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Public and Private Families: An Introduction, 3/e
Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University

Cohabitation and Marriage

True/False Quiz

Please answer all questions



1

Marriages in Japan still follow the traditional pattern of being arranged by the parents of the young couple for economic and social reasons.
A)True
B)False
2

A key feature of the courtship process is its publicly visible aspect.
A)True
B)False
3

The social stage of adolescence has been recognized since the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States.
A)True
B)False
4

The rise of dating after 1900 placed courtship on an economic basis and transferred the power from young women and their families to young men.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
5

Young adults who live independently from parents or cohabit are more likely to return home than those young adults who have been married.
A)True
B)False
6

The marriage market perspective on mate selection assumes that love and romance are the major factors in selecting a spouse.
A)True
B)False
7

The specialization model of the marriage market would predict that women with less education and lower earnings would be less likely to marry than better educated women with higher earnings.
A)True
B)False
8

Cohabitation is more likely to be a substitute for marriage for African Americans than it is for whites, who are more likely to marry or separate from their cohabiting partner.
A)True
B)False
9

An increasing proportion of American Catholics since the 1970s have returned to the traditional teaching of the Church by rejecting contraception and divorce.
A)True
B)False
10

Recent data show that married men and women live longer and are generally healthier than unmarried men and women in the United States.
A)True
B)False