Multiple Choice Quiz

Read each question carefully and then select the best answer.

1		According to Rosanna Hertz (22 "Working to Place Family at the Center of Life: Dual-Earner and Single-Parent Strategies"), which of the following families were more likely to practice the "new parenting approach" to balancing work and family?
			A)	families in which both parents worked in middle-range managerial or professional positions
			B)	middle-class, single-mother families
			C)	dual-earner families in which the father was underemployed
			D)	both (a) and (c)
2		According to Rosanna Hertz (22 "Working to Place Family at the Center of Life"), couples who were from the middle class put their families ahead of their work because:
			A)	they shared an egalitarian outlook on the family.
			B)	their low wages necessitated two incomes.
			C)	they had to manage the lack of benefits from work.
			D)	their employers encouraged this behavior.
3		Rosanna Hertz (22 "Working to Place Family at the Center of Life") found that when working-class males experienced unemployment or underemployment:
			A)	they assumed many of the parenting responsibilities in the family.
			B)	traditional gender roles in the family were more prominent.
			C)	their wives found ways to work from home in order to take care of the children.
			D)	both parents found low-wage work and placed the children in daycare facilities.
4		In Rosanna Hertz's "Working to Place Family at the Center of Life" (22), a majority of the single mothers who chose to have a family by themselves:
			A)	felt work obligations were more important than their children.
			B)	made difficult sacrifices to balance work and family.
			C)	relied heavily on government subsidies to sustain their families.
			D)	all of the above
5		In Denise Segura's "Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Mothers and Employment" (23), in which of the following two categories did Mexicana women predominate?
			A)	involuntary nonemployed mothers / ambivalent employed mothers
			B)	voluntary nonemployed mothers / ambivalent employed mothers
			C)	involuntary nonemployed mothers / nonambivalent employed mothers
			D)	voluntary nonemployed mothers / nonambivalent employed mothers
6		According to Denise Segura (23 "Working at Motherhood"), how were Chicana mothers more likely than Mexicana mothers to feel about employment?
			A)	Chicana mothers were more likely to feel guilty or ambivalent about working.
			B)	Chicana mothers were more likely to feel empowered by their work.
			C)	Chicana mothers were more likely to feel that employment was a part of motherhood.
			D)	Chicana mothers were more likely to feel pressured by their husbands to work.
7		In Denise Segura's "Working at Motherhood" (23), how did husbands factor into Chicana and Mexicana mothers' decisions about work?
			A)	Husbands pressured their wives to work in order to contribute to the family.
			B)	Husbands who found secure jobs pressured their wives to stay home.
			C)	Husbands did not factor into these women's decisions to work.
			D)	The longer the husbands lived in the United States, the more likely they were to support their wives' work.
8		According to Denise Segura (23 "Working at Motherhood"), the Mexicana women who were recent immigrants to the United States were likely to:
			A)	have experienced feminism and thus choose to advance their own careers.
			B)	buy into the ideals of stay-at-home motherhood.
			C)	believe that working in paid employment is part of motherhood.
			D)	challenge the patriarchal structures of the family.
9		According to Hung Cam Thai (24 "For Better or Worse: Gender Allures in the Vietnamese Global Marriage Market"), which of the following is an example of people following the Vietnamese marriage gradient?
			A)	A Vietnamese-American man marries a non-Vietnamese woman in the Untied States.
			B)	A Vietnamese-American woman marries a man from Vietnam.
			C)	A Vietnamese woman marries a man of a higher class status.
			D)	A Vietnamese man with little education marries a highly educated Vietnamese woman.
10		According to Hung Cam Thai in "For Better or Worse (24), which of the following reasons explains why when women like Thanh marry men like Minh, the women are marrying up?
			A)	Gender matters, and because Thanh is a woman and Minh is a man, she is marrying up.
			B)	Because Minh has more education than Thanh, Thanh is marrying up.
			C)	Because Minh is from a first-world country while Thanh is from the third world, Thanh is marrying up.
			D)	Because Minh has a higher status position economically, Thanh is marrying up.
11		According to Hung Cam Thai (24 "For Better or Worse"), what is traditional about the global marriage of Minh and Thanh?
			A)	Minh has a higher socio-economic status than Thanh.
			B)	Minh and Thanh are planning to live in a multigenerational household.
			C)	Minh and Thanh's marriage was arranged by their families.
			D)	all of the above
12		According to Hung Cam Thai (24 "For Better or Worse"), what expectations regarding gender do women from Vietnam like Thanh have?
			A)	Thanh expects to live in a multigenerational household where she will work closely with the members of Minh's family.
			B)	Thanh hopes that Minh will respect her as traditional Vietnamese men respect their wives.
			C)	Thanh hopes to escape gender subordination by marrying a man from a modern country.
			D)	Thanh expects that Vietnamese men living anywhere will dominate their wives.
13		According to Hung Cam Thai (24 "For Better or Worse"), what makes Minh a less attractive marriage candidate in the United States?
			A)	Minh's family in Vietnam has a lower class status than most Vietnamese.
			B)	Minh's immigrant status makes him unattractive to Vietnamese women.
			C)	Few Vietnamese women want to marry a Vietnamese man.
			D)	Few Vietnamese-American women make less money than Minh.
14		According to Suzanna Danuta Walters (25 "Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages: Heterosexuals Imagine Gay Families, Gay Families Imagine Themselves"), which of the following is true about gay marriages on television?
			A)	Gay marriages on television look more like heterosexual weddings than gay ceremonies.
			B)	Gay marriages on television usually involve a homophobic character who ends up minimizing the reality of homophobia.
			C)	Most gay marriages on television focus on the straight characters rather than on the gay characters.
			D)	all of the above
15		Why does Suzanna Danuta Walters (25 "Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages") question the push for gay equality?
			A)	She feels this position does not challenge the dominant structures of patriarchy and heterosexism.
			B)	She fears that gays will be a threat to the structure of the family.
			C)	She believes that gays do not need equality because they have created alternative structures and do not live within the confines of the system.
			D)	She feels this position does not take into consideration the desires of gays to be in marriages or to have families.
16		In "Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages" (25), how does Suzanna Danuta Walters describe the reactions of some people when they saw her with her child?
			A)	They were appalled by a gay parent.
			B)	They ignored her status as a lesbian.
			C)	They focused on her gay identity and ignored the child.
			D)	Other lesbians were appalled that she would want children.
17		Which of the following is NOT an "assimilationist" argument, according to Suzanna Danuta Walters in "Wedding Bells and Baby Carriages" (25)?
			A)	Homosexuals and heterosexuals are the same.
			B)	Gay marriage will tame wild gay men.
			C)	Children with gay parents are no worse off than children of straight parents.
			D)	Gay families of choice create new ways of structuring love and responsibility.
18		In "A Member of the Funeral" (boxed insert), who does Nancy Naples consider to be her "real family"?
			A)	her extended biological family
			B)	her parents and siblings
			C)	her lover and herself
			D)	her intimate friends