Choose the best answer.

1		According to Edmund Leach, marriage can accomplish all of the following, except:
			A)	give either or both spouse a monopoly in the other's sexuality.
			B)	establish an arbitrary and meaningless bond between both spouses and their families.
			C)	establish a socially significant relationship between spouses and their families.
			D)	establish the legal father of a woman's children and the legal mother of a man's children.
			E)	give either or both spouses rights over the other's property.
2		Which of the following statements about berdaches is not true?
			A)	Berdaches are biological males who have assumed many of the gender roles assigned to women.
			B)	Berdaches are sometimes married men.
			C)	Berdaches fill the wifely role when they marry.
			D)	Berdaches are used in the textbook as an example of one of the shortcomings of same-sex marriage.
			E)	Several Native American groups have berdaches.
3		Which of the following is not true about the Hopi of the American Southwest?
			A)	Hopi marriages are unstable.
			B)	Hopi women are secure in their home and land ownership.
			C)	There are many formal barriers to divorce.
			D)	There are conflicting loyalties to matrikin versus spouse.
			E)	In Hopi families the kids stay with the mother.
4		Which of the following is your cross cousin?
			A)	your mother's sister's daughter
			B)	father's brother's daughter
			C)	your mother's brother's son
			D)	your mother's sister's son
			E)	your father's brother's daughter
5		Which of the following is your parallel cousin?
			A)	your mother's brother's daughter
			B)	your mother's sister's son
			C)	your father's sister's daughter
			D)	your mother's brother's son
			E)	your father's sister's son
6		What of the following is not cited in the textbook as evidence to refute the idea that incest horror is instinctive?
			A)	The use of fire is a cultural universal, but it is not instinctive.
			B)	If it were instinctive, the incest taboo would be the same in all human populations.
			C)	If it were instinctive, we would not need cultural rules to forbid it.
			D)	The incest taboo in humans is identical to the incest taboo found in chimpanzee populations.
			E)	What is considered to be incest differs around the world.
7		What is endogamy?
			A)	It refers to the rules that dictate marriage outside a group to which a person belongs.
			B)	It is synonymous with cross cousin marriage.
			C)	It refers to the rules that dictate marriage within a group to which a person belongs.
			D)	It refers to forbidden sexual relations with a close relative.
			E)	It refers to the custom by which the children of two brothers or two sisters marry.
8		Which of the following statements about India's caste system is not true?
			A)	It is an extreme example of endogamy.
			B)	A man who has sex with a lower-caste woman cannot restore his ritual purity.
			C)	Occupational specialization often sets off one caste from another.
			D)	Contact with a member of the untouchable caste is considered defiling.
			E)	The castes are endogamous, but many are internally subdivided into exogamous lineages.
9		Which of the following statements about royal incest in traditional Hawaii is not true?
			A)	It functioned to downplay status differences between individuals.
			B)	It functioned to limit conflicts about succession.
			C)	Royal incest concentrated mana in the chiefly lineage.
			D)	It reduced the number of royal heirs.
			E)	It functioned to keep the royal estate intact.
10		Which of the following statements about dowry is not true?
			A)	Dowry exists in more cultures than bridewealth does.
			B)	Dowry is the exchange of gifts from the bride and her kin to the groom and his kin.
			C)	Dowry tends to be practiced in societies with low female status.
			D)	A woman's dowry is supposed to compensate the groom's kin for the added burden of being responsible for the bride.
			E)	In India, women are sometimes murdered when the groom's family considers the dowry insufficient.
11		Which of the following statements about bridewealth is not true?
			A)	Bridewealth exists in more cultures than dowry does.
			B)	As the value of bridewealth increases, marriages become more stable.
			C)	The bridewealth compensates the bride's kin for the loss of her companionship and labor.
			D)	Bridewealth is the exchange of gifts from the bride and her kin to the groom's kin.
			E)	Bridewealth is sometimes called progeny price.
12		Which of the following statements about divorce is not true?
			A)	Divorce is more common in matrilineal than in patrilineal societies.
			B)	Divorce is more common in modern Western society than it was a century ago.
			C)	As the value of the dowry increases, the likelihood of divorce increases.
			D)	Divorces tend to increase after wars.
			E)	Divorces tend to decrease when times are bad economically.
13		What is serial monogamy?
			A)	Serial monogamy is synonymous with polygyny.
			B)	Serial monogamy is the kind of plural marriage that is found in foraging societies.
			C)	Serial monogamy is the kind of plural marriage found in big man societies.
			D)	Serial monogamy is synonymous with polyandry.
			E)	Serial monogamy is when an individual has more than one wife, but never more than one at the same time.
14		Which of the following statements about polygyny is not true?
			A)	Even in societies where polygyny is practiced, most men are monogamous.
			B)	Polygyny can play an important role in the economic standing of a household, but it has little to do with political functions.
			C)	The custom of men marrying later in life than women promotes polygyny.
			D)	The number of wives is an indicator of a man's household productivity and social position.
			E)	Widows often make up a large number of the women involved in plural marriages.
15		Which of the following statements about polyandry is true?
			A)	Most polyandrous societies are found in Polynesia.
			B)	Polyandry is more common than polygyny.
			C)	Polyandry is often a cultural adaptation to female mobility associated with trade or military operations.
			D)	Polyandry reduces the amount of land fragmentation between generations by limiting the number of wives and heirs.
			E)	Polyandry increases the amount of land fragmentation between generations by increasing the number of wives and heirs.