Sex / Marriage - QUIZ
1.__________ is a transaction in which a woman and
man establish a continuing claim to the right of sexual
access to one another, and in which the woman
involved becomes eligible to bear children.
a.Family
b.Marriage
c.Incest
d.Affinity
e.Sex
2. The ability of females and males to have sex at
any time would have been advantageous to
early humans in that
a.they would be more successful at reproduction.
b.sexual activity and other factors operated to tie
people more closely to the social groups vital for
their survival.
c.it would lead to the development of cultural ideas
of pair bonding, and ultimately marriage.
d.it prevented homosexual behavior from being
apparent in cultures.
e.it gave them something to do.
3. In all cultures, the ___________ provides an
absolute prohibition on sexual contact between
certain kin, but the definitions of who constitute
close kin vary from culture-to-culture.
a.incest taboo
b.marriage vow
c.kin aversion rule
d.estrus prohibition
e.pair bond
4. Marriage within a particular group of
individuals is called
a.incest.
b.exogamy.
c.monogamy.
d.endogamy.
e.polygamy.
5. ___________ is a marriage in which an
individual has a single spouse.
a.Polygamy
b.Polygyny
c.Monogamy
d.Polyandry
e.Bigamy
6. Marriage to more than one husband is
called
a.monogamy.
b.polygyny.
c.polyandry.
d.serial marriage.
e.idiocy.
7. The levirate and the sororate
a.are secret societies, like sororities and
fraternities.
b.function to maintain the relationship between the
family of the bride and the family of the groom.
c.do not work if the surviving spouse was an only
child.
d.are types of cattle in pastoralist societies.
e.exist only in advanced industrial societies.
8. Serial monogamy is characterized by
a. a man or woman living with more than one
partner at the same time.
b. a woman being married to five brothers in the
same household.
c. a widower marrying his dead wife's sister.
d. several men and women having sexual access
to one another.
e.a man or a woman marrying or living with a
series of partners in succession (one after the
other but not at the same time).
9. An arranged marriage tends to be more
stable than one in which the partners
choose each other.
True
False
10. In many traditional Muslim societies, the
old ____________ law continues or has
been reinstated to regulate sexual activity.