MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.Within a marriage, which type of needs to most adults
NOT
try to fulfill?
a.physical
b.psychological
c.material
d.sexual
2.A good marriage acts as a ____ against mental health problems such as alienation, loneliness, unhappiness, and depression.
a.barrier
b.buffer
c.cure
d.function
3.Married men have longer life expectancies than:
a.single men.
b.single women.
c.married women.
d.cohabitating men and women.
4.Marriage increases the likelihood that fathers will:
a.have good relationships with their children.
b.have children with greater chance of divorce.
c.have a greater impact than mothers.
d.have shortened life expectancies.
5.Children who grow up with two biological and successfully married parents are more likely to:
a.be more popular.
b.be overweight.
c.have better physical health.
d.get divorced themselves.
6.Boys raised in single-parent homes:
a.have similar outcomes to boys raised in two-parent homes.
b.are twice as likely to commit a crime leading to incarceration by the time they reach their early 30s.
c.have greater risks of problems than boys raised in stepfamilies.
d.are better off than girls in single-parent homes.
7.All of the following tasks are associated with the transition to married life
EXCEPT:
a.living within a prescribed budget.
b.developing new relationships with parents.
c.shifting from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
d.learning to do leisure activities on the spur of the moment.
8.According to Wallerstein, one of the essential tasks of happily married couples is to:
a.reach an agreement about marital expectations.
b.establish pleasurable sexual relationships.
c.adjust to the constant demands of in-laws.
d.become a team that pulls together.
9.Excessive workplace and family obligations can make it difficult for married couples to:
a.develop a definition of marital success.
b.establish pleasurable sexual relationships.
c.react to their perceptions of the world.
d.understand their unconscious marital expectations.
10.The best way to characterize the transition from singlehood to marriage is:
a.from chaotic change to stagnant reality.
b.from the simplicity of singlehood to the complexity of marriage.
c.from the self-centeredness of childhood to the other-centeredness of adulthood.
d.from a system of individual expectations to one of individual actions.