Deck 4: Wedding Bells and After

Question 1

In 2005,what did the federal government do?

A) It used the "notwithstanding" clause to opt out of same-sex marriage.
B) It passed the Civil Marriage Act permitting same-sex marriage.
C) It passed the Adult Interdependent Relations Act, which applied to various close relationships.
D) It required all clergy to marry same-sex couples in spite of their beliefs.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following aspects of marriage is NOT governed by law?

A) who can perform the ceremony
B) relatives who cannot marry
C) the number of marriage partners
D) the location of the wedding ceremony

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What were peak times for weddings when Canada was an agricultural society?

A) Advent and Lent
B) June and September
C) June, July, and August
D) Christmas and New Year's

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In which part of the wedding ceremony do traces of the bride price appear?

A) bridesmaids, best man, and ushers
B) the honeymoon
C) the wedding ring
D) the white wedding gown

Question 5

Which of the following is a legal right gained through marriage?

A) the right to the matrimonial home
B) the right to have cars and other possessions made joint property
C) the right to have a child
D) the right to abuse your partner

Question 6

According to the text,in financial terms,what can be said about weddings?

A) They are a multi-billion dollar industry in Canada.
B) They cost the same in all parts of Canada.
C) They include only the cost of the ceremony and reception.
D) They cost less when couples are older and cohabiting.

Question 7

Which is NOT considered a legal right in marriage in Canada?

A) the right to be treated kindly
B) the right to consent to the sale of family assets
C) the right to use family assets
D) the right to expect sexual access to the spouse

Question 8

What is a marriage contract?

A) It is the contract implied when people marry each other.
B) It is usually drawn up by common-law spouses to protect their property rights.
C) It is a method of ensuring a fair division when a partner's financial situation changes.
D) It is a legal document that alters the effect of the law.

Question 9

According to the text,why are most marriage contracts drawn up?

A) in case one partner wants to cheat the other of his or her rights
B) in case partners want to opt out of the provisions of family law
C) so that the couple can get a divorce without legal hassles
D) so that custody of children will be decided if the couple divorce

Question 10

According to the text,in mainstream society,what does marriage involve?

A) becoming part of the wife's family
B) deciding to have children
C) isolation from extended family members
D) commitment to a new family system

Question 11

According to the text,how were relationships affected by the Great Depression?

A) Marriages were often delayed.
B) Marriages occurred at a younger age.
C) The number of marriages increased.
D) Unmarried cohabitation increased greatly.

Question 12

Before World War II,there was a double peak in marriages during June and September.According to the text,what did this probably reflect?

A) the agricultural basis of society
B) the fact that the Roman Catholic church discouraged marriages during Lent
C) vacation patterns in an industrial society
D) the fact that summer was a time everyone was out of town

Question 13

According to the text,what is one problem with a marriage contract?

A) It can impose an unfair settlement on the couple.
B) It allows one partner to deceive another over property.
C) It presupposes the couple will separate.
D) It fails to protect the business interests of either person.

Question 14

According to the text,nowadays,what is a common criterion of adulthood?

A) getting married
B) supporting oneself financially
C) having a child
D) living with a partner

Question 15

According to the text,what are the most important aspects of a cohabitation agreement?

A) sexual rights and property rights
B) rights to sexual faithfulness and the right to be treated kindly
C) support rights and investment rights
D) property rights and support rights

Question 16

According to the text,which of the following is NOT a reason for drawing up a cohabitation agreement?

A) the couple is gay or lesbian
B) to protect against future changes in the law
C) to prearrange a divorce settlement
D) to protect property and support rights

Question 17

A wedding ceremony has serious functions.According to the text,what is one of these functions?

A) permission for the newly married couple to have sexual relations
B) public acknowledgment that a new family has been created legally
C) reciprocating all the invitations the couple and their family received in the past
D) acceptance of the fact the partners have been cohabiting

Question 18

What legal rights do same-sex couples have in Canada?

A) They have no rights.
B) They can require a church to marry them.
C) They have recently gained the right to marry legally.
D) They have rights only under a cohabitation agreement.

Question 19

Darren is a partner in a small business.In order to protect the business if he should die or divorce,what can he draw up to exclude the business from marital property?

A) a partnership contract
B) a cohabitation agreement
C) a marriage contract
D) an exclusionary statement

Question 20

How do we know that couples have a right to sexual access to each other?

A) Refusing to have sex with your partner can be grounds for divorce.
B) A person cannot be charged with sexually assaulting a spouse.
C) Having sexual relations with another person can be grounds for divorce.
D) A person can legally stop supporting a spouse who refuses sexual relations.

Question 21

Following marriage,what must a couple do in terms of their relationships with relatives and friends according to the text?

A) renegotiate
B) forfeit
C) fight over
D) recommit to

Question 22

According to the text,what do critics say about polygamy?

A) It devalues women.
B) It lets women avoid housework.
C) It encourages later marriages.
D) It cheapens marriage.

Question 23

Mark has a high-level job and Gillian has important political connections through her family.Why might others suspect that they married?

A) to increase their status
B) because they are very romantic
C) to make beautiful babies
D) to provide a sense of identity

Question 24

According to the text,what do Italian and East Indian cultures place more emphasis on than the majority society?

A) couple autonomy
B) voluntary childlessness
C) the extended family
D) intermarriage

Question 25

According to the text,when homesteaders went west,how was marriage perceived?

A) It was a luxury few people could afford.
B) It provided mainly for the spouses' emotional needs.
C) It gave a man, in particular, a sense of identity.
D) It helped ensure physical and economic survival.

Question 26

The marriage ideal has changed in recent years.According to the text,how is it now seen?

A) as the principal career and greatest fulfillment for a woman
B) as a partnership with male and female roles clearly separated
C) as mainly a setting in which to raise children
D) as a source for self-fulfillment and emotional growth

Question 27

Which of the following is NOT usually a reason for marriage nowadays?

A) We are socialized to believe that marriage is a "natural" state for adults.
B) Marriage provides couples with an enforceable trust.
C) Marriage is regarded as a principal career for most women.
D) For certain cohorts, social life tends to be organized on a couples basis.

Question 28

According to the text,where does the idea that marriage helps look after the emotional needs of the partners arise from?

A) cooperation to ensure physical survival
B) use of contraceptives to free up sexual activity
C) the implied enforceable trust
D) the idea of romantic love

Question 29

In Aboriginal societies,what were the roles?

A) Couples usually did all chores together, such as hunting game and gathering berries.
B) Women usually prepared and preserved food, and made clothing and household equipment.
C) Couples looked after their own needs, but not those of other community members.
D) Men provided most of the calories consumed by the extended family group.

Question 30

According to the text,why do couples marry when the functions considered a part of marriage can be met in other ways?

A) Marriage provides "an enforceable trust"
B) People who are married are considered socially superior
C) Marriage is a way to guarantee sexual fidelity
D) Extended families place a great deal of pressure on dating and cohabiting couples.

Question 31

In Aboriginal societies worldwide,who usually provided the most calories for the family and controlled the actual sharing of food?

A) women
B) men
C) a council of elders
D) grandfathers

Question 32

According to the text,which of the following is NOT usually considered a task of a newly married couple?

A) depending first on each other for satisfaction of their needs
B) learning to accept their roles of husband and wife
C) gaining a sense of identity as a family
D) renewing emotional ties with the family of origin

Question 33

According to the text,what does marriage give couples nowadays?

A) the right to practise serial monogamy without penalty
B) financial support for women and personal care for men
C) a much greater chance for happiness than cohabitation does
D) a legal and social status not gained through cohabitation

Question 34

According to the text,in the past,which of the following was NOT considered a primary purpose of marriage?

A) an opportunity for emotional growth
B) a means of economic survival
C) a method of regulating sexual behaviour
D) a setting in which to raise children

Question 35

In the past,marriage was often entered into for economic benefit.According to the text,what happens nowadays?

A) People hardly ever consider financial factors before marrying.
B) Marriage may make financial sense to some individuals.
C) Marriage for money reasons occurs only in Third World countries.
D) Financial factors should make no difference to the decision to marry.

Question 36

According to the text,what do many couples in Canada practise?

A) Islamic polygamy
B) the ultimate feminist lifestyle
C) serial polygamy
D) commune marriage

Question 37

According to the text,why might intermarriage make adjustment more difficult than usual for a couple?

A) They will need to adapt to the norms of a patriarchal culture.
B) They will have to reconcile the expectations of their different cultures.
C) They will be unable to deal with issues concerning their "we-ness."
D) They will have communication problems because they don't speak English.

Question 38

According to the text,which is NOT an argument favouring marriage?

A) It permits higher levels of female employment.
B) Developing a family identity can give a sense of purpose to life.
C) It provides a stable environment for raising children.
D) Marriage provides an enforceable trust.

Question 39

According to the text,in the past,why was it considered important that a bride be a virgin?

A) being a virgin was a sign of a woman's purity and devotion to her husband
B) to ensure that land was inherited only by biological descendants of the husband
C) to ensure she did not have more sexual experience than her new husband
D) to ensure that she hadn't previously had children

Question 40

According to the text,what happened in the traditional family of the past?

A) Higher levels of employment allowed single mothers to raise children.
B) Marriage provided an identity for the wife.
C) Childbearing became separated from sexual activity.
D) It didn't matter if the woman had premarital sexual experience.

Question 41

According to the text,in Upper Canada,before 1859,how were assets viewed?

A) Men had financial power because they brought large dowries into marriage.
B) A wife was endowed with all her husband's worldly goods at marriage.
C) A husband had total control of the couple's money and property.
D) A woman could leave her property to anyone she chose in her will.

Question 42

Satish and Mary Lynn feel they both need to work in order to have a decent standard of living.According to the text,if they are like most couples,who is most likely to stay home with their nine-year-old son when he is ill?

A) Satish, because men are usually considered responsible for their families
B) Mary Lynn, because women are usually considered caregivers
C) both Satish and Mary Lynn, taking turns because it is fair
D) no one because their son is old enough to leave alone

Question 43

According to the text,what occurs in a marriage with conventional roles?

A) There is a breadwinner husband and homemaker wife.
B) Both partners work and share household chores.
C) Both partners are dedicated to their careers and often purchase household services.
D) There is a breadwinner wife and homemaker husband.

Question 44

By 2006,what percentage of married women aged 25 to 44 in Canada were employed?

A) just under 97 percent
B) just over 77 percent
C) about 50 percent
D) nearly 63 percent

Question 45

According to the text,after the Second World War and prior to the 1970s,how was women's work usually regarded?

A) as essential for family economic survival
B) as a way to keep purchasing power from declining
C) as something to help buy luxuries for the family
D) as impossible because there was no daycare

Question 46

According to the text,what is NOT a disadvantage to the conventional role model of marriage?

A) a lower standard of living
B) expertise because of specialized roles
C) women's desire for adult companionship
D) lack of security for women

Question 47

In early 20ᵗʰ-century rural Quebec,what was true of married life?

A) The son who would inherit the farm usually brought his wife to live with his parents.
B) The son who would inherit the farm usually built a new house on the property for his family.
C) Women spent their time helping men with crops and caring for large animals.
D) Men managed family finances, because women had no share of property after marriage.

Question 48

According to the text,what were the gender roles in early 20th-century rural Quebec?

A) There was a clear division between men's and women's roles.
B) Men regularly cared for the daily needs of family members.
C) The wife became the financial administrator because the husband did not have time.
D) The husband moved in with the wife's family because he would inherit the farm.

Question 49

According to the text,what is the most common pattern in marriage today?

A) Both partners work and share household responsibilities.
B) Both partners focus on their own careers.
C) Men are homemakers and women support the family financially.
D) Women are homemakers and men are wage-earners.

Question 50

How does the structural-functional viewpoint regard roles?

A) In societies where status and power is granted to men, women are exploited.
B) There are trade-offs between men's and women's roles that benefit both of them.
C) Families provide for the well-being of the family through emotional support and encouragement.
D) The family ensured survival of its members through separate roles for men and women.

Question 51

Which of the following is NOT true regarding life for Aboriginal peoples once the reserve system was established?

A) They could not follow their seasonal migratory patterns.
B) Men, rather than women, lost their family roles.
C) Survival depended on accepting the ways of the colonists or accepting handouts.
D) Women, more than men, lost their family roles.

Question 52

According to the text,what is one advantage of conventional roles in marriage?

A) Housework tends to be done alone.
B) There can be specialization in roles.
C) A woman takes her status from her husband.
D) There is one wage earner.

Question 53

Brad and Laurel are planning their wedding.Compared to their grandparents' marriage,what do they probably expect that their marriage will be?

A) more patriarchal
B) more masculine
C) more democratic
D) more traditional

Question 54

According to the text,what did the money basis of 19th-century English-Canadian society do?

A) It gave the wife more power in the family than her husband.
B) It created equality between spouses through the man's earnings and the woman's dowry.
C) It did not affect the relationship between men and women.
D) It gave the husband more power in the family than his wife.

Question 55

According to the text,what happens when the demands of paid work and family care conflict?

A) Men experience burnout because they try to do everything.
B) Women tend to feel guilty no matter what they do.
C) Men usually stay home to look after a sick child.
D) Women cut loose from their responsibilities.

Question 56

According to the text,which of the following is NOT usually regarded as a reason for greater equality in marriage?

A) women's employment outside the home
B) the effect of two world wars
C) inflation during the 1970s and 1980s
D) the importance of men as caregivers

Question 57

According to the text,what was one outcome of the acceptance of the "traditional" family?

A) women's employment
B) the baby boom
C) smaller families
D) the homemaker husband

Question 58

When men do household chores,there appears to be a hierarchy,with men doing more lower-level than higher-level ones.Which chores are men most likely to do?

A) laundry
B) meal preparation
C) dishes
D) cleaning the house

Question 59

Before 1859,what were women's rights in Upper Canada?

A) Women had rights to all property brought into the marriage.
B) Women lost any right to money they earned when they married.
C) Women could bequeath their property to anyone they chose.
D) Women could leave their property only to their husbands and children.

Question 60

According to the text,who tends to be responsible for tasks like buying groceries and doing dishes?

A) husbands
B) wives
C) both husband and wife equally
D) older children

Question 61

What have studies shown about cohabiting couples,when compared with legally married ones?

A) Cohabitors are less likely to separate or divorce.
B) Cohabitors are more likely to separate after five years of marriage.
C) Cohabitors are more likely to separate if they cohabited more than once.
D) Cohabitors are more committed when they eventually marry.

Question 62

According to the text,what problem occurs as a result of the declining separation of men's and women's domains in family life?

A) role choice
B) dual-career roles
C) role cycling
D) role overload

Question 63

According to the text,what is a marriage said to have when both partners are equally committed to their employment?

A) reverse conventional roles
B) dual-career roles
C) shared roles
D) conventional roles

Question 64

According to some studies,how do cohabitors compare to married couples?

A) Cohabitors report poorer quality relationships.
B) Cohabitors are less likely to want children.
C) Cohabitors share housework more equally.
D) Cohabitors tend to be less violent toward their partners.

Question 65

What is it called when a couple lives together without marrying?

A) coupling
B) mating
C) cohabitation
D) adultery

Question 66

Who are most likely to enter a common-law union?

A) recent immigrants in Toronto
B) never-married Albertans
C) Quebec francophones
D) Sikhs in Vancouver

Question 67

What have studies shown about cohabiting couples,when compared with legally married ones?

A) Cohabitors are happier because they choose to stay together.
B) Cohabitors are not as committed to their relationship.
C) Cohabitors are less likely to experience violence in their union.
D) Cohabitors are less likely to have an affair with an outsider.

Question 68

According to the text,among which of the following does infidelity occur LEAST often?

A) among women after many years of marriage
B) among men with an opportunity for an undisclosed encounter
C) among individuals who have been married three years
D) among men and women who are cohabiting

Question 69

According to the text,what happens to homosexual individuals who marry members of the opposite sex?

A) They often marry for the same reasons heterosexual couples do.
B) They do not exist because gays and lesbians do not marry straight people.
C) They usually tell their spouse of their orientation before marriage.
D) They always separate soon after they marry.

Question 70

Earlier studies of cohabitation suggested that living together before marriage affects the quality of the marital relationship for the worse.According to the text,what is one reason for questioning this conclusion?

A) These studies lumped together homosexual and heterosexual cohabitors.
B) Cohabiting couples develop problem-solving skills prior to marriage.
C) Premarital sex and cohabitation have become part of normal courtship.
D) Couples who separated before marriage weren't included in studies.

Question 71

According to the text,who is more likely to approve of unmarried cohabitation?

A) older married women
B) born-again Christians
C) women planning to have large families
D) those whose parents divorced

Question 72

Which factor is probably NOT a reason that a woman who wants to be a homemaker enters the labour force?

A) the stability of her marriage
B) job opportunities
C) how rewarding she considers homemaking
D) her partner's earning ability

Question 73

According to the text,how might former cohabiting partners claim a share of assets they have built up over the years?

A) by proving in court that they contributed to gaining such assets
B) as a matter of course because they are married in common law
C) by showing that they will be in financial need without a share
D) by proving they have a relationship of some permanence

Question 74

According to the text,what can juggling career,children,marriage,and household responsibilities lead to?

A) role overload
B) role choice
C) role cycling
D) role expectations

Question 75

Why is it difficult to make general statements about cohabiting couples?

A) Sociologists have hardly ever studied cohabitors.
B) Cohabitation includes a wide variety of relationships.
C) The 2001 Census did not ask about cohabitation.
D) Many cohabitors don't tell the truth in interviews.

Question 76

Malcolm is a writer who works at home and looks after the house while his wife earns a regular salary.Which of the following BEST describes this arrangement?

A) It is more common in times of economic hardship.
B) It is usually long term for most couples.
C) It is associated with more stigma than in the past because of the current emphasis on the male provider role
D) It is unwelcome at first for many men, but then is a source of pleasure.

Question 77

According to the text,where is unmarried cohabitation most common?

A) Quebec
B) Newfoundland
C) Alberta
D) Saskatchewan

Question 78

What rights do cohabiting couples have?

A) They are equal in all ways to those who are married.
B) They do not have the same property rights as married couples.
C) They cannot expect to receive child support if they separate.
D) They share property equally if they separate.

Question 79

According to the text,in Quebec,what happens to marriages following cohabitation?

A) They end in divorce more often than marriages without prior cohabitation.
B) They are more stable than marriages without prior cohabitation.
C) They face greater risk of separation if the partners cohabited only once.
D) They are at the same risk of disruption as marriages entered directly.

Question 80

According to the text,when are arrangements in families with dual-career roles most likely to break down?

A) when the wife receives a big promotion
B) when the husband has to work long overtime hours
C) when the couple has a child
D) when the couple tries to divide up chores