Week 10 Quiz

Which statement gives the course's cross-cultural definition of marriage?

Select one.

• A socially recognized union that creates rights and obligations between the partners and between their families
• A private promise between two partners that needs no recognition from their families, their friends, or anyone else
• A union that takes the same form, with the same rules, in every society
• A legal contract that only a modern state's courts can create

An illustrative community has a rule that a person may not marry anyone from their own clan. What kind of rule is that?

Select one.

• Endogamy, because the rule is about the clan the person belongs to
• Exogamy, because it requires marrying outside one's own group
• Polyandry, because it limits whom a wife may marry
• Neolocal residence, because the couple must leave the clan

Which statement describes bridewealth as the course defines it?

Select one.

• A price the groom's kin pay the bride's family to buy a wife, which ends the bride's ties to her own kin
• Goods passed from the bride's family, often to the couple or the groom's family
• Goods from the groom's kin to the bride's kin, recognizing a transfer of rights and binding two families
• Work the groom does for the bride's family for a time

True or false: four illustrative roommates who share rent, meals, and groceries form a household even though none of them is related by birth or marriage.

True or false.

• True
• False

Week 6 taught that a gift carries three obligations: to give, to receive, and to give back. How does that idea explain why a marriage exchange binds two families?

Select one.

• It is market exchange at a posted price, so the two families part ways and owe nothing once it is paid in full
• It is free of obligation, so the families owe each other nothing afterward
• It is redistribution, so a central office collects the goods and gives them out
• Once one family gives and the other receives, each owes the other, so the tie lasts after the wedding

The course's exchange set lists a wedding gift registry as a borderline case. Why does the course discuss it but never key it as one exchange type?

Select one.

• It can be read as gifts that create obligations or as a purchase list, and each reading has a strong case
• It is redistribution, because the couple collects the gifts and gives them out to the guests
• It is negative reciprocity, because the guests try to get more than they give
• It is bridewealth, because the gifts pass from the groom's kin to the bride's kin

An illustrative marriage joins one wife and two husbands at the same time. Which term names this form?

Select one.

• Polygyny, because more than two people share the marriage at the same time
• Polyandry, a form of polygamy with one wife and several husbands
• Monogamy, because the wife has one marriage
• Endogamy, because the spouses live in one household

In the illustrative kinship set, ego's father (F) married ego's mother (M). Under matrilocal residence, near whom would ego's parents live?

Select one.

• Near FF and FM, the husband's father's kin
• Near FMB, the husband's mother's brother
• Near MM's kin, which in the set means MM and MF
• In a new home apart from both sets of grandparents

In the illustrative kinship set, suppose the society were patrilineal and ego's parents followed patrilocal residence, so M lives near FF and FM. To which patrilineage does M belong?

Select one.

• Ego's patrilineage, because she lives near FF and FM
• FM's patrilineage, because she lives with her mother-in-law
• No patrilineage, because women do not belong to descent groups
• Her own father's (MF's) patrilineage, because residence does not change descent

At the illustrative market's family-run stall, the son and his wife moved onto the family farm after they married (patrilocal in the model's terms), and the daughter and her husband live in town (neolocal). What percent of these 2 second-generation couples are patrilocal?

Select one.

• About 33 percent, because 1 ÷ 3 × 100 is about 33
• 50 percent, because 1 ÷ 2 × 100 = 50
• 100 percent, because the farm came from the husband's side
• 25 percent, because 1 ÷ 4 × 100 = 25