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Higher Education

Foundations of Sociology: Chapter 13

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) At birth
b) At puberty
c) In middle age
d) At retirement

Question 2:


a) Ages 0–5
b) Ages 15–19
c) Ages 45–49
d) Ages 65+

Question 3:


a) 1940–1960
b) 1946–1964
c) 1949–1958
d) 1951–1966

Question 4:


a) Age 61
b) Age 71
c) Age 83
d) Age 93

Question 5:


a) Parsons
b) Marx and Engels
c) Postman
d) Kempe

Question 6:


a) Universalist
b) Constructionist
c) Relativist
d) Spiritualist

Question 7:


a) C. Henry Kempe
b) Jeffery Arnett
c) Philippe Aries
d) Michael Wyness

Question 8:


a) Undifferentiated accessibility
b) Present-centred media
c) Increased importance of literacy
d) Protection from the "mysteries of life"

Question 9:


a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) Fourth

Question 10:


a) Biology and anthropology
b) Sociology and psychology
c) Anthropology and biology
d) Sociology and anthropology

Question 11:


a) Jeffery Arnett
b) Rod Beaujot
c) Neil Postman
d) Margaret Mead

Question 12:


a) Undifferentiated socialization
b) Abusive socialization
c) Broad socialization
d) Narrow socialization

Question 13:


a) High marijuana use among adolescents
b) Strict separation between males and females after puberty
c) Casual attitudes toward premarital sex
d) Clear rites of passage between childhood and adolescence

Question 14:


a) Graduation
b) Marriage
c) Parenthood
d) All of the above

Question 15:


a) Retirement home staff
b) Sid's son
c) Fellow retirement home neighbours
d) Strangers to Sid who are visiting others at the retirement home

Question 16:


a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 17:


a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 18:


a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 19:


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b) FALSE

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b) FALSE

Question 21:


a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 22:


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b) FALSE

Question 23:


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b) FALSE

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a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 25:


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b) FALSE

Question 26:


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b) FALSE

Question 27:


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b) FALSE

Question 28:


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b) FALSE

Question 29:


a) TRUE
b) FALSE

Question 30:


a) TRUE
b) FALSE