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Higher Education

Elements of Sociology: A Critical Canadian Introduction, Second Edition: Chapter 7

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) patrilineal
b) matrilineal
c) matriarchal
d) patriarchal

Question 2:


a) unrelated adults
b) children
c) no children
d) All of the above.

Question 3:


a) increasing
b) decreasing
c) steady
d) fluctuating

Question 4:


a) cast men as primary earners and breadwinners
b) cast women as primary earners and breadwinners
c) provide an inclusive and egalitarian perspective within the household
d) All of the above.

Question 5:


a) ‘marrying within one’s group’
b) ‘marrying outside of one’s group’
c) ‘approval of intergroup marriage’
d) None of the above.

Question 6:


a) The study of tradition and ritual within the family structure.
b) The notion that the single gene that is responsible for intelligence is absent in ‘stupid people’.
c) A psychological racism.
d) Both b and c.

Question 7:


a) the destruction of a group of people
b) the imposition of measures to prevent births
c) a scientific racism
d) Both a and b.

Question 8:


a) The removal of large numbers of Aboriginal children from their families.
b) A protest against Alberta’s Sexual Sterilization Act.
c) A magazine that promoted genocide in the 1960s.
d) None of the above.

Question 9:


a) True
b) False

Question 10:


a) True
b) False

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False