1. Marriage of father’s sister’s daughter is known as ____.
[A] Paternal cross-cousin marriage
[B] Maternal cross-cousin marriage
[C] Endogamy
[D] Polygamy
Answer is [A]
2. ___ is a form of marriage in which a man has more than one wife at a time.
[A] Polygamy
[B] Polygyny
[C] Polyandry
[D] Group-marriage
Answer is [B]
3. Under ____ one man marries one woman at a time.
[A] Monogamy
[B] Polygamy
[C] Companionate marriage
[D] None of the above
Answer is [A]
4. Marriage to mother’s brother’s daughter is known as
[A] Paternal cross-cousin marriage
[B] Maternal cross-cousin marriage
[C] Endogamy
[D] Polygamy
Answer is [B]
5. The marriage of one man with several sisters is called ___.
[A] Monogamy
[B] Polyandry
[C] Sororal polygyny
[D] Adelphic polygyny
Answer is [C]
6. ____ is the rule that restricts marriage to persons outside of specific groups.
[A] Exogamy
[B] Endogamy
[C] Incest taboo
[D] Levirate
Answer is [A]
7. Who has defined marriage as “a contract for the production and maintenance of children”?
[A] Malinowski
[B] Westermark
[C] Murdock
[D] Tylor
Answer is [A]
8. Among the following mark out the statement that gives proper meaning to marriage.
[A] It is a sustained effort from matrimony to mutuality for pleasure and sweetness
[B] It gives the wife family life and economic in life
[C] It is to aid the husband to achieve success in life
[D] It is a mating arrangement
Answer is [A]
9. Marriage gets social approval with the help of?
[A] Wealth
[B] Education
[C] Private property
[D] Social ceremonies
Answer is [D]
10. _____ is primarily a means of regularizing sex relations.
[A] Family
[B] Marriage
[C] Incest taboo
[D] Kinship
Answer is [B]
11. The institution of marriage these days has come under the heaviest strain from
[A] Democratic institutions
[B] Urbanization
[C] Religion
[D] Unreasonable attitude of men folk
Answer is [B]
12. Marriage of a man of high caste with a woman of lower caste is called
[A] Pratiloma marriage
[B] Anuloma marriage
[C] Hypergamy
[D] Concubinage
Answer is [C]
13. Which among the following is not an endogamist marriage?
[A] Marriage within the gotra
[B] Marriage within sapinda
[C] The caste marriage
[D] The inter-caste marriage
Answer is [D]
14. Which among the following is not a form of exogamy?
[A] Marriage within sapinda
[B] Marriage in the same gotra
[C] Marriage outside the sapinda
[D] Marriage within prohibited degrees
Answer is [C]
15. Which among the following characteristics is not essential to a family?
[A] Common habitation
[B] Mating relationship
[C] State regulation
[D] Form of marriage
Answer is [C]
16. Which among the following do you think is an important consideration for marriage?
[A] Sex relations
[B] Procreation
[C] Establishing a household
[D] All of the above
Answer is [D]
17. Which among the following named has described marriage as the “approved social pattern where by two more persons established a family”?
[A] Horton and Hunt
[B] Maclver
[C] Lundberg
[D] Arnold Green
Answer is [A]
18. In developing countries like India marriage is considered
[A] A friendship
[B] A religious institution
[C] More friendship and less religious institution
[D] More religious institution and less friendship
Answer is [B]
19. A type of marriage in which male members can have sexual relationship with any female member without social restriction is known as
[A] Endogamy
[B] Hypergamy
[C] Promiscuity
[D] Polygamy
Answer is [C]
20. The system under which a boy and a girl belonging to different castes are allowed to marry is known as
[A] Caste marriage
[B] Endogamy
[C] Exogamy
[D] Inter-caste marriage
Answer is [D]
21. Promiscuity is a type of marriage which is
[A] Quite common in all advanced societies
[B] Not in practice these days
[C] Found in all agricultural societies
[D] Found in economically backward families
Answer is [B]
22. According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the rule of marrying one’s mother’s brother daughter may only be expected in ____ families
[A] Matripotestal
[B] Extended
[C] Join
[D] Polyandrous
Answer is [A]
23. The institution of marriage cannot come to an end because
[A] It performs the basic function of procreation of children
[B] The people have become more romantic
[C] The people desire to lead a family life
[D] Every state feels that the people must marry
Answer is [A]
24. Which one of the following is not true of monogamy?
[A] It helps in the stability of family
[B] It promotes sense of unity and oneness
[C] In chances of conflict donot altogether exist
[D] There is smooth and health development of family members
Answer is [B]
25. Which one of the following is true of the origin of polyandry?
[A] People wanted to have a limited size family
[B] There was desire to have joint family system
[C] There was shortage of resources
[D] Women did not like to go out of home with their husbands
Answer is [B]
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