1. The number of adults who are sharing living quarters
with an unrelated adult of the opposite sex has
a) decreased substantially over the
past 30 years
b) increased substantially over the
past 30 years
c) stabilized over the past 30 years
d) increased minimally over the past
30 years.
2. Living together as an alternative to marriage
a) allows for the elimination of traditional
gender roles
b) eliminates many of the probems
found among married couples
c) does not provide women with any
real benefit over marriage
d) reduces the level of interpersonal
violence in a couple
3. Olson's research on marriage demonstrated that
a) there is a general marital happiness
factor, on which people can be rated from high to low
b) the majority of couples could best
be described as "extremely happy" in their marriages
c) there are several dimensions of
marital happiness, and few people score highly on all of them
d) cohabiting couples express substantially
higher relationship satisfaction than do married couples
4. Researchers have found that having a first baby may
a) lead to an increase in the divorce
rate
b) have a stabilizing effect on marriages
c) lead to increased romantic intimacy
among couples
d) cause fathers to beome more heavily
immersed in their jobs
5. If a child has a working mother, he or she
a) tends to have less traditional
sex role concepts
b) is more likely to have retarded
cognitive development
c) is more positively affected if
the mother works because of financial necessity
d) is more likely to become a delinquent