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Public and Private Families: An Introduction, 3/e
Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University

The History of the Family

True or False



1

A conjugal family unit includes a husband, wife, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and children.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
2

The practice of polyandry involves both husband and wife having more than one spouse.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
3

Prior to the 1750s, most families performed production, reproduction, consumption.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
4

Native American Indian tribes practiced matrilineality, not patrilineality.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
5

Families of the European colonists in America were more involved in private roles than in their public function.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
6

There was a sharp increase in divorce during the Great Depression.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
7

Mestizos are people whose ancestors included both Spanish settlers and Native Americans from Mexico.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
8

Between 1776 and 1830, white middle class families in the United States changed toward a system where marriage became based on affection rather than on authority and custom.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
9

The period of the 1950s was out of step with the rest of the twentieth century in terms of social patterns of marriage, childbearing, and divorce.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
10

One-half of married white women worked outside the home in the 1920s and 1930s.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE