Multiple Choice Quiz

Read each statement carefully and then select the best answer.

1		A breadwinner earning minimum wage and working full time the year-round
			A)	earns a middle-class income.
			B)	earns enough to support a family of four at a working-class level.
			C)	has earnings that are still below the poverty level for a family of four.
			D)	is better off today than he/she would have been 30 years ago.
2		Working-class families
			A)	have jobs that usually require a college education.
			B)	have incomes that can provide for the basic needs of the family and little more.
			C)	have jobs that are at minimum wage with few benefits.
			D)	have jobs that allow them to amass large sums of savings and property.
3		The conjugal family is especially central for
			A)	the lower-class family.
			B)	the working-class family.
			C)	the middle-class family.
			D)	the upper-class family.
4		Which of the following is NOT true of women-centered kinship networks in lower-class families?
			A)	They help family members survive the hardships of poverty.
			B)	They are examples of created kinship.
			C)	They illustrate the reliance of the poor on assigned kinship.
			D)	They have the negative outcome of making it more difficult to rise out of poverty.
5		Which social class maintains the highest amount of parental control over choice of spouse?
			A)	lower class
			B)	working class
			C)	middle class
			D)	upper class
6		Which social class has the highest relative autonomy of the parent-child unit from other kin?
			A)	lower class
			B)	working class
			C)	middle class
			D)	upper class
7		All of the following have led to increases in married women's labor force participation in the last half of the twentieth century EXCEPT
			A)	stagnation of men's wages.
			B)	increased birthrates.
			C)	increase in the rate of divorce.
			D)	economic necessity.
8		Vertical kinship ties refer to
			A)	relations between grandparents, parents, and children.
			B)	extended family including siblings and their spouses.
			C)	created kinship ties.
			D)	blood relatives, but not marital relatives.
9		In general, the family structure today that is likely to be the most economically well off is
			A)	the single parent family.
			B)	the single-earner, two parent family.
			C)	the dual earner, two parent family.
			D)	There is no economic difference in the family types.
10		Which of the following is NOT a reason behind increases in income inequality of families?
			A)	growing inequality in earnings of men
			B)	growth of single parent families
			C)	more middle-class married wives in the labor force
			D)	more working-class wives in the labor force