QUIZ # 14
Love, Marriage, etc. in Early Adulthood

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