Test Your Marital IQ

 

1. Which was the LEAST traditional form of marriage in history?
A. Monogamy
B. Polygyny 
C. Serial marriage
D. Male breadwinner marriage
E. First cousin marriage

2. What was the most important function of marriage from Paleolithic times to the Early Modern Era?
A. To ensure that every child had a mother and father
B. To protect and provide for women and children
C. To ensure male dominance over women and children
D. All of the above
E. None of the above

3. Which of the following changes were NOT the long-term result of the adoption of no-fault divorce?
A. A rise in women’s poverty rates relative to men’s
B. A decline in wives’ suicide rates
C. A drop in the murder of husbands by wives
D. A decline in domestic violence

4. In 19th century America, at which age could an unmarried girl or woman legally consent to sex in the majority of states?
A. 7
B. 11
C 18
D. 21
E. Never

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