Question 1

Coresidential dating typically includes an intention to marry.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The cohabitation effect

Accepted Answer

A) is smaller among whites than among African Americans. 
B) is smaller among whites than among Hispanics. 
C) is smaller among African Americans and Hispanics than among whites. 
D) is similar regardless of race or ethnicity.

Question 3

Dan and Tricia dated only three months before deciding to move in together.They are very attracted to one another and their relationship is very intense.They would be classified as which type of cohabitors?

Accepted Answer

A) purposeful delayers 
B) accelerated cohabitants 
C) tentative cohabitants 
D) infatuated coresidents

Question 4

Cohabitation

Accepted Answer

A) reduces the risk of divorce. 
B) increases the risk of divorce. 
C) leads to beneficial marital outcomes. 
D) has the same effect on all racial and ethnic groups in predicting future divorce.

Question 5

Ben wants to get married, but not yet.He is busy now with school and still likes to "have a good time." Ben would be characterized as which type of single?

Accepted Answer

A) involuntary and temporarily unmarried 
B) voluntary and temporarily unmarried 
C) involuntarily unmarried 
D) resolved

Question 6

Matrimania casts marriage as the only way to achieve intimacy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Single women appear to have better psychological well-being than do single men.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Roughly _____ of those who remarry after a divorce cohabit before formally remarrying.

Accepted Answer

A) one-fourth 
B) half 
C) one-third 
D) 75 percent

Question 9

Between 1960 and 2008, rates of cohabitation in the United States

Accepted Answer

A) rose steadily. 
B) declined steadily. 
C) increased until the 1990s and then began to decline. 
D) remained the same.

Question 10

Compared to cohabiting couples, married couples tend to

Accepted Answer

A) have higher personal earnings than cohabiting couples. 
B) become less stable with the arrival of children. 
C) be less sexually monogamous. 
D) suffer less economically when breaking up.

Exam 9: Unmarried Lives: Singlehood and Cohabitation

Coresidential dating typically includes an intention to marry.

The cohabitation effect

Dan and Tricia dated only three months before deciding to move in together.They are very attracted to one another and their relationship is very intense.They would be classified as which type of cohabitors?

Cohabitation

Ben wants to get married, but not yet.He is busy now with school and still likes to "have a good time." Ben would be characterized as which type of single?

Matrimania casts marriage as the only way to achieve intimacy.

Single women appear to have better psychological well-being than do single men.

Roughly _____ of those who remarry after a divorce cohabit before formally remarrying.

Between 1960 and 2008, rates of cohabitation in the United States

Compared to cohabiting couples, married couples tend to