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This set of Social Anthropology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Marriage Set 2

Q1 | Dissolution of marriage is made difficult by
  • Religious sacrament
  • Religious festival
  • Religious celebration
  • Religious duty
Q2 | The marriage ceremony consists of a series of ritual
  • Lamentation
  • Performances
  • Sacrifices
  • Feast and sacrifice
Q3 | Female infanticide leads to scarcity of
  • Friends
  • Workers
  • Women
  • Population
Q4 | The most universal prohibition regarding marriage is the union between
  • Human and non-human
  • Blood relationship
  • Same age group
  • Similar talent
Q5 | Incest has been defined as the sexual transaction between
  • Parents relationship
  • Community relationship
  • Blood relationship
  • Animal relationship
Q6 | No one can deny that biological aim of marriage is the
  • Primary aim of society
  • Secondary aim of society
  • Regular aim of society
  • Independent aim of individual
Q7 | Social anthropologist believes that some sort of marriage institution is found in every
  • Human society
  • Linguistic society
  • Merchant society
  • Animal society
Q8 | In the evolution of marriage endogamy takes the
  • Third stage
  • Second stage
  • Fourth stage
  • First stage
Q9 | In food-gathering societies, the status of male and female is
  • Not equal
  • Almost equal
  • So much different
  • Not the issue
Q10 | Sagotra and Sapravara marriages are forbidden by
  • Muslim law
  • Christian marriage
  • Hindu Dharma Shastra
  • Buddhist law
Q11 | Family is an important and primary unit of any
  • Social organization
  • Religious organization
  • Cultural organization
  • Scientific organization
Q12 | It is the family which rears and brings up
  • Grand parents
  • Non family members
  • A child
  • Strangers.
Q13 | I.P Desai made a break through by stating that the Indian family essentially
  • Nuclear family
  • A joint family
  • Agricultural family
  • Traders family
Q14 | The family is a social group characterized by common
  • Language
  • Kitchen
  • Bank account
  • Residence
Q15 | The structure of the family varies from
  • Their colour of skin
  • Their occupation
  • Society to Society
  • House to house
Q16 | According to Strauss, the prime condition of a family is
  • Building
  • Family
  • Agricultural land
  • Forest
Q17 | True family is a Universal
  • Social Institution
  • Educational institution
  • Cultural institution
  • Religious institution.
Q18 | In bilateral family form, family descent is stressed from
  • Only mother
  • Both the parents
  • Only father
  • None of the above
Q19 | Family is universal institution and it is created to fulfill some basic needs of
  • Parents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Mankind
Q20 | In Social Anthropology, generally, when we talk about family, we have to look atit in the context of
  • Modern life
  • Medieval life
  • Rural life
  • Primitive life
Q21 | Talcott Parsons calls the nuclear family
  • Group of people
  • Isolated family
  • Small family
  • Traditional family
Q22 | Extended family consists of
  • Specific members
  • Community
  • A woman, her husband, children and married children
  • All the neighbors’ family
Q23 | Iravati Karve defines the joint family as where
  • All the members live under one roof
  • Members live in various houses
  • Members live elsewhere
  • Members do not have close relationship
Q24 | Matrilocal family is a family in which the marriage couple resides with
  • Brother’s family
  • Husband’s family
  • Uncle’s family
  • Wife’s family
Q25 | In Polyandrous family, a woman has
  • One husband
  • Several husbands
  • Two husbands
  • Limited husbands