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Which of the following situations increases the risk of elder abuse?
 
  a. A caregiver to an older person also has a full-time job.
  b. A caregiver to an older person also cares for his or her young children.
  c. A caregiver to an older person has little help or support from other people.
  d. All of these responses are correct.

Question 2

The concept homogamy means that
 
  a. people marry because they benefit from being married.
  b. women usually marry older men.
  c. people marry others who are socially like themselves.
  d. most marriages are based on romantic love.

Question 3

Compared to poverty in the United States, poverty throughout the world as a whole is more widespread and more severe.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 4

__________ describes people who do not conform to culturally defined traditional gender roles associated with their own sex.
 
  a. Homosexuals
  b. Transvestites
  c. Transsexuals
  d. Hermaphrodites

Question 5

According to the text's discussion of transsexuals:
 
  a. transsexuals are people whose sex organs are of one sex and whose gender identity is of the opposite sex.
  b. compared to Western Europeans, Americans are less tolerant of those who violate gender norms.
  c. most people are puzzled by transsexuals because they do not see any contradictions between biological sex and gender identity.
  d. all of the above

Question 6

According to the text's discussion of Latinos in the U.S.:
 
  a. the machismo pattern actually frees men to at times engage in male-male sexual encounters.
  b. Latino women who take on a lesbian identity are doubly denounced.
  c. Latino women are expected to be submissive to men and remain virgins until marriage.
  d. all of the above

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