Among the most important of the earliest technologies that made large, agrarian based societies ...

Among the most important of the earliest technologies that made large, agrarian based societies possible was
 
  a. language.
  b. plows and irrigation systems.
  c. modern warfare tactics.
  d. roads.

Question 2

Which of the following statements about the family life cycle is NOT true?
 
  a. Most couples go through all of the stages of the family life cycle.
  b. There is growing acceptance of cohabitation as a stage of family formation.
  c. The stages of the family life cycle are useful as indicators of change.
  d. The typical family life cycle is becoming more difficult to identify.

Question 3

Villages and cities arose originally in order to
 
  a. centralize trade.
  b. defend agricultural surpluses and house nonagrarian class members.
  c. enhance political control.
  d. coordinate hunting and gathering efforts.

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a stage in the family life cycle of conventional families, as proposed by Glick?
 
  a. divorce
  b. empty nest
  c. family formation
  d. start of childbearing

Question 5

Labor in agrarian societies was determined by
 
  a. age.
  b. race.
  c. sex.
  d. status and class.

Question 6

Which of the following terms refers to a specific sequence of stages that families experience?
 
  a. family career
  b. family genealogy
  c. family life course
  d. family life cycle

Question 7

Agrarian societies
 
  a. demand new classes of people who are not food producers to exist.
  b. require an ever larger supply of land, resulting in conflicts over territory.
  c. create villages and small cities for defense and housing of nonagrarian classes.
  d. All of the above