The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is __________.
a. constitutional
b. unconstitutional
c. to be phased out within 10 years
d. inconsistent with the First Amendment
Question 2According to the United Nations, is the process of increasing the number of choices that people have so that they can lead life to its fullest and be able to take action for themselves to improve their lives.
a. life expectancy
b. life span
c. human development
d. global development
Question 3The simplest measure of mortality is the __________ rate.
a. crude death b. total death
c. death quota d. refined death
Question 4Most people in the United States tend to choose marriage partners who are similar to themselves. __________ refers to the pattern of individuals marrying those who have similar characteristics, such as race/ethnicity, religious background, age, education, or social class.
a. Monogamy
b. Exogamy
c. Homogamy
d. Polygamy
Question 5The average income per person in lower-income countries has __________ in the past thirty years.
a. remained the same b. decreased
c. doubled d. barely risen
Question 6The primary cause of world population growth in recent years has been a decline in __________, which is the incidence of death in a population.
a. the crude death rate b. mortality
c. the death quota d. the total death rate
Question 7In 2014, the crude birth rate in the United States was __________ per 1,000, as compared with an all-time high rate of 27.0 per 1,000 in 1947 (following World War II)., as compared with an all-time high rate of 27.0 per 1,000 in 1947 (following World War II).
a. 5.3
b. 10.4
c. 13.4
d. 17.6
Question 8__________ refers to a household arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a committed, sexually intimate relationship and is granted the same rights and benefits as those accorded to married heterosexual couples.
a. Secular marriage
b. Permanent cohabitation
c. Legal cohabitation
d. Domestic partnership
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