Chapter 1: Four Aspects of
Premarital Guidance (p 7-16)
1. Andrew Greeley’s research found that the most common characteristic of
those who reported happy marriages is
a. financial stability.
b. having a college education.
c. keeping physically fit.
d. praying together.Chapter 2: Skills for Couple Care (p 17-32)
2. When Bill and Sarah did not think they needed six premarital sessions, Father Sam used the proclamation skills of
a. sharing and informing.
b. hunching and confronting.
c. confronting and contending.
d. contending and reviewing.
Chapter 3: Session Components and Topics (p 33-45)
3. When Wilma told Dr. Claretta Washington that it was difficult for her previous husband to accept her as a peer, Dr. Washington responded by
a. affirming her divorce from such an insecure husband.
b. suggesting a greater adherence to the Biblical teaching of submission.
c. helping Wilma understand how her lack of assertiveness had contributed to this problem.
d. changing the subject to her pending marriage to Rich.
4. Research pioneered by Gottman (1979,1989) and Markman
(1988,1993) indicates that the absence of ______ predicts failure in
marriage relationships in over 80% of couples.
a. financial management skills
b. disengagement from one’s family of origin
c. a positive attitude
d. communication skills and conflict resolution
5. Because of their many strengths, the author recommends ______ as
the best of the four methods for marriage preparation.
a. structured interviews
b. workbooks
c. premarital inventories
d. courses
Chapter 4: Common Couple Tasks (p 46-66)
6. Longevity in marriage relationships depends upon all the following EXCEPT
a. similar personalities
b. shared values
c. leaving and cleaving
d. conflict-resolution skills
7. Which of the following ethnic family backgrounds support the
greatest autonomy from one’s nuclear family (parents and children)?
a. Italian-American
b. white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
c. African-American
d. Hispanic-American
8. The chief purpose of companionship marriage is
a. role competence.
b. relational competence.
c. following societal rules.
d. providing society with children.
Chapter 5: Teaching Scripture Pastorally (p 67-82)
9. In the author’s exegesis of Ephesians 5:21-33, the lengthiest
treatment of the marital relationship in the New Testament, he
concludes that this passage
a. teaches a doctrine of mutual submission between a
husband and a wife.
b. made wives’ subjection voluntary in a society that required
it by law and custom.
c. also exhorted the husband to submit to his wife
which was the opposite of society’s values at that time.
d. all of the above.
Chapter 7: Reflections (p 99-102)
10. Father Sam hesitated with the idea of giving engaged couples
religious marriage preparations until
a. he learned about the research that showed the importance of
religiosity for longevity and happiness in marriage.
b. he was required to do this by his denominational authority.
c. he received enough pressure from religious partners about to marry non-religious partners.
d. he discovered how eager non-religious partners were willing to learn. |
