Family, Marriage, Kinship and Gender MCQs 2026

Kinship terminology that uses the same term for father and father's brother reflects

1. A no kinship rules at all ✓
2. B only matrilineal descent ✓
3. C random naming ✓
4. D a bifurcate merging or classificatory system ✓

Patrilineal descent traces lineage through

1. A only the mother's line ✓
2. B the father's line ✓
3. C only the spouse's friends ✓
4. D only godparents ✓

Matrilineal descent traces lineage through

1. A the mother's line ✓
2. B only the father's line ✓
3. C only neighbours ✓
4. D only employers ✓

Bilateral descent recognizes kin through

1. A both mother's and father's sides equally ✓
2. B only paternal uncles ✓
3. C only maternal aunts ✓
4. D no ancestors ✓

Endogamy requires marriage

1. A always outside one's group ✓
2. B without any partner ✓
3. C only after age seventy ✓
4. D within one's own group ✓

Exogamy requires marriage

1. A outside one's own group ✓
2. B strictly within the same lineage only ✓
3. C without ceremony ✓
4. D only between identical twins ✓

Talaq in Islamic family law refers to

1. A mandatory polygamy ✓
2. B adoption ritual ✓
3. C divorce initiated by the husband ✓
4. D marriage contract signing ✓

Khula allows a wife to seek divorce by

1. A military conscription ✓
2. B returning haq mehr or negotiated consideration to the husband ✓
3. C automatic imprisonment of the husband ✓
4. D dissolving the nikah without any process ✓

Gender roles refer to

1. A socially constructed expectations attached to masculinity and femininity ✓
2. B only biological chromosomes ✓
3. C only genetic mutations ✓
4. D only astronomical signs ✓

Sex refers to biological attributes whereas gender refers to

1. A identical concepts with no difference ✓
2. B only clothing brands ✓
3. C socially constructed roles and identities ✓
4. D only government budgets ✓

Women empowerment in Pakistan includes measures such as

1. A prohibition of female literacy ✓
2. B quotas, education access and legal reforms for inheritance ✓
3. C ban on women's property rights ✓
4. D mandatory isolation from economy ✓

Domestic violence is sociologically understood as

1. A only stranger assault in public ✓
2. B patterned abuse of power within intimate relationships ✓
3. C only economic inflation ✓
4. D only sports rivalry ✓

Dowry (jahez) in South Asia often functions as

1. A mandatory gift only from groom to bride by law always ✓
2. B a tax collected by the UN ✓
3. C a type of agricultural fertilizer ✓
4. D goods or cash transferred from bride's family, sometimes causing financial strain ✓

Feminist sociology examines

1. A only male sports statistics ✓
2. B only mineral composition of rocks ✓
3. C how patriarchy shapes institutions and women's life chances ✓
4. D only naval ship design ✓

The functionalist view of family (Parsons) emphasizes

1. A socialization of children and stabilization of adult personalities ✓
2. B destruction of all kin ties ✓
3. C elimination of reproduction ✓
4. D rejection of any norms ✓

Conflict theory views the family as

1. A always harmonious with no tension ✓
2. B a site of power struggle and reproduction of inequality ✓
3. C unrelated to economics ✓
4. D free of patriarchy ✓

Symbolic interactionism studies family through

1. A only national GDP tables ✓
2. B only tectonic plates ✓
3. C only chemical equations ✓
4. D meanings, labels and everyday interaction between members ✓

Bridewealth (walwar) involves

1. A payment only from bride to groom's parents always ✓
2. B a university degree ✓
3. C transfer from groom's side to bride's kin upon marriage ✓
4. D a criminal fine ✓

Haq mehr is

1. A optional entertainment expense only ✓
2. B a mandatory gift from husband to wife at marriage in Islam ✓
3. C a tax to the state ✓
4. D a dowry to the husband's parents ✓

Joint family system in Pakistan typically features

1. A shared household expenses and authority of a senior patriarch ✓
2. B complete isolation of each nuclear unit ✓
3. C no kin contact ✓
4. D only institutional care ✓

Cousin marriage (bint al-am or parallel cousins) in Pakistan is

1. A common and socially preferred in many communities ✓
2. B legally banned everywhere ✓
3. C unknown in South Asia ✓
4. D only practiced in Antarctica ✓

The concept of purdah relates to

1. A industrial import tariffs ✓
2. B cryptocurrency mining ✓
3. C gendered spatial and veil norms limiting women's public visibility ✓
4. D mountain climbing only ✓

Liberal feminism primarily seeks

1. A abolition of all technology ✓
2. B return to pre-agricultural society ✓
3. C equal legal and political rights for women within existing institutions ✓
4. D rejection of all education ✓

Radical feminism locates women's oppression in

1. A only minor tax policy ✓
2. B patriarchy as a fundamental system of power ✓
3. C only weather patterns ✓
4. D only sports rules ✓

Marxist feminism links women's subordination to

1. A only lunar cycles ✓
2. B capitalism and unpaid domestic labour ✓
3. C only ocean tides ✓
4. D only coin collecting ✓

The Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act was passed in Pakistan at

1. A provincial level (e.g., Punjab 2016, Sindh 2013) ✓
2. B only federal level in 1900 ✓
3. C only by foreign courts ✓
4. D without any legislation anywhere ✓

Working women in Pakistan face the "double burden" meaning

1. A paid employment plus disproportionate housework and care ✓
2. B no household responsibilities ✓
3. C only leisure activities ✓
4. D exemption from all family duties ✓

Affinity refers to kinship ties created through

1. A only blood descent ✓
2. B only friendship at work ✓
3. C marriage ✓
4. D only school enrollment ✓

Consanguinity means kinship through

1. A only adoption paperwork ✓
2. B only neighbourly chat ✓
3. C only business contracts ✓
4. D shared blood or descent ✓

Sororal polygyny means marrying

1. A sisters as co-wives ✓
2. B only unrelated strangers ✓
3. C only men as co-husbands ✓
4. D only institutional guardians ✓

Levirate marriage requires a man to marry

1. A his deceased brother's widow ✓
2. B his daughter ✓
3. C his mother ✓
4. D his teacher ✓

Sororate marriage involves marrying

1. A the husband's brother only ✓
2. B the wife's sister if the wife dies or is barren ✓
3. C a random citizen ✓
4. D no one ✓

Female labour force participation in Pakistan remains

1. A the highest globally ✓
2. B zero by law ✓
3. C relatively low compared to many countries ✓
4. D equal for all genders in every sector ✓

Gender socialization begins

1. A only at retirement age ✓
2. B only after postgraduate study ✓
3. C in childhood through family, media and schools ✓
4. D never in any institution ✓

Intersectionality (Crenshaw) argues that

1. A only one axis of identity matters ✓
2. B race, class and gender oppressions interact and compound ✓
3. C identity is irrelevant to sociology ✓
4. D only economics exists ✓

The Benazir Income Support Programme targets women by

1. A funding only male landowners ✓
2. B providing cash transfers to female heads of poor households ✓
3. C paying cricket players only ✓
4. D subsidizing luxury imports ✓

Acid throwing attacks in Pakistan are often linked to

1. A university exam schedules ✓
2. B road traffic signals ✓
3. C rejected marriage proposals and domestic disputes ✓
4. D meteor showers ✓

The concept of hegemonic masculinity (Connell) refers to

1. A biological inevitability only ✓
2. B absence of any gender norms ✓
3. C female leadership only ✓
4. D the dominant form of masculinity that legitimizes patriarchy ✓

Arranged marriage in Pakistan is typically arranged by

1. A random lottery only ✓
2. B foreign embassies only ✓
3. C sports coaches only ✓
4. D families considering status, religion and kin compatibility ✓

Love marriage contrasts with arranged marriage by

1. A partners choosing each other, sometimes against family wishes ✓
2. B mandatory parental selection only ✓
3. C absence of any affection ✓
4. D legal prohibition in all provinces ✓

The Women's Protection Act 2006 (later contexts) aimed to

1. A ban all female employment ✓
2. B abolish haq mehr ✓
3. C end all family courts ✓
4. D ease procedural burdens on women in rape and zina cases ✓

Patriarchy denotes

1. A rule by women exclusively ✓
2. B absence of any hierarchy ✓
3. C social system where men hold primary authority in family and society ✓
4. D government by children ✓

Matriarchy (ideal type) would feature

1. A no family organization ✓
2. B only male elders deciding all ✓
3. C absence of kinship ✓
4. D primary authority vested in women ✓

Kinship obligation (wasta) in Pakistan can mean

1. A strict avoidance of all relatives ✓
2. B only legal punishment ✓
3. C only scientific measurement ✓
4. D using family or social connections to secure favours ✓

Monogamy is defined as

1. A marriage to multiple spouses simultaneously ✓
2. B absence of any marriage rules ✓
3. C only same-sex unions by definition ✓
4. D marriage to one spouse at a time ✓

Polygamy means

1. A mandatory celibacy ✓
2. B only civil partnership without ceremony ✓
3. C marriage involving more than one spouse ✓
4. D only adoption without marriage ✓

Polygyny refers specifically to

1. A one wife with multiple husbands ✓
2. B one husband with multiple wives ✓
3. C no marital bonds ✓
4. D only sibling co-residence ✓

Polyandry refers to

1. A one husband with many wives ✓
2. B one wife with multiple husbands ✓
3. C child-only households ✓
4. D institutional foster care only ✓

The nuclear family consists of

1. A parents and their children living as one household unit ✓
2. B all descendants of a common ancestor in a compound ✓
3. C only unrelated roommates ✓
4. D only institutional dormitory residents ✓