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1) Thomas Robert Malthus is generally considered to be a demographic determinist.
- True
- False
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2) The U.S. Census was established in 1790 for what purpose?
- ato ensure that the House of Representatives had an accurate proportion of the state populations
- bto tax the states
- cto raise an army
- dto determine the incomes of the citizens
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3) The kinds of structures social demographers study are
- aonly biological: age and sex
- bboth biological and sociocultural
- conly sociocultural, such as ethnicity, social class, and income
- donly historical
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4) Which of the following is the basic balancing equation of demography?
- aPt = M+P
- bPt = P1+P2
- cPt = P0 + (B–D) + (I–O)
- dPt = B–D
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5) Which of the following is not a vital event?
- apopulation growth
- bbirths
- cdeaths
- dnone of the above is a vital event
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6) Internal migration records are
- amaintained in Canada but not in the United States
- bmaintained in Canada and the United States
- cmaintained in the United States but not in Canada
- dnot maintained in Canada or the United States
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7) Malthus was the first to establish a family-planning clinic.
- True
- False
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8) Unlike Darwin, Lamarck believed that acquired traits (such as learning a new language) could be inherited.
- True
- False
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9) Edmund Halley was well known for his research on
- acomets
- bnutrition
- cmortality
- dA and C, above
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10) f a researcher finds that in a particular population large families tend to have low incomes, and then concludes that a specific large family in the population has a low income, the conclusion is a structural effect.
- True
- False
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11) Malthus was England’s first population scientist.
- True
- False
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12) Today, most national governments collect both survey data and registration data.
- True
- False
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13) If a researcher finds that in a particular population large families tend to have low incomes, and then concludes that a specific large family in the population has a low income, the conclusion is a structural effect.
- True
- False
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14) The empires of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Rome did not keep census-like records.
- True
- False
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15) Human populations experience two types of inheritance.
- True
- False
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16) The earliest attempts to count population size occurred
- ain about 1865 in the United States
- bin 1900 in Sweden
- cin 1950 in Quebec
- dnone of the above
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17) An aggregate is a specific kind of naturally occurring population.
- True
- False
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18) In the United States, the Census Bureau is responsible for taking population counts and for keeping track of births and deaths.
- True
- False
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19) The four categories of population characteristics studied by demographers are size, crime rates, theology, and changes in these categories.
- True
- False
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20) Émile Durkheim
- acurrently works at the U.S. Census Bureau
- bstudied suicide
- cdemonstrated the structural effect
- dB and C, above
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21) The two main approaches to demographic study are formal demography and criminology.
- True
- False
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22) A “structural effect” refers to
- athe effect that individual characteristics have on a population’s structure
- bthe effect that an institution, such as religion, has on another institution, such as the family
- cthe study of changes in a population’s structure
- dnone of the above
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23) Populations of many species (not just humans) tend to be territorial and endogamous.
- True
- False
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24) The accuracy of the U.S. Census count
- ahas never been seriously questioned
- bhas never been the subject of lawsuits
- chas never been supplemented by a sample survey
- dnone of the above
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25) The Greek root of the word “demography” refers to a group of living (usually human) beings.
- True
- False
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26) The root of the word “demography”
- ais from the Greek language
- bmeans “people” (collectively)
- cis related to the word “democracy”
- dall of the above
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27) The term “endogamy” refers to which feature of a population?
- ait is an aggregate of people rather than an individual
- bits members tend to marry one another
- cit grows more rapidly than the food to supply it
- dnone of the above
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28) Following the fall of Rome, most census data came from government reports.
- True
- False
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29) John Graunt was a pioneer in the study of
- abirths
- bdeaths
- cin-migration
- dout-migration
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30) According to the Bible, “On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying”
- abuild a Golden Calf
- btake a census
- creturn to Egypt
- dnone of the above
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31) The main difference between the views of Malthus and those of his contemporary followers—known as “Neo-Malthusians”—is
- aNeo-Malthusians do not agree with Malthus that populations always grow more rapidly than sustenance
- bNeo-Malthusians do not agree with Malthus that family planning should not be used
- cNeo-Malthusians do not agree with Malthus that the sex drive is always part of human existence
- dNeo-Malthusians do not agree with Malthus that population growth leads to social problems