The general term for a marriage partner selection rule requiring that marriage be to someone within a defined social group such as an extended family, religious community, economic class, ethnic or age group.

The general term for a marriage partner selection rule requiring that marriage be with someone outside of a defined social group such as one's nuclear or extended family.

The kind of marriage selection rule that is intended to prevents incest. (Hint: think in terms of endogamy and exogamy.)

The kind of marriage selection rule that applies when relatives tell you that you should marry someone who speaks your own language and has the same cultural values. (Hint: think in terms of endogamy and exogamy.)

The kind of marriage selection rule that applies when the law says that you cannot marry your sibling or parent. (Hint: think in terms of endogamy and exogamy.)

The percentage of the world’s cultures that define at least some cousins as preferred mates.

The preferred marriage partner among the Bedouin Arabs. (Hint: it is some kind of cousin.)

patrilateral parallel cousin (i.e., a parallel cousin on the father’s side of the family)

The preferred marriage partner for a man among the Yanomamö Indians of Brazil and Venezuela.

a close male friend’s sister (i.e., they exchange sisters for marriage partners); in subsequent generations, this ideally results in cross cousin marriage

The term for being married to more than one spouse at the same time.

The term for being married to more than one man at the same time.

The term for being married to more than one woman at the same time.

The term for being married to only one spouse at a time.

The term for being married more than one spouse but only one at a time.

The form of marriage that was preferred by only 20% of the sample of 850 societies in the world described in the tutorial. (Hint: think in terms of polygamy versus monogamy.)

The form of marriage that most people in the world follow today. (Hint: think in terms of polygamy and monogamy.)

The people in Greek villages who traditionally have been socially prohibited from marrying again after the death of their spouses. (Hint: think in terms of men and women.)

The rarest form of marriage in the world. (Hint: think in terms of monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry.)

The areas of the world in which polyandry is a culturally accepted form of marriage.

some isolated rural regions of India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Tibet

The form of polyandry in which two brothers marry the same woman.

The reason that the introduction of the notion of romantic love has been disruptive in polyandrous marriages.

It encourages the concept of exclusive bonds with the wife by each husband.

The major areas of the world in which polygyny is still a culturally accepted form of marriage.

Moslem nations, traditional cattle herding societies of East Africa, and the remnants of the old kingdoms of West Africa.