Multiple choice

The practice of marriage alliance that creates a desire to give away a girl through marriage to a superior family is known as?

  1. Endogamy

  2. Hypergamy

  3. Hypogamy

  4. Exogamy

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Hypergamy is the practice where women marry into a social group of higher status, specifically the desire to give a daughter in marriage to a superior family. Endogamy is marrying within the same group, hypogamy is marrying into a lower group, and exogamy is marrying outside one's specific group but not necessarily to a superior one.