ICDVP UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● violence against women in Archaic states
Answer: subjection of women facts of life; buying one's wife became
common; Roman laws
●● Law of the 12 Tables
Answer: Rome's first set of written laws
●● impact of Christianity on violence against women
Answer: original sin
●● time span of the witch craze
Answer: 1560-1760 in Europe and American colonies
●● number of women tortured and killed as heretics and witches during
the witch craze
Answer: 200,000-10,000,000
●● who was accused of witchcraft during the witch craze
Answer: single/older women living alone; healers and midwives
,●● last official hanging of an accused witch in England
Answer: 1684
●● last accused witch burned at the stake in Germany
Answer: 1775
●● foot-binding in China
Answer: marketable for marriage; feet could become bloody and
infected
●● year foot-binding in China was outlawed
Answer: 1911
●● Sati
Answer: a woman who burns herself alive next to her deceased husband;
women not encouraged to live alone; example of love, devotion, and
loyalty to husband
●● honor killings
Answer: husband could kill cheating wife; public spectacle
●● common misogynistic practices in the historical persective
, Answer: foot-binding, honor killings, wife selling, killing female infants
●● the rule of thumb
Answer: in England medieval law allowed a man to strike his wife with
a stick as long as the stick was not thicker than his thumb
●● 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling
Answer: court affirmed a husband's right to chastise his wife; husbands
could beat their wives to death
●● states that began to go against the 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court
ruling
Answer: Alabama, Massachusetts
●● year states began to go against the 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court
ruling
Answer: 1870
●● years feminism returns
Answer: 1960s/70s
●● two branches of 60s/70s feminism
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● violence against women in Archaic states
Answer: subjection of women facts of life; buying one's wife became
common; Roman laws
●● Law of the 12 Tables
Answer: Rome's first set of written laws
●● impact of Christianity on violence against women
Answer: original sin
●● time span of the witch craze
Answer: 1560-1760 in Europe and American colonies
●● number of women tortured and killed as heretics and witches during
the witch craze
Answer: 200,000-10,000,000
●● who was accused of witchcraft during the witch craze
Answer: single/older women living alone; healers and midwives
,●● last official hanging of an accused witch in England
Answer: 1684
●● last accused witch burned at the stake in Germany
Answer: 1775
●● foot-binding in China
Answer: marketable for marriage; feet could become bloody and
infected
●● year foot-binding in China was outlawed
Answer: 1911
●● Sati
Answer: a woman who burns herself alive next to her deceased husband;
women not encouraged to live alone; example of love, devotion, and
loyalty to husband
●● honor killings
Answer: husband could kill cheating wife; public spectacle
●● common misogynistic practices in the historical persective
, Answer: foot-binding, honor killings, wife selling, killing female infants
●● the rule of thumb
Answer: in England medieval law allowed a man to strike his wife with
a stick as long as the stick was not thicker than his thumb
●● 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling
Answer: court affirmed a husband's right to chastise his wife; husbands
could beat their wives to death
●● states that began to go against the 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court
ruling
Answer: Alabama, Massachusetts
●● year states began to go against the 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court
ruling
Answer: 1870
●● years feminism returns
Answer: 1960s/70s
●● two branches of 60s/70s feminism
