ICDVP Study Guide questions well
answered to pass
implemented by British Parliament; advocated by women's groups; facilitated divorce - correct
answer ✔✔Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857
subjection of women facts of life; buying one's wife became common; Roman laws - correct
answer ✔✔violence against women in Archaic states
Rome's first set of written laws - correct answer ✔✔Law of the 12 Tables
original sin - correct answer ✔✔impact of Christianity on violence against women
1560-1760 in Europe and American colonies - correct answer ✔✔time span of the witch craze
200,000-10,000,000 - correct answer ✔✔number of women tortured and killed as heretics and
witches during the witch craze
single/older women living alone; healers and midwives - correct answer ✔✔who was accused
of witchcraft during the witch craze
1684 - correct answer ✔✔last official hanging of an accused witch in England
1775 - correct answer ✔✔last accused witch burned at the stake in Germany
,marketable for marriage; feet could become bloody and infected - correct answer ✔✔foot-
binding in China
1911 - correct answer ✔✔year foot-binding in China was outlawed
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 - correct answer ✔✔Sati
husband could kill cheating wife; public spectacle - correct answer ✔✔honor killings
foot-binding, honor killings, wife selling, killing female infants - correct answer ✔✔common
misogynistic practices in the historical persective
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 - correct answer ✔✔the rule of thumb
court affirmed a husband's right to chastise his wife; husbands could beat their wives to death -
correct answer ✔✔1824 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling
Alabama, Massachusetts - correct answer ✔✔states that began to go against the 1824
Mississippi Supreme Court ruling
1870 - correct answer ✔✔year states began to go against the 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court
ruling
1960s/70s - correct answer ✔✔years feminism returns
National Organization for Women, women's liberation movement - correct answer ✔✔two
branches of 60s/70s feminism
, 1980; Texas - correct answer ✔✔year and location of the first US shelter
1976; Pennsylvania - correct answer ✔✔year and location of first state coalition against DV
1978 Commission on Civil Rights - correct answer ✔✔what led to the creation of the National
Coalition Against DV
1984; first federal funding - correct answer ✔✔year of Family Violence Prevention Services Act
1987 - correct answer ✔✔year of the first national DV hotline
1994 - correct answer ✔✔year of Violence Against Women Act
2500 - correct answer ✔✔approximate current amount of shelters, hotlines, and networks
a pattern of abusing power for the purpose of controlling an intimate partner - correct answer
✔✔domestic violence
50% - correct answer ✔✔percentage of women receiving TANF that have been physically
abused
states can make exemption from work requirements for DV victims - correct answer ✔✔TANF
Family Violence Option
1.5 million - correct answer ✔✔number of women a year that seek medical care as a result of
abuse
answered to pass
implemented by British Parliament; advocated by women's groups; facilitated divorce - correct
answer ✔✔Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857
subjection of women facts of life; buying one's wife became common; Roman laws - correct
answer ✔✔violence against women in Archaic states
Rome's first set of written laws - correct answer ✔✔Law of the 12 Tables
original sin - correct answer ✔✔impact of Christianity on violence against women
1560-1760 in Europe and American colonies - correct answer ✔✔time span of the witch craze
200,000-10,000,000 - correct answer ✔✔number of women tortured and killed as heretics and
witches during the witch craze
single/older women living alone; healers and midwives - correct answer ✔✔who was accused
of witchcraft during the witch craze
1684 - correct answer ✔✔last official hanging of an accused witch in England
1775 - correct answer ✔✔last accused witch burned at the stake in Germany
,marketable for marriage; feet could become bloody and infected - correct answer ✔✔foot-
binding in China
1911 - correct answer ✔✔year foot-binding in China was outlawed
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 - correct answer ✔✔Sati
husband could kill cheating wife; public spectacle - correct answer ✔✔honor killings
foot-binding, honor killings, wife selling, killing female infants - correct answer ✔✔common
misogynistic practices in the historical persective
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 - correct answer ✔✔the rule of thumb
court affirmed a husband's right to chastise his wife; husbands could beat their wives to death -
correct answer ✔✔1824 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling
Alabama, Massachusetts - correct answer ✔✔states that began to go against the 1824
Mississippi Supreme Court ruling
1870 - correct answer ✔✔year states began to go against the 1824 Mississippi Supreme Court
ruling
1960s/70s - correct answer ✔✔years feminism returns
National Organization for Women, women's liberation movement - correct answer ✔✔two
branches of 60s/70s feminism
, 1980; Texas - correct answer ✔✔year and location of the first US shelter
1976; Pennsylvania - correct answer ✔✔year and location of first state coalition against DV
1978 Commission on Civil Rights - correct answer ✔✔what led to the creation of the National
Coalition Against DV
1984; first federal funding - correct answer ✔✔year of Family Violence Prevention Services Act
1987 - correct answer ✔✔year of the first national DV hotline
1994 - correct answer ✔✔year of Violence Against Women Act
2500 - correct answer ✔✔approximate current amount of shelters, hotlines, and networks
a pattern of abusing power for the purpose of controlling an intimate partner - correct answer
✔✔domestic violence
50% - correct answer ✔✔percentage of women receiving TANF that have been physically
abused
states can make exemption from work requirements for DV victims - correct answer ✔✔TANF
Family Violence Option
1.5 million - correct answer ✔✔number of women a year that seek medical care as a result of
abuse
