ICDVP EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS NEWEST
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The practice of buying one's wife became common
Violence against women in the Archaic States
What earliest laws were provided with documentation that slavery, private property, and
subjugation of women were facts of life?
Ancient Babylonian and Mosaic Laws
What was used by the church fathers to demonstrate women's inferiority and justification for
the brutalization of women?
doctrine of the original sin
During the witch craze, the periods from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century illustrate
what?
the extent to which the church and state condoned and perpetuated the abuse, torture, and
murder of women
What was the result of the femicidal mania of the witch hunt craze that took place from 1560 to
1760
thousands of executions, usually live burnings at the stake
how many estimated women were brutally tortured and killed as heretics and witches?
two hundred thousand to ten million
what type of women were of the accused and murdered during the witch craze?
typically, single women living alone, older women living alone (especially widows), healers, and
midwives.
Many women were burned at the stake for
threatening their husbands, talking back to a priest, stealing, prostitution, adultery, bearing a
child out of wedlock, permitting sodomy, masturbation, lesbianism, child neglect, scolding and
nagging, and miscarrying
What did the Household Ordinance - published by the Russian Church - outline?
, When and how best to beat one's wife
what are scolds?
troublesome and angry women, who, by their brawling and wrangling amongst their neighbors,
break the public peace
When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete?
1967 in England
What is "riding the stang"?
Traditional community sanctions against unacceptable levels of domestic violence which
included punishments of rituals of public shaming
When did footbinding begin and where?
tenth century China
What is the purpose of footbinding?
bound feet were considered an asset in the marriage market - by preventing women from
moving around easily, they reinforced women's oppression because Chinese tradition dictated
that a woman should not appear in public or be seen in the company of men.
How early did foobinding begin for girls?
Ages five to seven
Sati
The Indian custom of a widow voluntarily throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband -
which later evolved to mean a woman who burned herself alive alongside the body of her
deceased husband.
True or False : Sati did not make the woman virtuous ; it proved that she had been virtuous all
her life.
True
In what year was Sati outlawed in British India?
1829
What was the first state to acknowledge a husband's right to beat his wife?
Mississippi Supreme Court in 1824
RATED A+ 2025/2026 UPDATED
The practice of buying one's wife became common
Violence against women in the Archaic States
What earliest laws were provided with documentation that slavery, private property, and
subjugation of women were facts of life?
Ancient Babylonian and Mosaic Laws
What was used by the church fathers to demonstrate women's inferiority and justification for
the brutalization of women?
doctrine of the original sin
During the witch craze, the periods from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century illustrate
what?
the extent to which the church and state condoned and perpetuated the abuse, torture, and
murder of women
What was the result of the femicidal mania of the witch hunt craze that took place from 1560 to
1760
thousands of executions, usually live burnings at the stake
how many estimated women were brutally tortured and killed as heretics and witches?
two hundred thousand to ten million
what type of women were of the accused and murdered during the witch craze?
typically, single women living alone, older women living alone (especially widows), healers, and
midwives.
Many women were burned at the stake for
threatening their husbands, talking back to a priest, stealing, prostitution, adultery, bearing a
child out of wedlock, permitting sodomy, masturbation, lesbianism, child neglect, scolding and
nagging, and miscarrying
What did the Household Ordinance - published by the Russian Church - outline?
, When and how best to beat one's wife
what are scolds?
troublesome and angry women, who, by their brawling and wrangling amongst their neighbors,
break the public peace
When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete?
1967 in England
What is "riding the stang"?
Traditional community sanctions against unacceptable levels of domestic violence which
included punishments of rituals of public shaming
When did footbinding begin and where?
tenth century China
What is the purpose of footbinding?
bound feet were considered an asset in the marriage market - by preventing women from
moving around easily, they reinforced women's oppression because Chinese tradition dictated
that a woman should not appear in public or be seen in the company of men.
How early did foobinding begin for girls?
Ages five to seven
Sati
The Indian custom of a widow voluntarily throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband -
which later evolved to mean a woman who burned herself alive alongside the body of her
deceased husband.
True or False : Sati did not make the woman virtuous ; it proved that she had been virtuous all
her life.
True
In what year was Sati outlawed in British India?
1829
What was the first state to acknowledge a husband's right to beat his wife?
Mississippi Supreme Court in 1824
