ICDVP Exam 2 Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
What is the Common Scold? -
correct answer ✅troublesome and angry women who break the
public peace. It was a crime that consisted of speaking one's mind
and could only be committed by women.
When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete in England by
the Criminal Law Act ? -
correct answer ✅In 1967
When was the last women convicted of being a common scold in
the U.S.? -
correct answer ✅in 1829, but the last women accused of being a
scold in the U.S. was in 1971 in New Jersey.
What is Riding the Stang? -
correct answer ✅rituals of public shaming by community sanctions
What is abuse? -
correct answer ✅repeated attempts to control, manipulate, or
demean another individual using physical, sexual, or emotional
tactics.
,ICDVP Exam 2 Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
What is physical abuse? -
correct answer ✅any use of size, strength, or presence to hurt or
control someone else. Ex.) pushing, slapping, choking, biting,
kicking, etc.
What is emotional abuse? -
correct answer ✅any use of words, voice, action, or lack of action
meant to control, hurt, or demean another person.
Emotionally abusive relationships are defined as what? -
correct answer ✅involving repeated hurtful exchanges with a
disregard for the partner's feelings.
What are some types of verbal abuse? -
correct answer ✅threatening to kill , accusing partner of
unfaithfulness, name calling, criticizing, yelling, etc.
What is sexual abuse? -
correct answer ✅any sexual behavior meant to control,
manipulate, humiliate, or demean another person.
, ICDVP Exam 2 Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Sex in abusive relationships is often used as what? -
correct answer ✅as means to exert power over the female partner
and to further shame and humiliate her. Frequently women are
raped after a beating.
What are some types of sexual abuse? -
correct answer ✅unwanted touching, unfaithfulness, forced sex,
hurtful sex, forcing partner to watch others have sex.
What are some myths about domestic violence and victims? -
correct answer ✅that victims provoke their abusers, battered
women are helpless, passive, fragile, and have little to no
education, battered women enjoy abuse, batterers are
inappropriate in all their relationships, abusive relationships will not
change for the better, and alcohol and drug use cause battering
What are some realities of domestic violence? -
correct answer ✅Batterers chose to be violent instead of choosing
a nonviolent alternative, domestic violence crosses all
socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, educational, and religious lines,
victim blaming is another way taking the blame away the batterer,
the victim cannot control the batterer, batterers choose to act
violently in select relationships as a means of dominating
(Grade A+)
What is the Common Scold? -
correct answer ✅troublesome and angry women who break the
public peace. It was a crime that consisted of speaking one's mind
and could only be committed by women.
When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete in England by
the Criminal Law Act ? -
correct answer ✅In 1967
When was the last women convicted of being a common scold in
the U.S.? -
correct answer ✅in 1829, but the last women accused of being a
scold in the U.S. was in 1971 in New Jersey.
What is Riding the Stang? -
correct answer ✅rituals of public shaming by community sanctions
What is abuse? -
correct answer ✅repeated attempts to control, manipulate, or
demean another individual using physical, sexual, or emotional
tactics.
,ICDVP Exam 2 Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
What is physical abuse? -
correct answer ✅any use of size, strength, or presence to hurt or
control someone else. Ex.) pushing, slapping, choking, biting,
kicking, etc.
What is emotional abuse? -
correct answer ✅any use of words, voice, action, or lack of action
meant to control, hurt, or demean another person.
Emotionally abusive relationships are defined as what? -
correct answer ✅involving repeated hurtful exchanges with a
disregard for the partner's feelings.
What are some types of verbal abuse? -
correct answer ✅threatening to kill , accusing partner of
unfaithfulness, name calling, criticizing, yelling, etc.
What is sexual abuse? -
correct answer ✅any sexual behavior meant to control,
manipulate, humiliate, or demean another person.
, ICDVP Exam 2 Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Sex in abusive relationships is often used as what? -
correct answer ✅as means to exert power over the female partner
and to further shame and humiliate her. Frequently women are
raped after a beating.
What are some types of sexual abuse? -
correct answer ✅unwanted touching, unfaithfulness, forced sex,
hurtful sex, forcing partner to watch others have sex.
What are some myths about domestic violence and victims? -
correct answer ✅that victims provoke their abusers, battered
women are helpless, passive, fragile, and have little to no
education, battered women enjoy abuse, batterers are
inappropriate in all their relationships, abusive relationships will not
change for the better, and alcohol and drug use cause battering
What are some realities of domestic violence? -
correct answer ✅Batterers chose to be violent instead of choosing
a nonviolent alternative, domestic violence crosses all
socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, educational, and religious lines,
victim blaming is another way taking the blame away the batterer,
the victim cannot control the batterer, batterers choose to act
violently in select relationships as a means of dominating
