ICDVP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
The practice of buying one's wife became common -
correct answer ✅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? -
correct answer ✅Ancient Babylonian and Mosaic Laws
What was used by the church fathers to demonstrate women's
inferiority and justification for the brutalization of women? -
correct answer ✅doctrine of the original sin
During the witch craze, the periods from the sixteenth to the
eighteenth century illustrate what? -
correct answer ✅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 -
correct answer ✅thousands of executions, usually live burnings at
the stake
,ICDVP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
how many estimated women were brutally tortured and killed as
heretics and witches? -
correct answer ✅two hundred thousand to ten million
what type of women were of the accused and murdered during the
witch craze? -
correct answer ✅typically, single women living alone, older
women living alone (especially widows), healers, and midwives.
Many women were burned at the stake for -
correct answer ✅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? -
correct answer ✅When and how best to beat one's wife
what are scolds? -
correct answer ✅troublesome and angry women, who, by their
brawling and wrangling amongst their neighbors, break the public
peace
,ICDVP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete? -
correct answer ✅1967 in England
What is "riding the stang"? -
correct answer ✅Traditional community sanctions against
unacceptable levels of domestic violence which included
punishments of rituals of public shaming
When did footbinding begin and where? -
correct answer ✅tenth century China
What is the purpose of footbinding? -
correct answer ✅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? -
correct answer ✅Ages five to seven
, ICDVP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Sati -
correct answer ✅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. -
correct answer ✅True
In what year was Sati outlawed in British India? -
correct answer ✅1829
What was the first state to acknowledge a husband's right to beat
his wife? -
correct answer ✅Mississippi Supreme Court in 1824
True or False : By the 1870's, states began rejecting the legal
justification of wife beating -
correct answer ✅True
(Grade A+)
The practice of buying one's wife became common -
correct answer ✅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? -
correct answer ✅Ancient Babylonian and Mosaic Laws
What was used by the church fathers to demonstrate women's
inferiority and justification for the brutalization of women? -
correct answer ✅doctrine of the original sin
During the witch craze, the periods from the sixteenth to the
eighteenth century illustrate what? -
correct answer ✅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 -
correct answer ✅thousands of executions, usually live burnings at
the stake
,ICDVP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
how many estimated women were brutally tortured and killed as
heretics and witches? -
correct answer ✅two hundred thousand to ten million
what type of women were of the accused and murdered during the
witch craze? -
correct answer ✅typically, single women living alone, older
women living alone (especially widows), healers, and midwives.
Many women were burned at the stake for -
correct answer ✅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? -
correct answer ✅When and how best to beat one's wife
what are scolds? -
correct answer ✅troublesome and angry women, who, by their
brawling and wrangling amongst their neighbors, break the public
peace
,ICDVP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete? -
correct answer ✅1967 in England
What is "riding the stang"? -
correct answer ✅Traditional community sanctions against
unacceptable levels of domestic violence which included
punishments of rituals of public shaming
When did footbinding begin and where? -
correct answer ✅tenth century China
What is the purpose of footbinding? -
correct answer ✅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? -
correct answer ✅Ages five to seven
, ICDVP Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
Sati -
correct answer ✅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. -
correct answer ✅True
In what year was Sati outlawed in British India? -
correct answer ✅1829
What was the first state to acknowledge a husband's right to beat
his wife? -
correct answer ✅Mississippi Supreme Court in 1824
True or False : By the 1870's, states began rejecting the legal
justification of wife beating -
correct answer ✅True
