ICDVP ACTUAL FINAL EXAM |220 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH EXPERT
SOLUTIONS | 2026 LATEST UPDATED | GET A+
1. The practice of buying one's wife became common: Violence against
women in the
Archaic States
2. What earliest laws were provided with documentation that slavery, private
property, and subjugation of women were facts of life?: Ancient Babylonian
and Mosaic Laws
3. What was used by the church fathers to demonstrate women's inferiority
and justification for the brutalization of women?: doctrine of the original
sin
4. 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
5. 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
6. how many estimated women were brutally tortured and killed as heretics
and witches?: two hundred thousand to ten million
7. 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.
8. 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
9. What did the Household Ordinance - published by the Russian Church -
outline?: When and how best to beat one's wife
10. what are scolds?: troublesome and angry women, who, by their brawling
and wrangling amongst their neighbors, break the public peace
,11. When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete?: 1967 in England
12. What is "riding the stang"?: Traditional community sanctions against
unacceptable levels of domestic violence which included punishments of
rituals of public shaming
13. When did footbinding begin and where?: tenth century China
14. 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.
15. How early did foobinding begin for girls?: Ages five to seven
16 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.
17. True or False : Sati did not make the woman virtuous ; it proved that she
had been virtuous all her life.: True
, 18. In what year was Sati outlawed in British India?: 1829
19. What was the first state to acknowledge a husband's right to beat his
wife?: Mississippi Supreme Court in 1824
20. True or False : By the 1870's, states began rejecting the legal justification
of wife beating: True
21. When and what supreme court disavowed a husband's right to beat his
wife?: In 1874, North Carolina Supreme Court
22. Between 1876 and 1906, what were being introduced in twelve states
and
the district of columbia?: bills to punish wife beaters with the whipping posts
23. True or False : Whipping-post bills were defeated in all states except
Maryland in 1882, Delaware in 1901, and Oregon in 1905.: True
24. What did the North Carolina Supreme Court eliminate in 1890?: the last
remaining
restrictions on a husband's liability and prohibited a man from committing
even a minor assault against his wife
SOLUTIONS | 2026 LATEST UPDATED | GET A+
1. The practice of buying one's wife became common: Violence against
women in the
Archaic States
2. What earliest laws were provided with documentation that slavery, private
property, and subjugation of women were facts of life?: Ancient Babylonian
and Mosaic Laws
3. What was used by the church fathers to demonstrate women's inferiority
and justification for the brutalization of women?: doctrine of the original
sin
4. 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
5. 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
6. how many estimated women were brutally tortured and killed as heretics
and witches?: two hundred thousand to ten million
7. 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.
8. 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
9. What did the Household Ordinance - published by the Russian Church -
outline?: When and how best to beat one's wife
10. what are scolds?: troublesome and angry women, who, by their brawling
and wrangling amongst their neighbors, break the public peace
,11. When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete?: 1967 in England
12. What is "riding the stang"?: Traditional community sanctions against
unacceptable levels of domestic violence which included punishments of
rituals of public shaming
13. When did footbinding begin and where?: tenth century China
14. 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.
15. How early did foobinding begin for girls?: Ages five to seven
16 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.
17. True or False : Sati did not make the woman virtuous ; it proved that she
had been virtuous all her life.: True
, 18. In what year was Sati outlawed in British India?: 1829
19. What was the first state to acknowledge a husband's right to beat his
wife?: Mississippi Supreme Court in 1824
20. True or False : By the 1870's, states began rejecting the legal justification
of wife beating: True
21. When and what supreme court disavowed a husband's right to beat his
wife?: In 1874, North Carolina Supreme Court
22. Between 1876 and 1906, what were being introduced in twelve states
and
the district of columbia?: bills to punish wife beaters with the whipping posts
23. True or False : Whipping-post bills were defeated in all states except
Maryland in 1882, Delaware in 1901, and Oregon in 1905.: True
24. What did the North Carolina Supreme Court eliminate in 1890?: the last
remaining
restrictions on a husband's liability and prohibited a man from committing
even a minor assault against his wife
