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UNDERSTANDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PARTNER FINAL QUIZ 2020

Name__________________________ Student Number_____________________

1. Explain how long-term abuse affect women and trans*people. 3 points

 

2. Why do abusive partners abuse?  3 points

 

3. Give 3 reasons (with brief explanations) survivors give for staying or returning to abusive partners? 4 points

4. What are the 3 main categories if abuse? Give an example of each?  6 points

 

 

5. Identify and describe the phases in Lenore Walker’s cycle of violence.  6 points

 

6. What are 3 things that the legal system can do to improve the response to woman and trans abuse? 4 points

 

 7.What are three services that a domestic violence shelter provides?  3 points

8. Define the following terms: (10 Points)

Transgender:

Ageism:

Racism:

Intersectionality:

Heterosexism:

9. For the following 4 examples match the myth with the appropriate facts: 4 points

a. Women choose violent men or are unable to make good choices in relationships.

b. They could just leave

c. They will be safe if they leave the abuser

d. Victims are passive and weak. They don’t resist violence.

Type the correct letter from above to the corresponding fact.

 

_______They resist violence in a variety of ways, including engaging in a behaviours designed to minimize the effect of violence on themselves and others including children.

______Many people who end up being violent start off the relationship by being loving attentive, thoughtful and romantic. Abuser often use apologies and promises to change.

______Most women and trans*people in abusive relationships also face systematic barriers including lack of affordable housing and financial resources

_____Ending the relationship place women at heighten risk of being killed.

10. True or False 7 points

1. It is estimated that 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner at some point in their lives. However, some national studies show that up to 70 per cent of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime.

2. Women who have been physically or sexually abused by their partners are more than twice as likely to have an abortion, almost twice as likely to experience depression, and in some regions, 1.5 times more likely to acquire HIV, as compared to women who have not experienced partner violence.

3. Evidence does not suggest that certain characteristics of women, such as sexual orientation, disability status or ethnicity, and some contextual factors, such as humanitarian crises, including conflict and post-conflict situations, may increase women’s vulnerability to violence

4. In the majority of countries with available data, more than 60 per cent of the women who experience violence seek help of any sort. Among women who do, most look to family and friends and very few look to formal institutions and mechanisms, such as police and health services.

5. Abusive lesbians have suffered at the hands of abusive men and cannot be held responsible for being abusive themselves.

6. Domestic violence affects only 10% of the population.

7. Abusers are violence in all of their relationship.

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Bonus Mark 5 Points

Recreate one of the domestic violence wheels of control.

Total Quiz_____________/50/2 ________

plus Bonus__________/5

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