Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately what percentage of rape victims are raped by someone they do NOT know (“stranger rape”)?

a. 25 percent

b. 40 percent

c. 60 percent

d. 80 percent

2. A “marital rape exemption” preventing husbands from being charged with raping their wives existed in all U.S. states until:

a. the 1860s

b. the 1920s

c. the 1940s

d. the 1970s

e. the 2000s

3. The total number of rapes reported to law enforcement in the U.S. in 2013 was approximately:

a. 110,000

b. 225,000

c. 500,000

d. 750,000

e. 1,000,000

4. According to data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, about what percentage of sexual assaults occur at home or in the home of a friend or relative?

a. 25 percent

b. 50 percent

c. 60 percent

d. 75 percent

5. The term “raptus”, from which the word rape was derived, described:

a. brutal violence against women in the act of sexual assault

b. carrying off or abducting of a woman against her will

c. an emotional state of rapture that overpowered a man with sexual desire

d. mythical gods taking human form as a seductive woman

6. Which of the following was the most common explanation in the 1950s and 1960s for why offenders committed rape?

a. rigid sexual norms that caused male frustration

b. alcoholism

c. loose sexual norms that encouraged using force to obtain sex

d. desegregation

e. mental illness

7. From Old Testament Jewish codes through feudal European laws, rape was considered:

a. a crime of theft

b. a crime of physical injury

c. a crime committed by the woman who was raped

d. a crime requiring a vendetta rape against the family of the offender

8. Which of the following was decreed in the Old Testament as a punishment for the crime of rape:

a. offender banishment from the community

b. tar and feathering of the offender

c. marriage of the offender to the victim

d. execution by drowning

e. indentured servitude to the victim’s family

9. The Jeanne Clery Act requires that universities:

a. publish university crime reports and security policies

b. provide scholarships for victims of sexual assault

c. develop mandated anti-rape training for all students

d. provide alternatives to mixed gender dormitories and residence halls

True/False Questions

10. “Affirmative consent” regarding sexual activity can best be described by the phrase “no means no.”

11. The rate of reported rape in the U.S. has declined by more than 1/3 over the past twenty years.

12. The crime of rape was seldom reported in Medieval European societies.

13. Forced sex was a major criminal concern in Colonial America.

14. In colonial Virginia there was no law against forced sex with slaves.

15. Even convicted rapists often state that they believed the rape victim enjoyed the sex that was forced on them.

16. Rape victims seldom take an active role in the prosecution of those who raped them.

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