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DATING VIOLENCE QUIZ
Test your dating violence knowledge by answering the true/false questions and the multiple choice questions below.
TRUE/FALSE
1. Dating violence is rare among high school students, college students and other
educated people.
2. When someone leaves an abusive relationship, the abuse usually ends.
3. Drug and/or alcohol abuse is often a factor in dating violence incidents.
4. The best way to get a friend to leave an abusive relationship is to "cut ties" with
them.
5. If violence occurs once in a dating relationship, it is likely to happen again.
6. Police hardly ever make arrests in dating violence situations.
MULTIPLE CHOICE (Can have more than one correct answer)
7. What kind of behavior could be considered a sign of relationship abuse?
a. your partner takes a nap while you're talking to him or her about something important.
b. your partner tells you that you're fat and ugly.
c. your partner lets you know that he/she doesn't like it when you "flirt" with other people.
d. you're a vegetarian, and your partner makes you eat at a restaurant with no veggie menu.
8. What's a good way to help a friend who's in an abusive relationship?
a. offer to beat up your friend's partner.
b. offer to burn down your friend's partner's house.
c. listen when your friend wants to talk about the relationship.
d. remind your friend that he/she is beautiful, smart, and fun to be around.
9. True love is...
a. never having to say, "I’m sorry."
b. feeling that your partner's needs are just as important as your own.
c. when your partner is jealous and possessive--that's how you know he/she loves you.
d. when you and your partner love spending all your time together.
10. Why do people abuse their partners?
a. because the abuser drinks too much and can't control him/herself when drunk.
b. because the partner makes the abuser so angry.
c. because the abuse is trying to control the partner.
d. because they don't have much money and this causes stress in the relationship.
11. Which of the following behaviors could be considered a sign of dating violence?
a. you and your partner are having an argument in the car, and your partner keeps swerving
into the oncoming lane until you agree.
b. when you try to end the relationship, your partner says he/she can't live without you and
threatens suicide.
c. you have an argument about what to do on a Friday night, so you decide to spend the
evening alone and don't speak until the next day.
d. after you go out on a Friday night with your friends, your partner falsely accuses you of
cheating.
