Escaping The Abuse of DV Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

1-800-799-SAFE (7233) is the toll free phone number to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Answer: False

FALSE. The hotline is operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, including holidays.

Answer: All of these

All of these. This hotline has trained crisis counselors who can provide crisis counseling, the number to the victim's nearest shelter and other referral numbers to such agencies as the Battered Women's Resource Center.

Answer: All of these

All of these. Shelters provide free shelter and counseling, food, clothing, diapers, formula and personal hygiene items for their residents and their children. They also may offer referrals to attorneys (some who work pro bono (free) for battered women), job training and employment.

Answer: False

FALSE. The homes of family members or friends are the LAST place a victim should run to when escaping from her abuser. Those are the first places he will look for her. Her safest bet is a shelter and if the abuser is a police officer or someone else who knows the location of the shelter, that shelter will transfer the victim and her children to another shelter, preferably far away from the nearest shelter location, but in the same state.

The reasoning for this is in case the abuser wants to make a federal case out of the victim leaving the state with their children.

Answer: All of these

All of these. There is more. See next question.

Answer: Her picture ID and any welfare or medical cards

Her picture ID and any welfare or medical cards. She is going to need these things for job hunting or if she or her children require medical attention.

Answer: All of these

All of these. Although not totally necessary, a change of clothes is useful, if the victim is divorced, then divorce papers are good things to bring and by having to uproot the children, it frightens them and their favorite toys or blankets give them a sense of security in a strange place.

Answer: False

FALSE. Shelters are sometimes crowded and with little ones running around, they can be noisy, BUT they are clean and offer security and stability along with providing food, clothing, housing, and counseling to their residents and their children. The do have rules and do have a curfew for the women, but there are reasons for this in order to run the shelter efficiently and effectively and such rules are not unreasonable.

Answer: False

FALSE. A victim should NEVER let her abuser know that she is going to leave him. Violence can escalate rapidly if she does and murder is a very real possibility. She should try her best to keep things appearing 'normal' during her planning stages and she should leave when the abuser is gone out or at work quickly and quietly.

Answer: False

FALSE. These documents CAN be replaced and the shelter will help the victim get copies of what she needs. If she and her children, if she has any, arrive with nothing but the clothes on their backs, the shelter will accept them.

Answer: True

TRUE. It's best for the victim and her children's safety to let NO ONE know the location of where she is. If they don't know, they can't accidentally tell the abuser her exact location. Shelters provide pay phones in the shelter that have untraceable phone numbers to call her family and friends to tell them that she is safe, but shelter staff stress the importance of no one knowing her exact location.

Answer: All of these

All of these. If the victim, for instance a woman, takes her abuser to court for a divorce or any other reason related to abuse, police reports, medical records, photos of injuries and Orders of protection are all admissible in court and will strengthen her case against her abuse. It is no longer just her word against his.

Answer: False

FALSE. Shelters do assign chores to the resident so as to keep the shelter running effeciently and effectively, but they do not charge for any service provided to battered women and their children. Shelters are 501(c)3 charitable non-profit organizations and receive funding through private and governmental funding.

Answer: True

TRUE. The reasoning behind this is that there are female children over the age of 13 there and it could cause serious complications if a teenaged boy impregnates one of the other residents' daughters. Other arrangements for boys over the age of 13 are highly encouraged, such as going to live with relatives while the mother is in shelter.