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Question #1
Before the 1990s, sexual violence in war with largely seen as
A.   a private matter
B.   a trivial matter
C.   All of these
D.   An inevitable byproduct of war
Question #2
According to the Allied Local Council Law No 10 which prosecuted the intermediate ranking Nazi war criminals, rape was:
A.   Charged as crime against Korean “Comfort Women”
B.   Charged as a crime against ethnic honor
C.   Charged as a crime against Jewish women
D.   Not charged at all
Question #3
How did the crimes against women that took place against non Japanese women during World War II in the so-called "comfort stations" come into public attention?
A.   All of these
B.   When aging survivors told their stories
C.   When Swedish feminists pushed back against Japan's silence on its crimes during WWII
D.   When the Korean and Chinese governments indicted imperial Japan in the United Nations
Question #4
According to Copelon, rape was likely not explicitly prosecuted at the trial of Nazis in Nuremberg, Germany because some Allied troops were equally guilty of raping women
A.   False
B.   True
Question #5
The research on the military archives in Australia by scholars like Ustina Dolgopol exposed that the Allied forces in WWII were:
A.   Fully aware of the existence of the comfort/slave stations in the Far East
B.   All of these
C.   Aware that women were taken and kept against their will
D.   Aware that the comfort/slave system subjected women to extreme sexual violence
Question #6
A typical attitude toward the use of rape in Rwanda when the 1994 genocide first ended was that genocide is killing and that the raped women were the lucky ones since they survived the war.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #7
Which of the following WAS NOT a factor that led to the prosecution of wartime rape by the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda (ICTR) and later on by international law at large?
A.   The prosecutor rejected the long-held belief that it is impossible to document rape because women wouldn’t talk about it
B.   Two witnesses mentioned that they had been raped by the Interahamwe (genocide gangs)
C.   Feminist activists in human rights organizations sent critical letters to the chief prosecutor of ICTR demanding changes that would facilitate the investigation of gender crimes
D.   The sole female judge on ICTR’s court pursued a line of inquiry following the mention of rape by female witnesses
Question #8
What was the significance of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) for the prosecution of wartime rape?
A.   The women’s human rights movement mobilized to support the election of women judges who played a crucial role in the ICTY trials
B.   All of these
C.   The lead judge demanded the incorporation of an expert on gender at the highest level of Office of the Prosecutor
D.   It adopted an open process of rule-making of rape trials and invited nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), states and feminist groups to draw attention to issues like keeping confidential the identities of victims and witnesses even from the defense.

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