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Stalking Quiz

Answer each question and submit them to evaluate your choices.

1: Which of these is stalking?
A stranger who makes you somewhat nervous crosses your path twice in one day
A really nerdy guy calls you up for a date 4 times, though you have never gone out with him
A man you went out with once refuses to understand that you don't want to see him again, and has been phoning you, sometimes dozens of times a day, for several months. His behavior frightens you.
Someone you don't know drives slowly past your house twice every evening for a week


2: Which of the following have stalkers been known to do?
Send their target a bedpan
Break into the homes of their victim's relatives
Kill their victim's pet
All of 1-3.


3: Stalkers are usually . . .
Under 21 years old
Male
Mentally ill
Strangers to their targets


4: If you are the target of a stalker, you are probably . . .
Male
Female


5: How many stalkers become violent?
1%
10%
30%
50%


6: To determine whether a stalker will become violent, you should...
Consult a professional, who will use a formula to determine your degree of risk.
Determine whether the stalker has made threats or not.
Find out whether the stalker is mentally ill.
None of the above.


7: If you are being stalked, should you get a restraining order?
Yes
No
Maybe


8: If you are a woman, your stalker is most likely to be...
a stranger
someone you work with
a woman
a (current or former) husband or boyfriend


9: Most women who are murdered by intimate partners are stalked by them first.
True
False


10: Who do 'celebrity stalkers' target?
Movie and TV actors and actresses.
Company executives.
Political figures.
Radio Personalities.
All of the above


11: How can you find out more about stalking?
Check out AWARE's special information on stalking.

 

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