Fact Sheet Index

Sexual Violence in the United States: A Quiz

1. Every ___ seconds, a woman is forcibly raped; ___ women each day.
2. ____ million women have been the victim of forcible rape during their lifetime. One out of every ___ adult women.
3. Approximately ____% of women and ____% of men were sexually abused as children.
4. Researcher D.E.H. Russell calculated the likelihood of a woman's not being sexually assaulted or harassed in her lifetime at only ____%.
5. ____% of female victims of child rape were under 18 years old when they were first raped: ____% were under 12, and ____% were 12 to 17.
6. ____% of pregnant and parenting adolescent women had been raped at some point in their lives.
7. A San Francisco study on sexual assault showed that ____% of the women in the sample had been incestuously abused before age 18.
8. ____% of incest victims are females, and ____% of the offenders are male.
9. During the 1996-1997 school year, there were about _______ incidents of rape or other types of sexual assault in public schools across the country.
10. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, in 1995, nearly ____% of the rapes or attempted rapes perpetrated in the U.S. were not reported to police.
ANSWERS
1) 45; 1,871
2) 12.1; 8
3) 35%; 20%
4) 7.8%
5) 54%; 22%; 32%
6) 66%
7) 16%
8) 92%; 97%
9) 4,000
10) 72%