Questions on Self-Defense

Please select an answer for each of the questions below. Click the submit button when you have completed the post-test.

What is Self-defense?

A) Action taken with the intention to kill someone

B) Right of a person to stop or prevent harm, injury, violence or force through the use of necessary level of force or violence

C) Visiting a perpetrator at home with harmful objects

D) The use of force by a survivor after a perpetrator has ended the assault
Which of the following is not in self-defense?

A) It is a reaction to a situation

B) There is a possibility of harm to the defender

C) It is carried out by the perpetrator

D) May involve the use of physical force
Returning to attack a perpetrator after rescuing an incapacitated person from assault is a form of self-defense?

True

False
Exercising ones’ right to self-defense may sometimes lead to serious injury or unavoidable death.

True

False
All self-defense actions that may cause serious bodily injury or death must be carefully weighed.

True

False
Which of the principles of self-defense expects that a target of violence will not use physical force in self-defense if they have the option of retreating to safety?

A) Avoidance

B) Reasonableness

C) Innocence

D) Proportionality
The principle of Proportionality expects that the degree of physical force used by a survivor in self-defense should be proportional to the degree of physical force with which the survivor is threatened.

True

False
Which of the following is an advantage of self-defense?

A) Self confidence

B) Physical fitness

C) Improved social skills

D) All of the above
Which of these is an advantage of self-defense?

A) Ensures you are safe

B) Keeps you away from trouble with the law

C) Accelerated mental performance

D) All of the above
You may not be able to control the actions of others, but you can decide to ____________ to protect yourself.

A) be curious

B) be well equipped

C) be aggressive

D) be attractive

Questions on Self-Defense

Please select an answer for each of the questions below. Click the submit button when you have completed the post-test.

What is Self-defense?

Which of the following is not in self-defense?

Returning to attack a perpetrator after rescuing an incapacitated person from assault is a form of self-defense?

Exercising ones’ right to self-defense may sometimes lead to serious injury or unavoidable death.

All self-defense actions that may cause serious bodily injury or death must be carefully weighed.

Which of the principles of self-defense expects that a target of violence will not use physical force in self-defense if they have the option of retreating to safety?

The principle of Proportionality expects that the degree of physical force used by a survivor in self-defense should be proportional to the degree of physical force with which the survivor is threatened.

Which of the following is an advantage of self-defense?

Which of these is an advantage of self-defense?

You may not be able to control the actions of others, but you can decide to ____________ to protect yourself.