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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the men think makes the women look unfeminine?
(a) The way they walk.
(b) Their short hair.
(c) Their clothing.
(d) Their lack of makeup.
2. How did the author of "Herland" die?
(a) From old age.
(b) From disease.
(c) In an accident.
(d) By suicide.
3. How do the men travel in order to keep their presence secret?
(a) By a river.
(b) Through the forest.
(c) After nightfall.
(d) Wearing camouflage.
4. Where do the men see three figures in Chapter 2?
(a) Walking in a clearing.
(b) Following behind them.
(c) In the river.
(d) In a tree.
5. What is Jeff's surname?
(a) Milton.
(b) Matthews.
(c) Mortimer.
(d) Margrave.
6. Where do the men discover they are being housed?
(a) In a house.
(b) In a fortress.
(c) In a temple.
(d) In a jail.
7. After descending the cliff, what does the men follow?
(a) The light of a distant village.
(b) A stream.
(c) A footpath.
(d) The north star.
8. After the men's attempted escape, what do the women do?
(a) Ban the men from playing games.
(b) Put a guard in the room with the men.
(c) Feed the men only once a day.
(d) Light up the gardens at night.
9. What intrigues Vandyck as he and his party travel upstream in Chapter 1?
(a) Something that sounds like yelling coming from the jungle.
(b) The guides' conversations.
(c) The color of the water.
(d) The high cliffs that surround them.
10. How many cities did the author live in as a child?
(a) Five.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Nine.
11. How do the women react to the gifts Terry offers?
(a) The women do not marvel.
(b) The women look impressed.
(c) The women hand his gifts back.
(d) The women appear insulted.
12. How many women in America does Jeff say are working poor?
(a) Four million.
(b) Seven or eight million.
(c) Half a million.
(d) Eleven million.
13. Why do the tutors say the men are being held captive?
(a) Because outsiders cannot be trusted.
(b) Because they tried to abduct a girl from a tree.
(c) Because men are not welcome in the country.
(d) Because they were violent when they first arrived.
14. In the past, what reduced the population of the women's society?
(a) Famine.
(b) Plague.
(c) Emigration.
(d) War.
15. What does Somel promise to provide the men with?
(a) New clothing.
(b) Brides.
(c) Individual houses.
(d) A history of her civilization.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Terry think of the local games?
2. How many women are in the room adjoining where the men woke up?
3. How is the language spoken by the girls described?
4. What name does Terry apply to the elder women?
5. What does Vandyck note about the clothing that they are wearing?
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