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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the past, what reduced the population of the women's society?
(a) Emigration.
(b) Plague.
(c) Famine.
(d) War.

2. What does Ellador indicate to the men through hand gesture?
(a) That the men should leave.
(b) That the men can share the girls' food.
(c) That the men are in danger.
(d) That the men are welcome.

3. How do the men travel in order to keep their presence secret?
(a) Through the forest.
(b) After nightfall.
(c) Wearing camouflage.
(d) By a river.

4. What is characteristic of the village that the men see?
(a) The clean architecture.
(b) The colorful flags.
(c) The gravel roads.
(d) The wild-growing plants.

5. How is the language spoken by the girls described?
(a) As harsh-sounding.
(b) As musical.
(c) As similar to English.
(d) As sing-songy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women in America does Jeff say are working poor?

2. Why do the tutors say the men are being held captive?

3. How many years does Somel say their society has been without men?

4. Who names the land, "Herland"?

5. What did the author complete before her death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Social Darwinism?

2. What do the men see from the plane in Chapter 1?

3. What impresses Jeff after he has awoken in Chapter 3?

4. What does the fragment of cloth that is found in the water indicate to the explorers?

5. After the anesthesia wears off, where do the men awake in Chapter 3?

6. Why do Vandyck and his friends believe there must be men in the society? Where do they suppose the men might live?

7. Why did Gilman believe it was important for women to take a role in society?

8. What do the tutors tell the men when they are returned to their prison?

9. What do the three men suppose an all-female society would be like?

10. In the women's society, how does the culture grow, and why do people work?

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