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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. How do the women react to the gifts Terry offers?
(a) The women hand his gifts back.
(b) The women look impressed.
(c) The women appear insulted.
(d) The women do not marvel.

2. After the natural disaster, which males survived?
(a) The elder men.
(b) The male slaves.
(c) The male children.
(d) The aristocrats.

3. Why do the tutors say the men are being held captive?
(a) Because they tried to abduct a girl from a tree.
(b) Because men are not welcome in the country.
(c) Because outsiders cannot be trusted.
(d) Because they were violent when they first arrived.

4. What concept are the women said to be unfamiliar with in Chapter 5?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Celebrations.
(d) Dressing decoratively.

5. What color are the houses that the men see?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Pink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Terry think of the local games?

2. How did the author of "Herland" die?

3. What is Vandyck's surname?

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

5. Who names the land, "Herland"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the men notice about the forest that they walk through in Chapter 2?

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

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

4. Describe the women who meet the men in the town center in Chapter 2.

5. What does Somel explain about animals in her country?

6. What do the men discover when the find their plane in Chapter 4?

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

8. What spurred Gilman to leave her first marriage?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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