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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the men's personal effects is missing when they awake in Chapter 3?

2. Where do the women try to force the men to do in Chapter 2?

3. What does Terry offer to the three girls?

4. What impresses Jeff upon waking in Chapter 3?

5. Where did the author live with her second husband for twenty-two years?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the men note about the town in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

7. As time goes on, how do the men come to feel about their tutors?

8. What do the men think of the games that the guards play?

9. What was the theme of Gilman's work, "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret Gilman's use of symbolism in "Herland." What are some symbols in the novel and what do these symbols mean?

Essay Topic 2

Herland rejects tradition as much as the men's society values it. Why might this be so? What effect does this have on Herland's society? What are the pros and cons of a society which values innovation over tradition?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the traditional gender roles of the Victorian era. How are these gender roles portrayed in the male characters of the novel? How do these gender roles of this era lead the men to judge the Herlandians in a different light?

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