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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. What did the author complete before her death?

2. What is covering the plane when the men find it?

3. What do Alima, Celis and Ellador give the men in Chapter 4?

4. How old was the author when she married for the second time?

5. How do the guards treat the men when they are recaptured?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In the past, what happened to all of the men in the women's society?

7. What spurred Gilman to leave her first marriage?

8. What does Vandyke lament at the beginning of the story? Why does Vandyck refuse to reveal the location of the country he speaks of?

9. Who do the men meet while walking through the forest in Chapter 2?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss "Herland" as a Utopian novel. What does 'utopia' mean? Is Herland a Utopian society? Why or why not? Which characters believe it is? Which do not? Did Gilman mean to present it as such?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the gender roles in the men's society and the gender roles in Herland. How are the similar and different?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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