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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 name does Terry apply to the elder women?

2. Who names the land, "Herland"?

3. How many children does the Goddess of Motherhood bear?

4. What do the men not see while flying over the female society's land?

5. After the men's attempted escape, what do the women do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Terry do to prepare for the expedition?

2. What punishment do the men receive for their escape attempt?

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

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

5. Why did the women's society discard their pantheistic gods of war?

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

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

8. Briefly describe Vandyck and his two friends.

9. Why did Gilman take her own life?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of acceptance. Who accepts whom and why? Why is this acceptance required? Who struggles with accepting another person or group?

Essay Topic 2

"Herland" is an example of a socialist feminism novel. What does this term mean? What elements of socialist feminism can be found in the novel?

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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