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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, "Their Religions and Our Marriages".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are food-bearing trees considered better than field crops?
(a) Trees produce food year round.
(b) Trees attract birds.
(c) Trees also provide shelter.
(d) Trees take up less space.

2. Through careful breeding, the women have created a race of cats that does not what?
(a) Meow.
(b) Crave human attention.
(c) Eat vermin.
(d) Lick themselves.

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

4. Why does Somel say a Herland mother would allow someone else to raise her child?
(a) Because the mother knows there are others who are wiser than she is.
(b) Because it is unfair to focus all of one's attention on one child.
(c) Because mothers need to work to survive.
(d) Because children learn better in groups.

5. What is included with the supplies that are loaded on the plane?
(a) Female clothing.
(b) A radio.
(c) Guns.
(d) Furniture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Ellador ask Vandyke to define in Chapter 10?

2. What do the women of Herland have to do to honor their Mother Goddess?

3. What are the lives of Herland girls equated to?

4. Where do the men see three figures in Chapter 2?

5. How did the women's society become physically closed off from the outside world?

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