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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, "A Not Unnatural Enterprise".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is characteristic of the village that the men see?
(a) The clean architecture.
(b) The gravel roads.
(c) The wild-growing plants.
(d) The colorful flags.

2. What is Jeff's profession?
(a) Jeff is not employed.
(b) Jeff is a professor.
(c) Jeff is a photographer.
(d) Jeff is a doctor.

3. What intrigues Vandyck as he and his party travel upstream in Chapter 1?
(a) The high cliffs that surround them.
(b) The color of the water.
(c) Something that sounds like yelling coming from the jungle.
(d) The guides' conversations.

4. Whose Utopian novel influenced the author's interest in socialism?
(a) Samuel Johnson's.
(b) Sir Thomas More's.
(c) Samuel Butler's.
(d) Edward Bellamy's.

5. How old was the author when she married for the second time?
(a) Thirty-one years old.
(b) Forty-five years old.
(c) Forty years old.
(d) Thirty-six years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author go after fleeing from her "rest cure"?

2. How is Terry described?

3. How many cities did the author live in as a child?

4. What genre of fiction does "Herland" belong to?

5. What does Lane say the author considered herself to be?

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