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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, "The Girls of Herland".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Vandyck and his fellow explorers share an interest in?
(a) Science.
(b) History.
(c) Nature.
(d) Literature.

2. What does Vandyck note about the clothing that they are wearing?
(a) The clothes are very dirty.
(b) The clothes are warm.
(c) The clothes have many pockets.
(d) The clothes shine in the moonlight.

3. In Chapter 7, what do the men learn the women in Herland do not have?
(a) Siblings.
(b) Surnames.
(c) Birth certificates.
(d) Navels.

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

5. What fraction of the total American female population is made up of poor women?
(a) Two-fifths.
(b) One-quarter.
(c) One-third.
(d) One-half.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the elder women protecting the men from by keeping them imprisoned?

2. How is the author's childhood described in the foreword?

3. What are Over Mothers?

4. What do the men figure out they will be doing at the tables?

5. In Chapter 8, how does Vandyke discover the women regard he and his friends?

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