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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 does Ellador indicate to the men through hand gesture?
(a) That the men can share the girls' food.
(b) That the men are in danger.
(c) That the men are welcome.
(d) That the men should leave.

2. After descending the cliff, what does the men follow?
(a) The light of a distant village.
(b) The north star.
(c) A footpath.
(d) A stream.

3. 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 children learn better in groups.
(d) Because mothers need to work to survive.

4. Where do the men discover they are being housed?
(a) In a house.
(b) In a jail.
(c) In a temple.
(d) In a fortress.

5. What are the two core concepts which Herland's society is based on?
(a) The critic and the inventor.
(b) The philosopher and the worker.
(c) The angel and the demon.
(d) The judge and the jury.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the natural disaster, which males survived?

2. In Chapter 7, what do the men learn the women in Herland do not have?

3. When are the men allowed to leave their confinement?

4. What surprises the explorers about the women in town?

5. Who is the author of "Herland"?

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