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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When are the men allowed to leave their confinement?
(a) When the men promise not to hurt anyone.
(b) When the men promise to leave the country.
(c) When the men have been sedated.
(d) When the men are educated enough about Herland.

3. What does Vandyke explain the men and the women have different ideas about in Chapter 11?
(a) What partnership meant.
(b) What loyalty meant.
(c) What trust meant.
(d) What love meant.

4. How does Vandyke describe the Herland religion?
(a) As pacifying.
(b) As enriching.
(c) As practical.
(d) As mystical.

5. 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 mothers need to work to survive.
(c) Because children learn better in groups.
(d) Because it is unfair to focus all of one's attention on one child.

6. What do the women of Herland have to do to honor their Mother Goddess?
(a) Follow the directions of the religious texts.
(b) Make sacrifices.
(c) Behave a certain way.
(d) Nothing.

7. What helps minimize Vandyke's desire for his wife?
(a) His wife's rude behavior.
(b) His wife's style of dress.
(c) Pursuing his hobbies.
(d) Concentrating on his research.

8. What does Terry say is the only thing the women can think of in relation to men?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Physical labor.
(c) Violence.
(d) Fatherhood.

9. Which word is NOT included in the list of terms the Herland woman have no cultural understanding of?
(a) Home.
(b) Father.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Family.

10. What happens when Vandyke tells Ellador about infant damnation?
(a) Ellador faints.
(b) Ellador slaps him.
(c) Ellador turns pale.
(d) Ellador begins to cry.

11. What does Vandyke note the children in Herland never do?
(a) Complain of boredom.
(b) Get into mischief.
(c) Talk back to their elders.
(d) Work.

12. Who does Moadine say the men would have to face if they ever hurt any of the women?
(a) A violent end.
(b) A life in prison.
(c) A panel of elder judges.
(d) A million mothers.

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

14. What occupations did the men take on?
(a) Forester assistants.
(b) Assistant inventors.
(c) School instructors.
(d) Mining work.

15. Which type of person is Herland said to lack entirely?
(a) Criminals.
(b) Unhealthy.
(c) Homeless.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ellador's job in Herland?

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

3. Who are children raised by after the age of one or two?

4. Which of the girls is assigned to court Vandyck?

5. Why did some women in Herland choose not to have children?

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