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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What aspect of Herland culture has been simplified for the sake of the children?
(a) The coming of age rituals.
(b) The language.
(c) The religious practices.
(d) The way people dress.

3. What was the butterfly Ellador caught a danger to?
(a) Silk moths.
(b) Pom trees.
(c) Sweet flowers.
(d) Obernut trees.

4. Why did some women in Herland choose not to have children?
(a) They fear witnessing their child's death.
(b) The population threatened to outgrow their resources.
(c) They fear the pain of childbirth.
(d) They do not like children.

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

6. What are girls in Herland raised to believe?
(a) That the world sits on the back of a giant bee.
(b) That the world is a small place.
(c) That the world is a dangerous place.
(d) That the world is a friendly place.

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

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

9. How does Terry act towards the girls in the group that forms around him?
(a) Charismatically.
(b) Hurtful.
(c) Bashful.
(d) Overbearing.

10. What is the title of Chapter 8?
(a) A Lecture to the Youth.
(b) Discovering Herland.
(c) Danger for Terry.
(d) The Girls of Herland.

11. In Herland, what is one of the marks of coming of age for a woman?
(a) Having her first child.
(b) Having an additional room added to her suite.
(c) Cutting her hair short.
(d) Living for one year at a temple.

12. What do the men have a hard time conveying their ideas about to the women they are courting?
(a) Religion.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Families.
(d) Leaving Herland.

13. Where did the men want to live with their wives?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) In their own houses.
(c) In communal housing.
(d) In the outside world.

14. Who helps Alima subdue Terry in Chapter 11?
(a) Moadine.
(b) Jeff.
(c) Zava.
(d) Somel.

15. In Herland, what makes Terry seem ridiculous to his friends?
(a) Terry's ignorance of the local language.
(b) The way Terry flirts with the women.
(c) Terry's dislike of the local customs.
(d) Terry's manly qualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is exceptionally rare in Herland?

2. At the lecture, what kind of girls stay in Terry's discussion group?

3. In Chapter 7, what appears to be the crowning achievement of Herland?

4. How do the men feel about their own society as the women question them?

5. What does Vandyke note the children in Herland never do?

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