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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the guards treat the men when they are recaptured?
(a) Like naughty children.
(b) Good naturedly.
(c) Cautiously.
(d) Roughly.

2. What does Jeff NOT note a lack of in the town?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Noise.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Animals.

3. What is the purpose of the expedition the three men are on?
(a) To locate the ruins of an ancient civilization.
(b) To map the many islands of a tropical area.
(c) To chart tributaries of a great river.
(d) To photograph exotic bird species.

4. What does Terry believe women are incapable of?
(a) Building structures.
(b) Organization.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Defending themselves physically.

5. What did the author complete before her death?
(a) Her first novel.
(b) Her autobiography.
(c) A study of women in the workplace.
(d) A university lecture tour.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the men decide to leave on the motorboat?

3. What is Jeff's surname?

4. Where do the women try to force the men to do in Chapter 2?

5. In the women's society, how is cultural growth achieved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the three men suppose an all-female society would be like?

2. What spurred Gilman to leave her first marriage?

3. What do the men discover when the find their plane in Chapter 4?

4. In the women's society, how does the culture grow, and why do people work?

5. Why do Vandyck and his friends believe there must be men in the society? Where do they suppose the men might live?

6. What is awaiting the men when they awake and leave their room in Chapter 3?

7. What does Vandyke lament at the beginning of the story? Why does Vandyck refuse to reveal the location of the country he speaks of?

8. What does Somel explain about animals in her country?

9. Why did the women's society discard their pantheistic gods of war?

10. What was Gilman's childhood like?

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