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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. What is the name of the temple built to honor the Goddess of Motherhood?
(a) The Temple of Mo'rell
(b) The Temple of Mira.
(c) The Temple of Mian.
(d) The Temple of Maaia.

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

3. What does Terry suppose the women of an all-female society would be like?
(a) Untrusting and timid.
(b) Jealous and competitive.
(c) Sweet and gentle.
(d) Hard-working and serious.

4. What is the title of one of the author's works?
(a) The Edible Woman.
(b) The Yellow Wallpaper.
(c) Anthem.
(d) Excellent Women.

5. As far as Terry is concerned, what are the only women worth knowing?
(a) Educated women.
(b) Sweet, docile women.
(c) Young, pretty women.
(d) Powerful women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the explorers suppose the men of the society live?

2. What are the houses surrounded by?

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

4. How did the author of "Herland" die?

5. What food do the men pick from a tree?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where do the women take the explorers after they reach the town center? What happens when the men try to fight the women?

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

5. Briefly describe Vandyck and his two friends.

6. As time goes on, how do the men come to feel about their tutors?

7. What do the men note about the town in Chapter 2?

8. Why did Gilman take her own life?

9. What do the men see from the plane in Chapter 1?

10. What does the fragment of cloth that is found in the water indicate to the explorers?

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