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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 do Vandyck and his fellow explorers share an interest in?
(a) Literature.
(b) Nature.
(c) History.
(d) Science.

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

3. What did Charles Walter Stetson do for a living?
(a) Stetson was an artist.
(b) Stetson was a writer.
(c) Stetson was a professor.
(d) Stetson was a lawyer.

4. What intrigues Vandyck as he and his party travel upstream in Chapter 1?
(a) Something that sounds like yelling coming from the jungle.
(b) The guides' conversations.
(c) The color of the water.
(d) The high cliffs that surround them.

5. What does Jeff imagine an all-female society would be like?
(a) Disorganized.
(b) Creative.
(c) Harmonious.
(d) Unproductive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the women refer to their society when it still included men?

2. How did the women's society become physically closed off from the outside world?

3. How do the men travel in order to keep their presence secret?

4. After descending the cliff, what does the men follow?

5. After the men's attempted escape, what do the women do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What punishment do the men receive for their escape attempt?

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

3. What was Gilman's childhood like?

4. Briefly describe Vandyck and his two friends.

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

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

7. What do the men notice about the forest that they walk through in Chapter 2?

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

9. Why did Gilman believe it was important for women to take a role in society?

10. What do the men think of the games that the guards play?

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