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

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

3. What does Terry offer to the three girls?
(a) A hairpin.
(b) A ceramic figurine.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A scarf.

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

5. What are the houses surrounded by?
(a) Fences.
(b) Wild flowers.
(c) Deep ditches.
(d) Well-kept gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through careful breeding, the women have created a race of cats that does not what?

2. What do the men think makes the women look unfeminine?

3. Who did the author's ex-husband remarry?

4. How is the language spoken by the girls described?

5. According to the women in Chapter 5, why is work performed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the past, what happened to all of the men in the women's society?

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

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

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

6. Describe the women who meet the men in the town center in Chapter 2.

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

8. After the anesthesia wears off, where do the men awake in Chapter 3?

9. Describe how the men orchestrate their escape in Chapter 3.

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

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