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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. Where did the author live with her second husband for twenty-two years?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Maryland.
(d) New York.

2. Why do the tutors say the men are being held captive?
(a) Because men are not welcome in the country.
(b) Because outsiders cannot be trusted.
(c) Because they tried to abduct a girl from a tree.
(d) Because they were violent when they first arrived.

3. How many years does Somel say their society has been without men?
(a) Fifteen-hundred.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) Nine-hundred.

4. What movement are the author's works linked to by Ann J. Lane?
(a) The environmental movement.
(b) The abolitionist movement
(c) The civil rights movement.
(d) The feminist movement.

5. What is set out for each man at their tables in Chapter 3?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Linens.
(c) Maps.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, how many miles do the men travel to the village?

2. What is the title of one of the author's works?

3. What surprises the explorers about the women in town?

4. What does Vandyck believe is the men's best hope for freedom?

5. How many cities did the author live in as a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Terry do to prepare for the expedition?

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

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

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