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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 title of Chapter 8?
(a) Danger for Terry.
(b) The Girls of Herland.
(c) Discovering Herland.
(d) A Lecture to the Youth.

2. What do the women of Herland have to do to honor their Mother Goddess?
(a) Behave a certain way.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Follow the directions of the religious texts.
(d) Make sacrifices.

3. How do the men feel about their own society as the women question them?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Proud.
(c) Confused.
(d) Ashamed.

4. What is suggested to have disappeared due to the lack of men?
(a) "Feminine" clothing.
(b) Athletics.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Eating meat.

5. What does Vandyke note the children in Herland never do?
(a) Work.
(b) Get into mischief.
(c) Complain of boredom.
(d) Talk back to their elders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the women agree to in order to please the men in Chapter 10?

2. Which of the girls is assigned to court Vandyck?

3. By Chapter 10, what are the men actively hiding from the women?

4. Where did the men want to live with their wives?

5. What are girls in Herland raised to believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what does Vandyke discover is the women's view of the men?

2. When Ellador is upset in Chapter 10, what does the wise woman in the temple tell her?

3. What assumptions does Moadine make about wealthy and poor women in America?

4. Why does the Herland religion lack horrifying ideas? What does Ellador think about the tendency for other religions to hold onto old ideas?

5. What are Ellador's beliefs about love-making?

6. Why does Somel say that Herland mothers are willing to allow others to raise their children?

7. Why don't her Herland people believe in life after death?

8. Once population limits were put in place in Herland, what did the women focus on, and what was the result?

9. What are the men asked to do by the elder women in Chapter 8? What do the young women ask the men?

10. In Chapter 11, what does Vandyke say helps minimize his desire for his wife? How does Vandyke eventually come to view his sexual desires?

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