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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 Ellador create a chart about?
(a) Good health practices.
(b) World languages.
(c) International geography.
(d) World religions.

2. What are the elder women protecting the men from by keeping them imprisoned?
(a) The young women.
(b) Their country's dangerous terrain.
(c) Making social faux-pas.
(d) The country's wild beasts.

3. What does Moadine assume about poor women?
(a) That they do not have children.
(b) That they are lazy.
(c) That they are happy.
(d) That they are unmarried.

4. Why does Somel say a Herland mother would allow someone else to raise her child?
(a) Because it is unfair to focus all of one's attention on one child.
(b) Because children learn better in groups.
(c) Because the mother knows there are others who are wiser than she is.
(d) Because mothers need to work to survive.

5. How does Jeff regard the girl who is assigned to court him?
(a) Jeff idealizes her.
(b) Jeff feels burdened by her.
(c) Jeff dislikes her.
(d) Jeff is friendly with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Herland, what is one of the marks of coming of age for a woman?

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

3. How do women prevent pregnancy in Herland?

4. What are the men asked to lecture the young women about?

5. What sense does Vandyke say the men lacked in their marriages?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the men's view of a wife's role in marriage? After their marriages, how do their wives fail to meet the men's expectations?

2. In Chapter 9, what do we learn girls in Herland are taught to think about themselves while growing up?

3. Who is chosen to court each of the men, and how does each man treat his assigned partner?

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

5. How did Ellador become a forester?

6. Why is Terry banished from Herland at the end of Chapter 11?

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

8. Following the lecture in Chapter 8, the girls form informal groups around the men. Describe how the girls react to Terry.

9. What reason does Moadine give Terry for the men's ongoing imprisonment?

10. In Chapter 7, why has Terry sunk in the esteem of his friends?

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