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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 the women of Herland use to educate their children?
(a) Solitary study.
(b) Learning games.
(c) Strict testing.
(d) Memorization techniques.

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

3. When are the men allowed to leave their confinement?
(a) When the men have been sedated.
(b) When the men are educated enough about Herland.
(c) When the men promise to leave the country.
(d) When the men promise not to hurt anyone.

4. What are the men asked to lecture the young women about?
(a) Health and fitness.
(b) The geography of the outside world.
(c) The history of the outside world.
(d) Scientific discoveries.

5. What happens when Vandyke tells Ellador about infant damnation?
(a) Ellador faints.
(b) Ellador turns pale.
(c) Ellador begins to cry.
(d) Ellador slaps him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, what are Herland's women said not to believe in?

3. Who helps Alima subdue Terry in Chapter 11?

4. What do the women of Herland have to do to honor their Mother Goddess?

5. What does Terry say is the only thing the women can think of in relation to men?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 9, what difference does Vandyke see in the children of Herland compared to the ones in America?

3. What displeases the women about marriage in the outside world?

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

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

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

7. How did Ellador become a forester?

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

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

10. 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?

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