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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 Vandyke explain the men and the women have different ideas about in Chapter 11?
(a) What loyalty meant.
(b) What love meant.
(c) What partnership meant.
(d) What trust meant.

2. By Chapter 10, what are the men actively hiding from the women?
(a) The ills of the outside world.
(b) A planned escape from Herland.
(c) That the men are in love with the women.
(d) That the men are documenting Herland's culture.

3. What fraction of the total American female population is made up of poor women?
(a) One-quarter.
(b) Two-fifths.
(c) One-half.
(d) One-third.

4. Who does Moadine say the men would have to face if they ever hurt any of the women?
(a) A million mothers.
(b) A violent end.
(c) A panel of elder judges.
(d) A life in prison.

5. What does Terry say is the only thing the women can think of in relation to men?
(a) Violence.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Physical labor.
(d) Fatherhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Terry insist cannot be passed down genetically?

2. At the lecture, what kind of girls stay in Terry's discussion group?

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

4. Who are children raised by after the age of one or two?

5. In Herland, what makes Terry seem ridiculous to his friends?

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

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

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

5. What bores Terry about Herland in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

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

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

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