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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the expedition the three men are on?

2. What do Alima, Celis and Ellador give the men in Chapter 4?

3. How many children does the Goddess of Motherhood bear?

4. What did Charles Walter Stetson do for a living?

5. What does Jeff NOT note a lack of in the town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the women who meet the men in the town center in Chapter 2.

2. What does the fragment of cloth that is found in the water indicate to the explorers?

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

4. What do the women get the men to admit about keeping dogs as pets?

5. Why do Vandyck and his friends believe there must be men in the society? Where do they suppose the men might live?

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

7. What is Social Darwinism?

8. What punishment do the men receive for their escape attempt?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the differences between Herland and the men's society. What are some of the differences? How do the women react to these differences? How do the men react? Why do the men sometimes become embarrassed because of their society?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Gilman's use of foreshadowing in "Herland." What are some examples of foreshadowing in the novel and what are these examples hinting at?

Essay Topic 3

Analyse and interpret the character Jeff. What are Jeff's defining character traits? What is Gilman trying to convey in regards to the reversal of gender roles with the character Jeff? What does Jeff think of Herland?

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