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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 does Vandyke explain the men and the women have different ideas about in Chapter 11?

2. Why does Somel say a Herland mother would allow someone else to raise her child?

3. At the lecture, what kind of girls is Jeff popular with?

4. Why did some women in Herland choose not to have children?

5. What word does Ellador ask Vandyke to define in Chapter 10?

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

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

4. How did Ellador become a forester?

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

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

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

8. Why is it necessary for the women of Herland to control their population? How do they do this?

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

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

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

Discuss conflict in "Herland." What are the different types of conflict? What conflicts are found in the novel "Herland"? Are these conflicts resolved? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and describe the women of Herland. What are their defining traits? What do the men assume of the women before they meet them? How do the women surprise the male characters? What are some of the topics or issues which are important to the women? What is their top priority?

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