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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 note the children in Herland never do?
2. What are the lives of Herland girls equated to?
3. Why are food-bearing trees considered better than field crops?
4. Which of the following is NOT said to be lacking in Herland's literature?
5. In Chapter 7, what do the men learn the women in Herland do not have?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Terry banished from Herland at the end of Chapter 11?
2. 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?
3. What reason does Moadine give Terry for the men's ongoing imprisonment?
4. Once population limits were put in place in Herland, what did the women focus on, and what was the result?
5. Who is chosen to court each of the men, and how does each man treat his assigned partner?
6. In Chapter 9, what do we learn girls in Herland are taught to think about themselves while growing up?
7. Why is it necessary for the women of Herland to control their population? How do they do this?
8. Why does Somel say that Herland mothers are willing to allow others to raise their children?
9. In Chapter 7, why has Terry sunk in the esteem of his friends?
10. In Chapter 11, what does Vandyke say helps minimize his desire for his wife? How does Vandyke eventually come to view his sexual desires?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the character Terry. What are his defining character traits? What does he think of Herland? How does he fare while there? Why is he banished?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss "Herland" as a Utopian novel. What does 'utopia' mean? Is Herland a Utopian society? Why or why not? Which characters believe it is? Which do not? Did Gilman mean to present it as such?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the motif of freedom in the novel "Herland." Which characters desire their freedom? Why have they been captured? How do they try to get away?
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