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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, "Our Growing Modesty".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the language spoken by the girls described?
(a) As similar to English.
(b) As harsh-sounding.
(c) As musical.
(d) As sing-songy.

2. What does Terry believe women are incapable of?
(a) Building structures.
(b) Organization.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Defending themselves physically.

3. How many women in America does Jeff say are working poor?
(a) Seven or eight million.
(b) Four million.
(c) Eleven million.
(d) Half a million.

4. After the natural disaster, which males survived?
(a) The aristocrats.
(b) The male slaves.
(c) The elder men.
(d) The male children.

5. In Chapter 7, what do the men learn the women in Herland do not have?
(a) Birth certificates.
(b) Surnames.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Navels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one woman show the men a sketch of?

2. What do the men not see while flying over the female society's land?

3. Where do the explorers suppose the men of the society live?

4. In Chapter 7, with what are the men said to be "at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted"?

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

(see the answer key)

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