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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Ellador's job in Herland?
(a) She is a gardener.
(b) She is a teacher.
(c) She is a forester.
(d) She is a childminder.

3. Why did some women in Herland choose not to have children?
(a) The population threatened to outgrow their resources.
(b) They do not like children.
(c) They fear witnessing their child's death.
(d) They fear the pain of childbirth.

4. Where does Ellador go for comfort when she is upset in Chapter 10?
(a) To see Alima.
(b) The nearest temple.
(c) To her mother-teacher's house.
(d) To her room to be alone.

5. What do the men have a hard time conveying their ideas about to the women they are courting?
(a) Religion.
(b) Leaving Herland.
(c) Families.
(d) Relationships.

6. At the lecture, what kind of girls stay in Terry's discussion group?
(a) Unconfident girls.
(b) Intelligent girls.
(c) Argumentative girls.
(d) Pretty girls.

7. What word does Ellador ask Vandyke to define in Chapter 10?
(a) Blessing.
(b) Worship.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Sin.

8. As the men's tour continues, what does Terry learn to do?
(a) Skirt the difficult questions he is asked.
(b) Be less offensive.
(c) Say "I love you" in the local language.
(d) Play a native card game.

9. What are the two core concepts which Herland's society is based on?
(a) The philosopher and the worker.
(b) The judge and the jury.
(c) The critic and the inventor.
(d) The angel and the demon.

10. What are Over Mothers?
(a) Women who supervise the community's children.
(b) Women who educate young women about motherhood.
(c) Women allowed to have more than one child.
(d) Women who are over seventy years old.

11. What is exceptionally rare in Herland?
(a) Illness.
(b) Rain.
(c) Death before reaching ninety years of age.
(d) Obesity.

12. When are the men allowed to leave their confinement?
(a) When the men are educated enough about Herland.
(b) When the men promise not to hurt anyone.
(c) When the men promise to leave the country.
(d) When the men have been sedated.

13. What are the elder women protecting the men from by keeping them imprisoned?
(a) The young women.
(b) Their country's dangerous terrain.
(c) The country's wild beasts.
(d) Making social faux-pas.

14. What helps minimize Vandyke's desire for his wife?
(a) Concentrating on his research.
(b) Pursuing his hobbies.
(c) His wife's style of dress.
(d) His wife's rude behavior.

15. What does Vandyke note the children in Herland never do?
(a) Complain of boredom.
(b) Get into mischief.
(c) Work.
(d) Talk back to their elders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are food-bearing trees considered better than field crops?

2. What does Ellador create a chart about?

3. How does Terry act towards the girls in the group that forms around him?

4. What is Terry's courtship with his partner like?

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

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