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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. How is Terry described?

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

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

4. What is Vandyck's surname?

5. What are Vandyck, Terry and Jeff prepared to do if they find there are men in the all-female society?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the men notice about the forest that they walk through in Chapter 2?

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

5. What do the men think of the games that the guards play?

6. What is Social Darwinism?

7. Briefly describe Vandyck and his two friends.

8. As time goes on, how do the men come to feel about their tutors?

9. What do the men see from the plane in Chapter 1?

10. What does Terry do to prepare for the expedition?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

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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