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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator do as a little girl?
(a) Burned her letters.
(b) Burned her bra.
(c) Burned a porn magazine.
(d) Burned photographs.

2. What kind of flower does Offred smell in Chapter 6?
(a) Jasmine.
(b) Roses.
(c) Violets.
(d) Lilies of the valley.

3. What kind of currency do the characters use to buy food in Chapter 2?
(a) Coins.
(b) Credit cards.
(c) Tokens.
(d) Bills.

4. Who is Offred looking for in Chapter 8?
(a) Moira.
(b) Alma.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Janine.

5. Why is everyone jealous of Janine in Chapter 2?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She has more freedom.
(d) She is rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Offred’s daughter first stolen?

2. What is special about the day in Chapter 4?

3. What is the baby in Chapter 8 called?

4. What color is the Commander’s hair?

5. What do the Japanese ask the narrator in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrator’s mother as depicted in Chapter 3.

2. Why is the narrator in the setting at the opening of the novel?

3. How does the narrator feel about the Commander’s House in Chapter 2? Describe her surroundings as well as her reactions to them.

4. What is the purpose of the exercises that Offred does?

5. Why is the doctor’s offer to Offred in Chapter 4 tempting?

6. What fate has Janine avoided by having the baby?

7. Why don’t the Aunts have guns?

8. In Chapter 4, What does the message in Offred’s room say?

9. Why did Offred and the other women take naps at the center?

10. What is the narrator’s attitude towards her audience, at the end of Chapter 3?

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