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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 is the name of the baby taken from Gilead, according to the narrator in Chapter 6?

2. According to Becka in Chapter 39, what makes Aunt Lydia so scary?

3. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 29, which of the four Founding Aunts seemed the easiest to manipulate?

4. According to Aunt Vidala in Chapter 29, who is leaving the offerings at Lydia's statue?

5. According to Agnes in Chapter 13, whom does her father marry after the death of Tabitha?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Agnes deceptive in Chapter 37? What are the results of her deception?

2. What are Daisy's options, as discussed in Chapter 32? Where can she go? Where can she not go?

3. Who is Daisy and what does the reader learn about her in Chapter 7?

4. Who is Aunt Immortelle? What can she do that Agnes cannot, as Agnes describes in Chapter 39?

5. What is the Thank Tank? What happened there, as Aunt Lydia explains in Chapter 24?

6. Describe the statue discussed by the narrator of Chapter 1. What is important about it?

7. What "experiment" does Aunt Lydia perform in Chapter 34? What are the results?

8. Who is Baby Nicole and what does Daisy learn about her in Chapter 8?

9. What happens to Neil and Melanie? What does Daisy learn about herself in Chapter 23?

10. Who is Shunammite? What upsetting news does Shunammite tell Agnes in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the theme of the subjugation of women.

Essay Topic 2

Appearances in the story can be deceiving. How do appearances differ from reality in this story? Discuss three characters, objects, or situations and how this idea applies to each.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of Aunt Lydia, Agnes, and Nicole affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one perspective?

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