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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is different about the Wives’ birthmobile?
(a) It is bigger.
(b) It is more comfortable.
(c) It is blue.
(d) It is red.

2. What does Offred think happened to Luke?
(a) He was killed.
(b) She doesn’t know.
(c) He is in jail.
(d) He has escaped.

3. Who is pregnant in Chapter 2?
(a) Offred.
(b) Ofglen.
(c) Ofwarren.
(d) The Commander’s Wife.

4. Who does the narrator go shopping with in Chapter 2?
(a) A Martha.
(b) A Wife.
(c) A Handmaid.
(d) A Guardian.

5. Whose fault do the women say Janine’s rape was?
(a) Her own.
(b) Gilead’s.
(c) Her attackers’.
(d) Society’s.

6. In Chapter 2, where do Offred and her companion go before returning home?
(a) To chat with Luke.
(b) To see the bodies on the wall.
(c) To chat with the Aunts.
(d) Shopping for pleasure.

7. What do the Aunts have in their belts in Chapter 1?
(a) Cattle prods.
(b) Cell phones.
(c) Decorations.
(d) Their hands.

8. How many babies are currently born disfigured, according to Chapter 8?
(a) One in ten.
(b) One in four.
(c) One in two.
(d) One in five.

9. As described in Chapter 6, what does the sexual encounter NOT involve?
(a) Holding hands.
(b) The Commander.
(c) The Wife.
(d) Kissing.

10. What are the Japanese doing in the city in Chapter 2?
(a) They are citizens.
(b) They are tourists.
(c) They are human-rights workers.
(d) They are photojournalists.

11. Why do the women say that Janine was raped?
(a) Bad luck.
(b) To teach her a lesson.
(c) To punish her attackers.
(d) To purify herself.

12. How old was Offred’s daughter the last time they saw each other?
(a) Eleven.
(b) An infant.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

13. What stuffed animal did Offred’s daughter take with her?
(a) A bear.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A cat.
(d) A dog.

14. What surrounded the center?
(a) A forest.
(b) An electric fence.
(c) A barbed-wire fence.
(d) Hundreds of guards.

15. According to Chapter 3, what does the narrator see when she is drugged, later?
(a) Her daughter’s hand.
(b) A letter from her daughter.
(c) A sketch of her daughter.
(d) A photograph of her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about first in Chapter 3?

2. Who is Offred looking for in Chapter 8?

3. How does Cora feel about the baby in Chapter 8?

4. What color is Offred’s bathroom?

5. What is the ritual called when the women confess sexual ‘sins’ to one another?

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