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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one way Offred is allowed to pass the time?
(a) Chatting with Nick.
(b) Reading.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Doing exercises.

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

3. What is special about the day in Chapter 4?
(a) It is the ceremony day.
(b) It is Offred’s birthday.
(c) It is bath day.
(d) It is the first of May.

4. What does the Commander play with Offred in Chapter 8?
(a) Scrabble.
(b) Cards.
(c) Pictionary.
(d) Monopoly.

5. What language does Offred think the message in her room is in Chapter 4?
(a) Greek.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Latin.

6. Where is the Commander’s wife’s “territory”?
(a) The living room.
(b) The bedroom.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The garden.

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

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

9. What language does ‘Mayday’ come from?
(a) Arabic.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) French.

10. Where did Moira make her escape attempt in Chapter 8?
(a) The Aunts’ office.
(b) The gymnasium.
(c) The dormitory.
(d) The washroom.

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

12. How long was Offred at the center before Moira arrived?
(a) One year.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Three years.
(d) One week.

13. What did Moira use as a weapon in Chapter 8?
(a) A shoe.
(b) The boiler.
(c) A bobby pin.
(d) Part of the toilet.

14. How is Offred officially identified?
(a) By her tattoo.
(b) By her dress.
(c) By her pass.
(d) By her ID card.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If he is alive, what will Luke send to Offred?

2. What is different about the Wives’ birthmobile?

3. In Chapter 3, what does the narrator think might have happened to her daughter?

4. What do the women in the center whisper to each other at night?

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

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