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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Janine now avoided in Chapter 8?
(a) Breastfeeding.
(b) More work as a Handmaid.
(c) Being an Unwoman.
(d) Loneliness.

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

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

4. What does Offred use the butter for, as described in Chapter 4?
(a) Flavoring.
(b) Lotion.
(c) Makeup.
(d) Shoe polish.

5. 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.

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

7. According to Chapter 6, what is one Bible story that the Commander reads?
(a) Noah and the flood.
(b) Jesus being crucified.
(c) Jacob and the angel.
(d) Moses parting the water.

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

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

10. What does the narrator think about first in Chapter 3?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Moira.
(d) Her future.

11. What is written on the pillow that Offred finds in Chapter 4?
(a) Faith.
(b) Hope.
(c) Charity.
(d) Peace.

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

13. What is strange about the blankets at the center in Chapter 1?
(a) They are wool.
(b) They say U.S.
(c) They are comfortable.
(d) They are uncomfortable.

14. In Chapter 3, what does the narrator think might have happened to her daughter?
(a) She ran away.
(b) She committed suicide.
(c) She was kidnapped.
(d) She was killed.

15. What do the women in the center whisper to each other at night?
(a) Their real names.
(b) Their life stories.
(c) Their escape plan.
(d) Their pseudonyms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Japanese doing in the city in Chapter 2?

2. Who is pregnant in Chapter 2?

3. Where does the narrator go in Chapter 3?

4. What did the Commander’s wife used to be?

5. What color is Offred’s bathroom?

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