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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. If he is alive, what will Luke send to Offred?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A message.
(c) A tape.
(d) Food.

2. Whose choice was it that the Handmaids could not use lotion?
(a) Their own.
(b) The government.
(c) The men.
(d) The Wives.

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

4. Where was Offred’s daughter first stolen?
(a) The laundromat.
(b) On the street.
(c) From her car.
(d) At the grocery store.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is everyone jealous of Janine in Chapter 2?

2. What is the new name of the area in Chapter 2?

3. What is written on the pillow that Offred finds in Chapter 4?

4. How is Offred officially identified?

5. What color is Offred’s bathroom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 7, where does Offred think that Luke really is?

4. What is wrong with how Offred kisses the Commander, in his view?

5. In Chapter 6, how does the Commander pray?

6. Why does Offred have to be especially careful on this assignment, according to Chapter 2?

7. Why don’t the Aunts have guns?

8. Who is the girl in the photograph in Chapter 3, and how does the narrator respond to seeing it?

9. What tone do the women take with Janine?

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

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