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

2. What is the new name of the area in Chapter 2?
(a) Boston.
(b) Calvary.
(c) Gilead.
(d) Mt. Olive.

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

4. How old is Offred’s daughter now?
(a) An infant.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

5. What was the center called?
(a) The Rachel and Leah Center.
(b) The Handmaid’s Center.
(c) The Training Center.
(d) The Gilead Center.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is special about the day in Chapter 4?

2. When did Offred and Luke try to run away?

3. Where was Offred’s daughter first stolen?

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

5. Where did Moira and Offred meet at the center to talk privately?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Offred and the other women take naps at the center?

3. What is carved on Offred’s desk at the center? Why is this significant?

4. Why does Offred go back to the sitting room later that evening in Chapter 6?

5. Why don’t the Aunts have guns?

6. How does the narrator feel about the Commander’s House in Chapter 2? Describe her surroundings as well as her reactions to them.

7. In what context does Offred see an Econowife?

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

9. Why is it significant that the women discuss their names at the beginning of the novel?

10. Why does the narrator start thinking about Moira at night in Chapter 3?

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