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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. What color does Offred wear every day?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Striped.
(d) Red.

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

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

4. What kind of guerrillas does Offred see on the television in Chapter 6?
(a) Baptists.
(b) Quakers.
(c) Jews.
(d) Muslims.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Janine now avoided in Chapter 8?

2. How old is Offred’s daughter now?

3. What stuffed animal did Offred’s daughter take with her?

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

5. Who is having the baby in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. If Luke is free in Chapter 7, what happened to him?

3. In what context does Offred see an Econowife?

4. Why is the doctor’s offer to Offred in Chapter 4 tempting?

5. What is the purpose of the exercises that Offred does?

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

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

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

9. Why don’t the Aunts have guns?

10. In Chapter 4, What does the message in Offred’s room say?

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