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

2. What stuffed animal did Offred’s daughter take with her?
(a) A dog.
(b) A bear.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A cat.

3. What is one kind of film the women watched at the center?
(a) Newsreels.
(b) Feature films.
(c) Pornography.
(d) Cartoons.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Offred think happened to Luke?

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

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

4. What is a disfigured baby called?

5. Where was Offred’s daughter first stolen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Offred do after exercising in Chapter 5?

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

3. Who from the first chapter appears again later in the novel?

4. How does the Commander act before and during the ceremony in Chapter 6?

5. What happened to Serena Joy that was traumatic in her earlier life?

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

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

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

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

10. Why don’t the Aunts have guns?

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