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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 language does Offred think the message in her room is in Chapter 4?
(a) Latin.
(b) Greek.
(c) French.
(d) English.

2. What does the narrator compare her story to?
(a) A novel.
(b) A broadcast.
(c) A cry in the dark.
(d) A letter.

3. What color is the Commander’s hair?
(a) Brown.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Grey.
(d) White.

4. Why is everyone jealous of Janine in Chapter 2?
(a) She is rich.
(b) She has more freedom.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is beautiful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 3, what does the narrator see when she is drugged, later?

2. What color is Offred’s bathroom?

3. How is Offred officially identified?

4. What does the Commander play with Offred in Chapter 8?

5. Who asks if Offred is looking for anyone in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What fate has Janine avoided by having the baby?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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