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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 is the purpose of Offred's walk in Chapter 2?
(a) To see the bodies on the wall.
(b) To chat with others.
(c) To flirt with the Guardians.
(d) To buy food.

2. What has Janine now avoided in Chapter 8?
(a) Being an Unwoman.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) More work as a Handmaid.
(d) Breastfeeding.

3. Who is Offred looking for in Chapter 8?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Janine.
(c) Moira.
(d) Alma.

4. What is special about the day in Chapter 4?
(a) It is Offred’s birthday.
(b) It is the ceremony day.
(c) It is the first of May.
(d) It is bath day.

5. What do the women in the center whisper to each other at night?
(a) Their real names.
(b) Their life stories.
(c) Their escape plan.
(d) Their pseudonyms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way Offred is allowed to pass the time?

2. What was off-putting about the last man Offred worked for?

3. Where does the narrator go in Chapter 3?

4. What is the baby in Chapter 8 called?

5. What is different about the Wives’ birthmobile?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the role of the Marthas?

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

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

9. In what context does Offred see an Econowife?

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

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