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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 did the narrator do as a little girl?
(a) Burned her bra.
(b) Burned photographs.
(c) Burned her letters.
(d) Burned a porn magazine.

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

3. Who is pregnant in Chapter 2?
(a) The Commander’s Wife.
(b) Offred.
(c) Ofglen.
(d) Ofwarren.

4. How many babies are currently born disfigured, according to Chapter 8?
(a) One in five.
(b) One in ten.
(c) One in four.
(d) One in two.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Offred think happened to Luke?

2. Why was the narrator stressed around Moira in Chapter 3?

3. What kind of flower does Offred smell in Chapter 6?

4. What do the guards in Chapter 1 have that nobody else does?

5. Where did Moira leave Aunt Elizabeth in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Offred’s role different from that of the Commander’s Wife?

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

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

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

5. What is the role of the Marthas?

6. Why don’t the Aunts have guns?

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

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

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

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

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