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

2. Who is having the baby in Chapter 8?
(a) Warren’s Wife.
(b) Ofwarren.
(c) Moira.
(d) Ofglen.

3. What color is Offred’s bathroom?
(a) Multi-colored.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

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

5. What part of Moira’s body was beaten?
(a) Her feet.
(b) Her feet.
(c) Her hands.
(d) Her torso.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Offred and Luke try to run away?

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

3. What is the ritual called when the women confess sexual ‘sins’ to one another?

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

5. What is the new name of the area in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is the girl in the photograph in Chapter 3, and how does the narrator respond to seeing it?

6. Describe the narrator’s mother as depicted in Chapter 3.

7. What is the role of the Marthas?

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

9. In what context does Offred see an Econowife?

10. Why don’t the Aunts have guns?

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