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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. How is Offred officially identified?
(a) By her dress.
(b) By her pass.
(c) By her tattoo.
(d) By her ID card.

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

3. What is a disfigured baby called?
(a) An Unchild.
(b) An Unbaby.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A Non-Baby.

4. What do the guards in Chapter 1 have that nobody else does?
(a) Clubs.
(b) Pepper spray.
(c) Guns.
(d) Cattle prods.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, when will Offred go to the Commander’s office?

2. What did Moira use as a weapon in Chapter 8?

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

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

5. What does Offred use the butter for, as described in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What tone do the women take with Janine?

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 narrator’s attitude towards her audience, at the end of Chapter 3?

6. Why is the narrator in the setting at the opening of the novel?

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

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

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

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

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