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

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

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

4. How old was Offred’s mother when she had the baby?
(a) 18.
(b) 25.
(c) 37.
(d) 32.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Moira and Offred meet at the center to talk privately?

3. What are the Japanese doing in the city in Chapter 2?

4. What do the Japanese want from the narrator in Chapter 2?

5. Where did Moira make her escape attempt in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Offred’s mother say about her father?

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

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

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