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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 does Offred think might happen in Chapter 14?
(a) She and Nick will run away together.
(b) The Commander will find them.
(c) She will have a baby.
(d) Luke will arrive, in a jealous rage.

2. How old is Offred?
(a) 25.
(b) 33.
(c) 28.
(d) 37.

3. What did Offred feel the last time she was in her house, according to Chapter 11?
(a) Hopeful.
(b) Sleepy.
(c) Excited.
(d) Nervous.

4. To which period did Offred belong?
(a) Late Gilead.
(b) Early Gilead.
(c) Middle Gilead.
(d) The present day.

5. What does Ofglen ask Offred in Chapter 10?
(a) What is your real name?
(b) Do you think God listens to the Soul Scrolls?
(c) Do you believe in God?
(d) Don’t you hate this?

Short Answer Questions

1. How often do the girls get a break, according to Chapter 12?

2. What was Nick’s role regarding Offred, finally?

3. Who was the man in the second part of the Salvaging, according to Ofglen?

4. What does Offred remember most about the documentary?

5. What happened to the last of the Commander’s Handmaids?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the condition that Nick sets forth for Offred in Chapter 13?

2. How do women come to work at Jezebel’s?

3. What has happened to former nuns?

4. How does Offred react when she is taken in Chapter 15?

5. Why does Serena Joy think that Offred ‘might as well’ sleep with Nick?

6. What is the rumor about how Janine got pregnant?

7. In Chapter 9, what is new about the way Offred reads the message on her wall?

8. Why does the Commander offer Offred a gift in Chapter 10?

9. Why is Ofglen’s question about Soul Scrolls subversive?

10. How does Offred feel about her participation in the Salvaging?

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