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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 often do the girls get a break, according to Chapter 12?
(a) Once an evening.
(b) As often as they want.
(c) Every fifteen minutes.
(d) Once an hour.

2. According to Chapter 9, what does Offred think about what the Commander has done?
(a) She can use it to her advantage.
(b) She doesn’t care.
(c) She is horrified.
(d) She is scared.

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

4. What is the big thing that Serena Joy offers Offred in Chapter 12?
(a) A picture of her daughter.
(b) A knitted scarf.
(c) Her own garden.
(d) A letter from Luke.

5. What did Jews have the option of doing, according to Chapter 12?
(a) Leaving for Europe.
(b) Going to Israel.
(c) Becoming Handmaidens.
(d) Enlisting in the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Offred want to do with the cat in Chapter 11?

2. What is strange about the shop Loaves and Fishes?

3. How does the Commander feel about Offred being taken away in Chapter 15?

4. How did Serena Joy get the photo, according to Offred in Chapter 12?

5. In Chapter 11, where does Offred hope she will wake up?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What has happened to former nuns?

3. Why is the concentration camp documentary important?

4. What is the most likely explanation for the Wife’s presence in the Salvaging?

5. What is Serena’s reaction to the cape in Chapter 14?

6. According to the professor in Chapter 15, what might have happened to Offred?

7. Why does the story about the cat in Chapter 11 matter?

8. What happened to Luke, according to the professor?

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

10. What is one sign in Chapter 14 that Offred might not actually be having a baby?

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