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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 did Aunt Lydia do before the creation of Gilead, according to the narrator in Chapter 6?
(a) She was a prosecutor.
(b) She was a paralegal.
(c) She was a corrections officer.
(d) She was a family court judge.

2. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 20, where was she taken after being arrested?
(a) To a school.
(b) To a prison.
(c) To a stadium.
(d) To a hospital.

3. What startling news does Daisy receive about herself in Chapter 23?
(a) She is Baby Nicole.
(b) Her mother is Baby Nicole.
(c) She looks just like Baby Nicole.
(d) Her sister is Baby Nicole.

4. Where is Agnes taken in Chapter 38?
(a) A doctor's office.
(b) Commander Kyle's office.
(c) Commander Judd's house.
(d) Ardua Hall.

5. According to Daisy's mother in Chapter 9, what had been destroyed in a fire?
(a) Daisy's passport.
(b) Photos of Daisy as a baby.
(c) Daisy's old clothing.
(d) Daisy's birth certificate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator's manuscript hidden, as revealed in Chapter 6?

2. What color is now suitable for Agnes's clothing, as she explains in Chapter 26?

3. According to Aunt Vidala in Chapter 29, who is leaving the offerings at Lydia's statue?

4. What is taken from The Clothes Hound in Chapter 11?

5. Who is the narrator of the first and third sections of the novel, as revealed in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Becka intend? How does Aunt Lydia resolve the problem in Chapter 34?

2. What does Garth teach Daisy in Chapter 33? What does Ada teach her?

3. What "experiment" does Aunt Lydia perform in Chapter 34? What are the results?

4. What does Commander Judd suspect, as he tells Aunt Lydia in Chapter 12? Why does he think this?

5. How does Agnes feel about her upcoming marriage in Chapter 36? What does she plan to do?

6. Who is Shunammite? What upsetting news does Shunammite tell Agnes in Chapter 5?

7. How does Agnes's clothing change once she is to become a Wife, as described in Chapter 26?

8. Who are the Aunts? How are the Aunts described in Chapter 2 and 3?

9. What is the motto of Ardua Hall? What does it mean, as explained in Chapter 6?

10. Who is Baby Nicole and what does Daisy learn about her in Chapter 8?

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