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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 Paula tell Agnes in Chapter 25?
(a) It is time for Agnes to become a Martha.
(b) It is time for Agnes to become an Aunt.
(c) It is time for Agnes to become a Wife.
(d) It is time for Agnes to become a Handmaid.

2. Where is the narrator's manuscript hidden, as revealed in Chapter 6?
(a) Inside Cardinal Newman’s Loss and Gain.
(b) Inside Cardinal Newman’s Callista.
(c) Inside Cardinal Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
(d) Inside Cardinal Newman’s Grammar of Assent.

3. According to Ada in Chapter 32, the source needs what in order to transfer the document cache to Mayday?
(a) Ada.
(b) Melanie.
(c) Offred.
(d) Baby Nicole.

4. What object does Daisy's father collect, as explained in Chapter 7?
(a) Old televisions.
(b) Old phones.
(c) Old eyeglasses.
(d) Old cameras.

5. How old was Aunt Lydia when she was arrested, as she reveals in Chapter 29?
(a) 43.
(b) 33.
(c) 53.
(d) 63.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 40, who will Shunammite marry?

2. Who is Agnes bethrothed to marry?

3. What behavior, which will be unacceptable in Gilead, does Daisy have trouble controlling in Chapter 33?

4. Where is Chapter 6 being composed, according to the narrator?

5. According to the plans discussed in Chapter 33, Daisy has to pose as what in order to get the attention of the Pearl Girls?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who are the Founding Aunts, and what are Lydia's first impressions of them in Chapter 29?

4. What strange occurrences happen after Daisy attends the protest in Chapter 11?

5. Describe the statue discussed by the narrator of Chapter 1. What is important about it?

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

7. What happens during class in Chapter 28?

8. Who is Ofkyle? What happens to her in Chapter 18?

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

10. Who is Aunt Immortelle? What can she do that Agnes cannot, as Agnes describes in Chapter 39?

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