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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Becka in Chapter 39, what makes Aunt Lydia so scary?
2. What is the name of the baby taken from Gilead, according to the narrator in Chapter 6?
3. Where is Chapter 6 being composed, according to the narrator?
4. Which man of high standing attacks Agnes in Chapter 17?
5. About what does Agnes say she wants to see Aunt Lorna in Chapter 37?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Commander Judd suspect, as he tells Aunt Lydia in Chapter 12? Why does he think this?
2. Who is Aunt Immortelle? What can she do that Agnes cannot, as Agnes describes in Chapter 39?
3. How does Agnes's clothing change once she is to become a Wife, as described in Chapter 26?
4. What does Becka intend? How does Aunt Lydia resolve the problem in Chapter 34?
5. Who are the Aunts? How are the Aunts described in Chapter 2 and 3?
6. What happens to Neil and Melanie? What does Daisy learn about herself in Chapter 23?
7. How does Agnes feel about her upcoming marriage in Chapter 36? What does she plan to do?
8. What happens when Lydia is brought before Commander Judd for the second time in Chapter 29?
9. What does Garth teach Daisy in Chapter 33? What does Ada teach her?
10. What is the motto of Ardua Hall? What does it mean, as explained in Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how Cardinal Newman’s Apologia is a suitable hiding spot for Lydia’s manuscript. How is the Ardua Hall Holograph a defense of Lydia’s life, and how is it not? Is it successful?
Essay Topic 2
The power of information and knowledge is a major theme of the novel. Choose three situations in which the power of information is illustrated. Explain how each situation illustrates the power of information and knowledge.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the theme of the subjugation of women.
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