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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. Where does Aunt Lydia go in Chapter 24 when she wants some hot milk?

2. What is notable about the tattoo Daisy gets in Chapter 33?

3. How much time is scheduled between the announcement of Agnes's betrothed and her marriage to him?

4. According to Ada in Chapter 32, which area of the world has shut its doors to refugees from Gilead?

5. According to the narrator of the first chapter, her statue lacks what characteristic common to others?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Lydia is brought before Commander Judd for the second time in Chapter 29?

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

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

4. Who is Daisy and what does the reader learn about her in Chapter 7?

5. What happens to Neil and Melanie? What does Daisy learn about herself in Chapter 23?

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

7. What is the Thank Tank? What happened there, as Aunt Lydia explains in Chapter 24?

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

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

10. Who is Agnes Jemima? What does her name mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Appearances in the story can be deceiving. How do appearances differ from reality in this story? Discuss three characters, objects, or situations and how this idea applies to each.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of the Thirteenth Symposium to the novel as a whole. How does this final section to the novel influence the reader’s understanding of the protagonists and their actions?

Essay Topic 3

At what point in the story does it become clear that Aunt Lydia is the source? Are her methods admirable? Answer, providing examples from the text.

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