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

2. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 24, where was she sent after her first meeting with Commander Judd?

3. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 29, which of the four Founding Aunts seemed the easiest to manipulate?

4. According to Ada in Chapter 31, where are Daisy's real parents?

5. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 29, which of the four Founding Aunts seized control during their first meeting with Commander Judd?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

6. What happened the first time she was brought before Commander Judd, as Aunt Lydia explains in Chapter 24?

7. What are some odd things Daisy notices about her parents, as explained in Chapter 9?

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

9. Who is the source? How does the source communicate with Mayday, as explained in Chapter 32?

10. What are Daisy's options, as discussed in Chapter 32? Where can she go? Where can she not go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of Aunt Lydia, Agnes, and Nicole affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one perspective?

Essay Topic 2

Mothers are very important in the novel. How has Gilead’s totalitarianism affected the nature of motherhood?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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