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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. In Chapter 68, who becomes enraged at the loss of Baby Nicole?

2. How does Daisy describe the Handmaids in Chapter 53?

3. How does Aunt Lydia describe Daisy in Chapter 57?

4. Who is forced to hide herself, as Agnes explains in Chapter 60?

5. What type of figurative language is the phrase, "kick the bucket"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Agnes receive in Chapter 56? How does she come by this information?

2. What information does Aunt Lydia tell Commander Judd in Chapter 46?

3. What do Agnes and Becka think about Jade at the beginning of Section XX?

4. Who tries to stop the girls from leaving in Chapter 61? What happens?

5. How does Aunt Lydia likely die, as described in Chapter 71?

6. How does Nicole's situation become increasingly more dire in Chapters 69 and 70? Who provides a surprising form of help in Chapter 70?

7. What happens when Daisy arrives in Gilead in Chapter 45?

8. What plan is hatched in Chapter 60 for the transport of Nicole back to Canada?

9. What happens to Aunt Vidala in Chapter 65?

10. In Chapter 50, what does Agnes learn about the Concubine Cut into Twelve Pieces? What is her reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Agnes experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does she change and in what ways does she remain the same? By the novel’s end, is she better for these changes? What makes you say this? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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