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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 does Garth warn Daisy against in Chapter 43?

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

3. Which noted Gilead scholar speaks during the Thirteenth Symposium?

4. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 46, who fainted during the Particicution?

5. According to Becka in Chapter 60, who is the only person she has ever loved?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Aunt Vidala likely die, as described in Chapter 68?

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

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

5. What happens when the girls arrive in Portsmouth in Chapter 62?

6. What startling information regarding Commander Judd is given to Agnes in Chapter 51? How does she come by this information? What is her reaction?

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 information does Aunt Lydia learn about Becka in Chapter 41? How does she learn this information?

10. How does Agnes react to the arrival of Jade in Chapter 47?

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

Margaret Atwood, the author of the novel, once wrote, “Reality simply consists of different points of view.” Explain how the novel illustrates this idea.

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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