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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose choice was it that the Handmaids could not use lotion?
(a) Their own.
(b) The government.
(c) The Wives.
(d) The men.

2. According to Chapter 6, what is one Bible story that the Commander reads?
(a) Noah and the flood.
(b) Jesus being crucified.
(c) Moses parting the water.
(d) Jacob and the angel.

3. Who does the narrator go shopping with in Chapter 2?
(a) A Wife.
(b) A Guardian.
(c) A Martha.
(d) A Handmaid.

4. What did the Commander’s wife used to be?
(a) A preacher.
(b) A TV star.
(c) A movie star.
(d) A televangelist.

5. What is the ritual called when the women confess sexual ‘sins’ to one another?
(a) Wiping the Slate.
(b) Confession.
(c) Testifying.
(d) Coming Clean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Offred use the butter for, as described in Chapter 4?

2. What do the guards in Chapter 1 have that nobody else does?

3. In Chapter 3, what does the narrator think might have happened to her daughter?

4. What language does Offred think the message in her room is in Chapter 4?

5. What does the narrator compare her story to?

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