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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does the narrator think might have happened to her daughter?
(a) She was killed.
(b) She ran away.
(c) She was kidnapped.
(d) She committed suicide.

2. What is written on the pillow that Offred finds in Chapter 4?
(a) Faith.
(b) Peace.
(c) Hope.
(d) Charity.

3. What is the new name of the area in Chapter 2?
(a) Gilead.
(b) Mt. Olive.
(c) Boston.
(d) Calvary.

4. What did the narrator do as a little girl?
(a) Burned her bra.
(b) Burned a porn magazine.
(c) Burned her letters.
(d) Burned photographs.

5. How long is a Handmaid’s posting?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Indefinite.
(d) Three years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Moira use as a weapon in Chapter 8?

2. Whose choice was it that the Handmaids could not use lotion?

3. How old was Offred’s mother when she had the baby?

4. What does the narrator think about first in Chapter 3?

5. When did Offred and Luke try to run away?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, where does Offred think that Luke really is?

2. What does Offred do after exercising in Chapter 5?

3. How does the Commander act before and during the ceremony in Chapter 6?

4. Why is it significant that the women discuss their names at the beginning of the novel?

5. In Chapter 6, how does the Commander pray?

6. What is the role of the Marthas?

7. What is wrong with how Offred kisses the Commander, in his view?

8. How does the narrator feel about the Commander’s House in Chapter 2? Describe her surroundings as well as her reactions to them.

9. Who is the girl in the photograph in Chapter 3, and how does the narrator respond to seeing it?

10. In Chapter 4, What does the message in Offred’s room say?

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