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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. What do the Japanese ask the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Are you busy?
(b) Are you happy?
(c) Nothing.
(d) Are you American?

2. 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.

3. What is special about the day in Chapter 4?
(a) It is the ceremony day.
(b) It is bath day.
(c) It is Offred’s birthday.
(d) It is the first of May.

4. What does Offred think happened to Luke?
(a) He is in jail.
(b) She doesn’t know.
(c) He was killed.
(d) He has escaped.

5. Where did Moira leave Aunt Elizabeth in Chapter 8?
(a) By the boiler.
(b) The washroom.
(c) The gymnasium.
(d) The dormitory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a disfigured baby called?

2. What is the ritual called when the women confess sexual ‘sins’ to one another?

3. What did the narrator do as a little girl?

4. How long was Offred at the center before Moira arrived?

5. What color is the Commander’s hair?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Offred’s mother say about her father?

3. What is the narrator’s attitude towards her audience, at the end of Chapter 3?

4. Why did Offred and the other women take naps at the center?

5. If Luke is dead in Chapter 7, what happened to him?

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

7. Why does the narrator start thinking about Moira at night in Chapter 3?

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

9. If Luke is in jail in Chapter 7, what happened to him?

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

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