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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IV – Section VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Daisy in Chapter 8, what Gileadean people frequently come into The Clothes Hound?
(a) Eyes.
(b) Handmaids.
(c) Commanders.
(d) Pearl Girls.

2. According to the narrator in the third chapter, who lives at Ardua Hall?
(a) The Angels.
(b) The Aunts.
(c) The Handmaids.
(d) The Marthas.

3. According to the narrator of the second chapter, who is the girls' favorite teacher?
(a) Aunt Elizabeth.
(b) Aunt Estée.
(c) Aunt Vidala.
(d) Aunt Lydia.

4. Who is the official mother of the narrator of the second section of the novel?
(a) Theresa.
(b) Tabitha.
(c) Tessa.
(d) Tracey.

5. Where is the narrator's manuscript hidden, as revealed in Chapter 6?
(a) Inside Cardinal Newman’s Grammar of Assent.
(b) Inside Cardinal Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
(c) Inside Cardinal Newman’s Callista.
(d) Inside Cardinal Newman’s Loss and Gain.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator of the first chapter, her statue lacks what characteristic common to others?

2. What news does Ada deliver at the end of Chapter 11?

3. What is taken from The Clothes Hound in Chapter 11?

4. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 12, what is the name of the group dedicated to smuggling people out of Gilead?

5. According to the narrator in the third chapter, who are the servant women of Gilead?

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