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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. Who rescues Daisy in Chapter 10?

2. According to the narrator of the second chapter, who is the girls' favorite teacher?

3. Which man of high standing attacks Agnes in Chapter 17?

4. The first chapter of the novel is taken from what text?

5. Who meets Ada and Daisy at the refugee center in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. What strange occurrences happen after Daisy attends the protest in Chapter 11?

2. Who is the source? How does the source communicate with Mayday, as explained in Chapter 32?

3. Who is Shunammite? What upsetting news does Shunammite tell Agnes in Chapter 5?

4. Who is Agnes Jemima? What does her name mean?

5. What happens when Lydia is brought before Commander Judd for the second time in Chapter 29?

6. How does Agnes's clothing change once she is to become a Wife, as described in Chapter 26?

7. What is the Thank Tank? What happened there, as Aunt Lydia explains in Chapter 24?

8. What happened the first time she was brought before Commander Judd, as Aunt Lydia explains in Chapter 24?

9. Who is Daisy and what does the reader learn about her in Chapter 7?

10. What happened to Aunt Lydia in the stadium, as she recounts in Chapter 20?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mothers are very important in the novel. How has Gilead’s totalitarianism affected the nature of motherhood?

Essay Topic 2

The power of secrets is a major theme in the novel. Choose three characters who keep a secret, and explain how keeping a secret affects him or her. What are the positive and negative effects of keeping a secret?

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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