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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. How does Aunt Lydia describe Aunt Elizabeth at the end of Chapter 46?

2. In Chapter 68, who becomes enraged at the loss of Baby Nicole?

3. Where is Aunt Vidala in Chapter 65?

4. Why does Garth chase off the Pearl Girls in Chapter 42?

5. According to Aunt Lydia in Chapter 52, she has arrived where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Aunt Lydia learn about Becka in Chapter 41? How does she learn this information?

2. How does Daisy get the attention of the Pearl Girls in Chapter 42?

3. What happens when Agnes and Becka are summoned to Aunt Lydia's office in Chapter 58?

4. What plan is hatched in Chapter 60 for the transport of Nicole back to Canada?

5. Who was Aunt Lily? What happened to her, according to Becka in Chapter 48?

6. What do scholars think about the testimonies of Agnes, Nicole, and Aunt Lydia, as recounted in the Thirteenth Symposium?

7. What does Commander Judd demand in Chapter 59? Why?

8. How does Nicole's situation become increasingly more dire in Chapters 69 and 70? Who provides a surprising form of help in Chapter 70?

9. What happens to Aunt Vidala in Chapter 65?

10. What happens when Daisy arrives in Gilead in Chapter 45?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Aunt Lydia’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways is she a kind person? In what ways is she a ruthless one?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Agnes and Nicole. How are they similar, and how are they different? Support your answers with examples from the text.

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