This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Novels > The Handmaid'S Tale – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Handmaid'S Tale Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Martin Luther King Jr. was a ..... for the Civil Rights Movement. A) Pious. B) Martyr. C) Pedantic. D) Anachronism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Martyr. 2. Did Offred like to see her own body? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 3. Why is Offred a Handmaid? A) She looks good in red. B) She has blonde hair. C) She wasn't captured. D) She can reproduce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She can reproduce. 4. How does Offred refer to her telling of the meeting with the Commander? A) A joke. B) A failure in judgment. C) A reconstruction. D) An attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A reconstruction. 5. What do Aunt Sara and Aunt Elizabeth use when patrolling? A) Whips. B) Handcuffs. C) Pepper spray. D) Electric cattle prods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Electric cattle prods. 6. What is the correct spelling? A) Government. B) Goverment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Government. 7. Can all people from the book take a bath? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 8. In 1984, Orwell shows that surveillance eliminates freedom. This could be called the book's A) Theme. B) Metaphor. C) Character. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 9. There are three new bodies on the wall, who was the first body? A) A priest. B) Luke. C) A doctor. D) A woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A priest. 10. When did anti-nuclear protests reach their peak? A) The 1960s and 70s. B) The 1970s and 80s. C) The 1950s and 60s. D) Never. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 1970s and 80s. 11. Chapter 2:The protagonist is going to do the shopping and instead of a handwritten list, she takes ..... A) A diagram. B) Tokens with pictures on them. C) A list written in the Handmaids' language. D) A list in the Marthas' language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tokens with pictures on them. 12. What is the purpose of this Women's Prayvaganza? A) Arranged marriages. B) A newborn's baptism. C) The appointing of a Commander. D) A change in Handmaid policy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arranged marriages. 13. What does Moira use to escape? A) A sharpened spoon from the cafeteria. B) A wooden dowel from the knitting center. C) A dropped key from an Aunt's keyring. D) A metal piece from a toilet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A metal piece from a toilet. 14. Atwood uses Serena Joy's character to show that A) Some power can corrupt. B) Women will always betray each other. C) Women are always manipulative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Some power can corrupt. 15. What are "Angels" ? A) Soldiers on active duty. B) Members of the Gilead appeal court. C) Executioners. D) Secret police. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soldiers on active duty. 16. How does Offred feel about the Commander at the end of ch. 39, as they share the hotel room? A) That he is sad and small. B) That he is terrifying. C) That he is a heartless monster. D) That he is revolting in every way. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That he is sad and small. 17. Where does the war hit in Gilead? A) The center. B) At night. C) The outside. D) Only on TV. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At night. 18. What happened to Moira most recently? A) She was captured and brought into the gymnasium for training. B) She escaped in the ambulance. C) She got her feet beaten because she tried to escape. D) She was caught smoking in the bathroom which is now illegal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She got her feet beaten because she tried to escape. 19. How does the Ceremony begin? A) The Commander sings a gospel song. B) The Commander reads the bible to the women. C) The Commander has sex with the handmaid. D) The Commander prays by himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Commander reads the bible to the women. 20. The parents did not ..... violence, so when the school called saying their Kindergartener bit someone they were upset. A) Cultivate. B) Ingratiate. C) Benevolence. D) Condone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Condone. 21. Where was the novel written? A) Harvard. B) Moscow. C) Toronto. D) West Berlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) West Berlin. 22. What happens when the commander and Ofglen met? A) He smiles. B) He says "hi". C) He touches her shoulder. D) He just inclines his head. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He just inclines his head. 23. What did happen to Janine? A) She was curious. B) She was shot. C) She was raped. D) She was punished. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was raped. 24. Handmaids in Gilead wear red. What is their main function in society? A) Acting as personal assistants to officials' wives. B) Cooking and cleaning. C) Bearing children for infertile wives. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bearing children for infertile wives. 25. Well someone'll think twice before blowing up this house A) Cora. B) Offred. C) Aunt Lydia. D) Rita. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cora. 26. Atwood uses the character of Moira to show A) Obvious rebellion is not always the best way to beat oppression. B) Masculine behaviour is the most important. C) Women will always win. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obvious rebellion is not always the best way to beat oppression. 27. What is Offred's fate in the end of the book? A) Unknown. B) Reunited with her family. C) Escaped to freedom. D) Alive and well. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unknown. 28. The place where the protagonistsleeps was a former ..... A) Gym. B) Hall. C) Auditorium. D) Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gym. 29. Why does shopping with Ofglen become important to us as readers? A) To show she is not alone. B) To buy the food they need. C) To escape from Serena Joy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To show she is not alone. 30. Aunt Lydia tells the girls they are not in prison because: A) They have not been arrested. B) They are privileged. C) There are no bars. D) They get food water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are privileged. 31. The Eyes of God are A) The secret police and has a winged eye as symbol. B) The bureaucratic system of government. C) Religious leaders who work at the Soul Scrolls. D) Jezebel's owners. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The secret police and has a winged eye as symbol. 32. What is a "handmaid" for? A) To do the housework. B) Be a nanny. C) Fathering children. D) Being the husband's mistress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fathering children. 33. Pictures of meat or fruit mark the stores, rather than lettered signs, because A) These are the only shops anyway. B) No reason is given. C) The society is illiterate. D) They decided that even the names of shops were too much temptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They decided that even the names of shops were too much temptation. 34. The space between these two parts of a graphic novel page is called A) In-between. B) Gutter. C) Graphic weight. D) Panel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gutter. 35. Something that belongs to an earlier or antiquated time A) Parley. B) Insatiable. C) Effigy. D) Archaic. E) Obligatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Archaic. 36. Did Offred accept the doctor's help? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 37. What is the name of Offred's walking companion? A) Off. B) Alma. C) Confused. D) Moira. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Off. 38. Was Ofglen a mom? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 39. Who are the Angels? A) Wives. B) Aunts. C) Special guards. D) Sisters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Special guards. 40. 'Better never means better for everyone ..... It always means worse, for some.' A) Offred. B) Luke. C) The Commander. D) Serena Joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Commander. 41. Which of Offred's dreams does she say is the worst? A) When her daughter fell from her stroller. B) When she was force-fed in the Red Center. C) When Luke leaves her for his first wife. D) When her daughter is taken from her. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When her daughter is taken from her. 42. 1:menacing or threatening in appearance 2:irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner A) Surly. B) Obligatory. C) Archaic. D) Effigy. E) Insatiable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surly. 43. What is the name of Serena Joy's perfume? A) Lotus Flower. B) Lily of the Valley. C) Day Lily. D) Baby Freesia Buds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lily of the Valley. 44. What is Reaganism? A) Feminist policy. B) Left wing Policy. C) Geopolitics. D) Right wing policy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Right wing policy. 45. Chapter 4:Why does Offred have a new Handmaid as partner? A) The former one is ill. B) Offred doesn't know what happened to her. C) The former one died. D) The former one is now an Eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Offred doesn't know what happened to her. 46. Who tells Offred, "I want to see as little of you as possible." A) A Martha. B) Serena Joy. C) The Commander. D) Aunt Lydia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Serena Joy. 47. What is the place being described by the narrator in chapter 1? A) An old house. B) A gymnasium. C) An ancient restaurant. D) A church. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A gymnasium. 48. When the kids get hungry, they start complaining and demanding snacks. A) Affable. B) Peremptory. C) Querulous. D) Monotony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Querulous. 49. The formal greeting in this society is A) Praise be. B) There isn't one. C) Hello. D) Blessed be. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Praise be. 50. Should a man like Nick talk to Ofglen and Offgred? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 51. You ask your friend to get you a ticket to the concert. A) Procure. B) Allure. C) Importunate. D) Appease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Procure. 52. The ..... had traces of the original writings of an ancient Roman poet on it. A) Archaic. B) Palimpsest. C) Forlorn. D) Anachronism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Palimpsest. 53. The title and structure of The Handmaid's Tale echoes another famous work of literature. Which is it? A) Tales of Hoffmann. B) The work of Shakespeare. C) Grimm's Fairy Tales. D) The Canterbury Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Canterbury Tales. 54. The teacher was ..... about particular poetry. She often bored us by talking for too long about it. A) Condone. B) Pedantic. C) Superfluous. D) Forlorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pedantic. 55. What is a dystopia? A) A fiction that takes place in a world close to ours. B) A fiction that takes place in a dream world. C) A fiction that tells about current life. D) A fiction set in a nightmare world. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A fiction set in a nightmare world. 56. The name of the women who work in the kitchens is the A) Mary's. B) Martha's. C) Megan's. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Martha's. 57. A roughly made model of a particular person, made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger A) Parley. B) Effigy. C) Obligatory. D) Sanctity. E) Pious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Effigy. 58. What language is the secret message written in? A) Latin. B) Spanish. C) French. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latin. 59. The extra two pages was just ..... information that we didn't really need. A) Inconspicuous. B) Superfluous. C) Surly. D) Sanctity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Superfluous. 60. What does Offred tell her daughter they are going to do on the day that they try to escape Gilead? A) Visiting her grandparents. B) Getting art supplies. C) Going on a picnic. D) Visiting the Angels-in-training. 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