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📕 The Handmaid's Tale – A-level
English Literature · A-level — practises Gilead's society, characters, themes and quotations from Atwood's novel
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Questions
In Gilead, which colour do the Marthas wear?
Red
Brown
Blue
Green
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What does the name 'Offred' signify?
She was born in the town of Fredericton
She has offered herself to the regime
She is a former member of the Red Centre
She belongs to a Commander called Fred
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Who tells the Handmaids: 'There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from'?
The Commander
Moira
Serena Joy
Aunt Lydia
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How does Moira escape from the training centre for Handmaids?
She climbs over the wall during a Salvaging
She bribes a Guardian with stolen cigarettes
She is smuggled out by Nick in a black van
She disguises herself in Aunt Elizabeth's clothes
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What was Serena Joy's career before Gilead?
A doctor at a fertility clinic
A TV gospel singer and speaker
A feminist campaigner and journalist
A university history lecturer
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Before the Ceremony, the Commander reads a Bible story to justify it. Which figures does it concern?
Mary and Martha
Ruth and Naomi
Adam and Eve
Rachel and her maid Bilhah
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Where does Offred find the phrase 'Nolite te bastardes carborundorum'?
Whispered by Ofglen on a shopping walk
Scratched inside her bedroom cupboard
Written in the Commander's dictionary
Embroidered on a cushion in her room
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Which development in 1980s America did Atwood draw on most directly when creating Gilead?
The rise of the Christian New Right
The growth of the hippie movement
The campaign for nuclear power
The spread of communist parties
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The Historical Notes reveal that Offred's story was recorded on cassette tapes. Where were they found?
In the Commander's house in Cambridge
At the University of Denay, Nunavit
In a Jezebel's club basement in Boston
In a footlocker in Bangor, Maine
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What is the main effect of Professor Pieixoto's jokes and detached tone in the Historical Notes?
It shows the future society has ended sexism
It shows male authority still shaping Offred's story
It proves Offred's account was invented
It confirms Offred safely reached Canada
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