How Well do you Know The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood's frighteningly believable dystopian novel is the subject of this How Well do you Know quiz.

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On Nov 18, 2016
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The book has several epigraphs, one of which establishes the biblical precedent for Handmaid's. Which book of the Bible does it reference?

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What illicit thing does the commander demand of Offred when he summons her to his office at night?

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True or false: Offred had a husband and child in her pre-Gilead life

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Each of the different types of women in Gilead have to wear clothes of a particular colour. Handmaids wear red, and Wives blue but what is the name of the women who wear green?

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How did Offred's predecessor die?

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What is the name of the centre situated in an old high school where the women are trained to become Handmaids?

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Handmaids who do not produce babies and un-hanged criminals are sent to clear up radioactive waste from where?

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What is the name of the secret 'Club' The Commander sneaks Offred into?

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What is the name of Offred's shopping companion?

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'The Handmaid's Tale' was written in which year?

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'Gender treachery', for which individuals can be put to death and hung on the Wall, is the Gilead name for which crime?

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What is the name of the rebel group that Ofglen is a member of?

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What is the name for those women assigned to poorer men who wear striped clothes of many colours?

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What are the babies with birth defects or ill health called?

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Who tells the Handmaids this "There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it."

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There is a ceremony where Handmaids are encouraged to punish a criminal by beating them to death, what is it called?

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How is a Handmaid rewarded when she conceives?

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What is Offred doing when she is arrested and brought in to begin training as a Handmaid?

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Written in Latin what does the message 'nolite te bastardes carborundorum' that Offred discovers in the wardrobe mean?

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In the pre-Gilead days, what was Offred's real name?

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