Ch. 25-28 HT Quiz!

Chapter 26 characterizes Offred in a way that presents her as having the role of a...

• Foil Character

• Wife

• Mistress

• Servant

What is revealed during the Ceremony about Offred's mindset towards Serena?

• Sympathetic

• Angry

• Stressed

• Prideful

Atwood uses which of the following literary devices throughout chapter 26 to explore Offred's relationship with the commander and Serena Joy?

• Tone

• Irony

• Motif

• Metaphor

Which of the following accurately conveys the purpose of the lines in Chapter 25, "What was in them promise.. an endless series of possibilities" (157)

• To convey how Offred see's magazines.

• To shed light on something trivial which represents something Gilead no longer has.

• To help the reader understand what magazines can do.

• To showcase how the author loves magazines.

Which of the following statements best conveys the effect on the sentence in pg. 159 "I think I could get some of that, he said as if indulging a child's wish for bubble gum"

• Uses metaphor to depict Offred's desperation for something

• Uses imagery to show her youthful behavior

• Enforces the power dynamic in Gilead

• Exposes how the commander is

Which of the following best describes the utilization of flashbacks in Ch. 28 and most chapters in the novel?

• used as repetition to convey the theme of liberty

• used as a coping mechanism and encourages the character with hope for the future

• to define and recap the character's experience

• to reinforce the plot and serve as an add-on to the start of The Gilead

On Page 158, Butter serves to convey which meaning about the handmaids.

• The handmaids love the smell of butter as opposed to lotion.

• The butter serves as a weird fetish that all handmaids indulge in.

• The butter represents the creativity of the handmaids in the absence of resources.

• Butter is a commonality amongst all Gilead cultures and handmaids conform to such.

Which of the following statements best conveys the motives for keeping women away from work, while also restricting their bank accounts? Select the most correct answer.

• to make it easier for the government to control women.

• to limit the women's role within society by making them more dependent on the male.

• to demonstrate that women were unable to hold such responsible positions in modern society so they were removed.

• to illustrate that women were important in society and need to be kept safe at home.

After Offred and the Commander develop a relationship between each other, how does Offred respond to the Commander now?

• How she always did.

• Offred is talking to him on different terms as she has some sort of power.

• Offred responds to the Commander with the feeling of fear.

• She doesn’t obey his orders at all.

The use of the words, "Bold", "Striding" and "confident"( Vogue Magazine) reveals how the narrator...

• Wants to go back to a time where femininity was accepted.

• Regrets her past actions.

• Wishes to leave her current situation.

• Feels about the femininity of old memories in her childhood.