The Handmaid's Tale Quizzes

1. The Rachel and Leah re-education center is located in a defunct...

• jail
• high school
• hospital
• fitness club

2. What kind of weapons did the Aunts have in order to prevent the women's escape from the re-education center?

• stun guns
• guns
• clubs
• electric cattle prods

3. Offred is allowed to leave the house once a day in order to do what?

• see the church
• go for a walk
• go shopping
• spend time with the other Handmaids

4. In Offred's home, what is time measured in?

• two of the above three answers
• bells
• meals
• lunar cycles

5. On her feet, what does Offred wear?

• red, flat shoes
• light house slippers
• red, heeled shoes
• black, flat shoes

6. Who wears green in Gilead?

• the Marthas
• the Econowives
• no one
• the Wives

7. Serena Joy passes the time by doing what?

• gardening tools
• gardening and knitting
• gardening, knitting and singing
• knitting

8. What door does Offred use to enter the house?

• she has her own entrance
• the front door
• sometimes the front door, and sometimes the back
• the back door

9. The Biblical justification for the Handmaids comes from which story?

• the story of Leah
• the story of Mary and Joseph
• the story of Isaac
• the story of Rachel and Bilbah

10. Offred's Handmaid partner is named what?

• Ofglen
• Ofwayne
• Moira
• Ofwarren