The Handmaid's Tale Quiz and Key Bundle

Measure and extend reading comprehension Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale with this quiz bundle. Included are six assessments for differentiation purposes: three subjective and three alternate objective quizzes. Materials are delivered as Word Docments and PDFs.

Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following by taking these assessments:

• The emptiness and loneliness of the narrator’s room
• Serena Joy’s previous life
• The Japanese tourists’ interest in handmaids’ lives
• The Wall
• The teachings of Aunt Lydia
• The doctor’s offer
• Offred’s previous life
• Moira’s escape attempt and its consequences
• The loss of the narrator’s daughter
• The Ceremony
• The news Nick shares with Offred
• Luke’s plans according to Offred
• The relationship between Offred and her mother
• Birthing day
• Moira’s tense escape
• The Commander’s private request of Offred
• A test of loyalty
• A present
• Changes in the Ceremony
• The evolution in the relationship with Ofglen
• Significant life events of the past
• A Latin phrase
• A question of purpose and a desire for normalcy
• A network of believers, disenchanted with society
• Serena’s suggestion to the narrator
• Revelations about the baby
• Jezabelle’s
• The return of Moira
• The function of women in the colonies
• Nick’s garage home
• The savage act of Salvaging
• Particicution
• A character’s suicide
• Offred and the resolution