FINAL Handmaid's Test Answer Key

Part 1 - Match each piece of diction to its best description. 1. Particicution AC. Ritual where a man is surrounded & killed by a mob 2. Mayday D. A password to a subversive underground organization 3. Salvaging A. Euphemism for public executing 4. Prayvaganza AD. Public display of piety, including group weddings 5. Gender Treachery AE. Homosexuality 6. The Ceremony B. Ritual fertilization 7. Shredder C. A child born with birth defects, colloguial 8. Unbaby official government term for those with defects 9. Testifying Christian parody Part 2 - Puns 1. Habit a. Pattern of Behavior → hard to break b. Uniform i. Loss of Self ii. Conformity 2. Mayday a. Call for help, Distress in a bright time b. April showers bring may flowers (good day) 3. Speechless a. Serena Joy was a singer; juxtaposition 4. Waiting a. Offred’s house has clinical connotation 5. Loose a. Promescruity b. Set free or attain from 6. Falling a. Were not allowed to fall in love so they are now sexual tools 7. How do the puns impact Offred's characterization? a. Two Answer Choices: i. Individuality due to freedom of the mind

Part 3 - Symbolism Selection: For the following statements, select the color that best corresponds. Each color will have one meaning based on Gilead's government's decision for what the color "should'' represent for Gilead society and one that aligns with the "reality" of what the color means in Gilead's society. (Each color is used twice.) A. red B. blue C. green D. khaki E. white AB. Black 10. Aloof and indifferent, attempting to exaggerate themselves with people of authority - Khaki 11. Pure, innocent, hope - White 12. Honor, kindness, and faith - Blue 13. Jealousy and sickness - Green 14. Cold, isolated brides - White 15. Protectors and cultivators of life and potential life - Khaki 16. Fertility, menstruation, and life - Red 17. Warm, steadfast, and dependable - Green 18. Sin and shame - Red 19. Power and sophistication - Black 20. Depression and sadness - Blue 21. Hidden, secretive, and mysterious - Black Part 4 - Flower Analysis 22. What flower is Serena Joy? a. Daffodils 23. Which of the following does NOT correctly represent the structure of the flower? a. Complexity and Ambitiousness 24. Why do tulips most represent handmaids? a. Cup Shape 25. What does the stem represent? a. Male (unsure) 26. Bleeding Hearts question? a. A broken heart as they could not be loved

Part 5 - Passage Analysis Excerpt from Chapter 13: I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory. I become the earth I set my ear against, for rumors of the future. Each twinge, each murmur of slight pain, ripples of sloughed-off matter, swellings and diminishings of tissue, the droolings of the flesh, these are signs, these are the things I need to know about, Each month I watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure. I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own. I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. I could use it to run, push buttons of one sort or another, make things happen. There were limits, but my body was nevertheless lithe, single, solid, one with me. Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black. Pinpoints of light swell, sparkle, burst and shrivel within it, countless as stars. Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. It transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time. 28. All of the following literary devices are employed in the final paragraph of the above passage EXCEPT: a. Figurative language b. Metaphor c. Symbolism d. Allusion e. Juxtaposition f. Imagery 29. All of the following motifs and/or themes are presented in the above passage EXCEPT: a. The moving forward of time b. The cyclical process of female fertility c. Human happiness and the process of obtaining it d. The color red and the body's production of blood e. The pressures others place upon people and our need to meet these unwritten expectations

30. In the above passage, Offred compares her body to: a. x b. Congealed Cloud c. x d. x 31. In context, what is the best symbol analysis of the colors red and black? a. Red, representing passion and boldness, is suppressed by the external influence of the black b. Red, representing stability and life, is overwhelmed by the formality of the black c. Red, representing the shame Offred feels for her forced sexual acts, is overwhelmed so she fills herself with black, representing the emptiness of her emotional state d. Red, the death of a potential life, is buried in black, or failed hopes spiraling into the abyss of disappointment 32. What is the purpose of the second paragraph in its relation to the surrounding paragraphs (I used to...one with me)? a. It clarifies the metaphor of the earth in the first paragraph. b. It transitions the idea of the body from the present to the past. c. It clarifies the literal meaning of body in the surrounding metaphoric paragraphs. d. It provides perspective on present observations using references from the past.

What is the analysis of the nightgown? a. Protection + Oppression = Key Words Something of that wording - Sarah is similar to the wives as she was infertile What is biblical relationship w Handmaid’s Tale a. Abraham Sarah Haggard Question a. The loyalty of Haggard is a model for the Handmaids Last 9 = bbdcccadc