Handmaid's: Significant Moment

Question 1

The Decision

5

Answer 1

• “illegally”
• “normal life”
• “books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no boxes. No wonder we can’t come in here. It’s an oasis of the forbidden.”
• “game of scrabble”
• “now it’s forbidden for us. Now it’s dangerous. Now it’s indecent. Now it’s something he can’t do with his wife. Now it’s desirable.”

Question 2

Jezebel’s/Moira

6

Answer 2

• “informal”
• “evening rental”
• “there is something attractive in the idea”
• “this too is something he has done before.”
• “I still can’t believe it’s her. I touch her arm again. Then I start to cry.”

Question 3

Ofglen

4

Answer 3

• “I freeze, cold travels through me, down to my feet. There must have been microphones, they’ve heard us after all.”
• “eyes”
• “‘don’t use it unless you have to,’ says Ofglen. ‘It isn’t food for us to know about too many of the others.’”
• “risk”

Question 4

Luke/Nick

5

Answer 4

• “night”
• “the message will say I must have patience: sooner or later he will get me out.”
• “wants like so badly”
• “he puts his arms around me, strokes my back, holds me that way, for comfort.”
• “betrayal”

Question 5

Intelligence/Ceremony

3

Answer 5

• “a rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it’s in the maze.”
• “he reached his hand up as if to touch my face; move my head to the side, to warn him away, hoping Serena Joy hadn’t noticed.”
• “revenge”

Question 6

Daughter/Salvaging:Patricicution

4

Answer 6

• “bitch”
• “I have been obliterated for her. I am just a shadow now, far back behind the surface of this photograph”
• “better she’s brought me nothing.”
• “now I’m beginning to feel again: shock, outrage, nausea.”