The Handmaid's Tale

Question 1

“They seemed undressed.

Answer 1

It had taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this.” (5)

Question 2

“Though this is time…

Answer 2

nor am I out of it.” (7, Marlow’s Faustus)

Question 3

“in a gradually heating…

Answer 3

bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.” (10, metaphor)

Question 4

“Now the flesh…

Answer 4

arranges itself differently, I am a cloud, congealed around a central object.”

Question 5

“Let’s stop there.

Answer 5

I intend to get out of here. It can’t last forever.” (23)

Question 6

“I wish this story were different.

Answer 6

I wish it were more civilised. I wish it showed me in a better light”

Question 7

“you ever thought what it would be like…

Answer 7

to be shat on by a truckload of chickens, all of them carsick?” (humour to cope, not metaphor)

Question 8

“the tulips are not tulips of blood…

Answer 8

the red smiles are not flowers, neither thing makes a comment on the other.” (6, no individualism)

Question 9

“nothing is going…

Answer 9

on here that I haven’t signed up for.”

Question 10

“looks down at the baby…

Answer 10

as if it is a bouquet of flowers: something she’s won, a tribute.”