timeline of handmaids

Question 1

what is the first scene we see from Offred’s life?

Answer 1

her mother being involved in feminist demonstrations

Question 2

what is the second scene we see from Offred’s life?

Answer 2

her and moira as young women in college

Question 2

what is the third scene we see from offred’s life?

Answer 2

her marriage to luke

Question 3

what is the first sign something is changing within the government?

Answer 3

Offred and all women are blocked from their compucard numbers and banks

Question 4

what happens in the same day she discovers she’s been locked out of her bank?

Answer 4

she is fired from her work as a librarian

Question 5

what is the next step for offred’s family after finding out what is happening?

Answer 5

attempt to escape gilead

Question 6

what are the final scenes from offred’s life before the red centre?

Answer 6

her and her child being chased and seperated
being shown a photo of her daughter while in a hospital

Question 7

what is something that happens before offred is sent to the red centre that she is not aware of until much later?

Answer 7

her mother is sent to the colonies

Question 8

what is the first event that occurs at the red centre?

Answer 8

moira is brought back to the red centre after failing to escape

Question 9

what is the second event that happens at the red centre?

Answer 9

janine is ‘derided’ and psychologically abused in ‘lessons’

Question 10

what is the third event that happens at the red centre?

Answer 10

moira escapes again by stealing the uniform of an aunt

Question 11

what is the final event that occurs while offred is still at the red centre?

Answer 11

moira is re-caputred and taken to the jezabels

Question 12

what is the first occurence while offred is at the commander’s house?

Answer 12

offred and ofglen go on their first shopping trip together and encounter pregnant janine, japanese tourists and look at the bodies hanging from the wall

Question 13

what is the second event from the commander’s house once offred discovers something in her bedroom?

Answer 13

discovering her predecessor wrote ‘nolite te bastardes carborundurum’ in her wardrobe

Question 14

what is the third event from the commander’s room as offred makes another discovery?

Answer 14

offred finds out the handmaid before her killed herself

Question 15

what is the fourth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 15

offred visits the doctors for a check up, he offers to help her with her pregnancy

Question 16

what is the fifth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 16

offred partakes in a ceremony involving the commander and his wife

Question 17

what is the sixth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 17

offred attends a birth day ceremony

Question 18

what is the seventh event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 18

the commander invites offred to his office and they play scrabble together

Question 19

what is the eighth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 19

the commander touches offred’s face during a ceremony

Question 20

what is the ninth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 20

ofglen asks offred about her loyalty to the regime and introduces her to the mayday movement

Question 21

what is the tenth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 21

serena joy shows offred a picture of her child

Question 22

what is the eleventh event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 22

serena joy offers offred to sleep with nick to become pregnant

Question 23

what is the twelfth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 23

offred attends a prayvaganza

Question 24

what is the thirteenth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 24

the commander takes offred to the jezabels

Question 25

what is the fourteenth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 25

offred becomes the mistress of nick and falls in love with him

Question 26

what is the fifteenth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 26

offred attends a salvaging which is turned into a particicution of a resistance member

Question 27

what is the sixteenth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 27

ofglen is replaced by a woman who tells offred she is not part of the resistance movement

Question 28

what is the seventeenth event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 28

serena joy finds out offred and the commander have had friendly/flirty relations

Question 29

what is the final event of offred’s time at the commander’s house?

Answer 29

offred is taken away in a black van which she is told belongs to the resistance movement

Question 30

what is the final scene of the book?

Answer 30

offred’s recordings have been put to use in a university gileadean studies class