WV Final

Shannon loved the headstones that were put up for _______

babies

The Wife of the household is taken to a bed where they tuck her in and the ______ is placed in her arms

baby

That night after losing her job, Luke wanted ti make love. Why didn't I want to. "But something had shifted, some __________-. I felt shrunken...he doesn't mind it....We are not each others anymore. Instead I am ____."

balance, his

Bone got religion. Mama took Bone to Aunt Ruths church at Bushy Creek and "had me __________- beneath the painting of Jesus Christ at the Jordan

baptized

She asks him what "Nolite the bastardes carborundorum" means. He says its not real latin but it means "Dont let the b_______ grind you d_____"

bastards, down

At the participation, a man, a rapist, is brought in and those attending are supposed to ___________

beat him/kill him with their hands and feet

Why does she have to be guarded?

because jealousy will cause someone to try and kill the baby or steal

Beau started drinking ________ when he was a boy

beer

Janine is taken to the birthing stool. The commanders wife enters in her white cotton nightgown. She sits on the birthing stool but she is ________ and above Janine

behind

He goes to his leather chair and gets out his key. He takes a ______ from a leather box

bible

Offred remembers back to being in a hotel room, waiting for Luke. There were ___________ in the dresser drawers, put there by some charitable society.

bibles

On the floor is the wife of Warren. "They massage her tiny belly, just as if she's really about to give ______ herself

birth

At her feet stand Aunt Elizabeth in her khaki dress with the military breast pockets; she was the one who taught Gyn Ed...At her side stands the _____________- stool." Everyone in the district is supposed to be there. There must be 25 or 30

birthing

He is wearing _______ uniform. His hair is silver. He looks like he's posing for an ad for vodka in the old glossy magazines

black

The commanders wife had _______ hair and her __________ were plucked into thin arches lines

blonde, eyebrows

"Each month I watch for ________, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure."

blood

There are several umbrellas in it; black for the commander, ______ for the commanders wife and the one assigned to me, which is ______

blue, red

What is hanging from hooks on the Wall?

bodies of 6 doctors

To him I'm no longer merely a usable b_____...to him, I am not merely empty

body

"And then, nine years later, Maria Teresa, his final attempt at a ____ misfiring."

boy

The handmaids chant, "B__________, b___________"

breathe, breathe

Name one of Bones injuries

broken right shoulder

Daddy Glen looked at me standing there. "I know how much your Mama loves you," he said, putting his hand on my arm, squeezing tight. When he let me go, there was a _________

bruise

Leandro got out of politics and became a _________

builder

Offred knows that this gift was supposed to have been ______

burned

The commanders wife said. "As far as Im concerned, this is like a ___________ transaction...As for my husband, he's just that. My husband. I want that perfectly clear. Till death do us part/"

business/bank

Minerva offered Sinitra a ________ as a friendship token

button, pin

Nicks one of the Guardians assigned to the household. He is washing the ______. When he sees Offred, he begins to whistle and then he _______. He has taken a risk in doing so.

car, winks

They went over to Glens parents house every other month to _________

celebrate something

"I honestly believed we were seeing the last days of the regime. Shortages were everywhere. Trujillo was doing all the crazy things of. trapped animal. In church in a drunken stupor, he seized the _______

chalice

"I almost made it out. They got me as far as Salem, then in a truck full of ____________ to Maine"

chickens

Raylene tells Bone that she made her lover choose between her ______ and her. She said, "it should never have come to that."

child

"There are no dates after the mid-eighties. This must have been one of the schools that we closed down then, for lack of ______________

children

Shannon told stories about ___________________

children dying, decapitations, accidents with machinery

"My aunts treated my uncles like ____________... ________ could do anything, and everything that they did, no matter how violent or mistaken, was viewed with humor and understanding."

children/boys, they

Dede said she saw __________ marks on Minervas throat and on Mates neck. All three were ________ to death

choke/handprints, clubbed

The Action Clero-Cultural was the name of the underground group organized by the ________ Patria joined

church

Serena hands Offred a _____________. "Find yourself a match," she says

cigarette

When I meet people at school whom I like and want to entertain, I want a wife who will ______________ and ____________

clean and prepare the house and get the kids to bed

In Ch 45, "Serena Joy has come out the front door" She calls Offers and says she found lipstick in the ______ and then shows her the ______________. "behind my back," she says...."Just like the other one. A slut. You'll end up the same"

cloak, club outfit

I lie on the floor in my ______. I trace the scrawled writing Nolite the barstardes carborundorum

closet

Offred examines her bedroom. She looks in the ______- with her red woolen cape and shawl and dresses. "I knelt to examine the floor, and there it was in tiny writing, quite fresh...scratched with a pin...or fingernail. Nolite the bastards carborundorum (don't let the bastards grind you down)

closet

Minou designs ________ and teaches at the _______________

closing for children, university (poetry and politics)

Moira tells Offers that she saw her mother in a film about the __________ offers mother was wrapped in one of those _____ things

colonies, grey

Mr. Pearl will not handle singers that are _________

colored

He tells her, "He ______________ wants to see you. In his office. tomorrow

commander

The garden is the domain of the _____________'s wife

commanders

They suspended the ____________

constitution

"In the afternoons we lay on our _____ for an hour in the gymnasium between 3 and 4"

cots

Unle Earle been sent to the _____________ because he _________________

country farm because he smashed a guys jaw and smashed a window

The guard took away everyones _______________ because they said this was a symbol of a plot

crucifixes

"I started doing more housework, more baking. I tried not to _____ at mealtimes...by this time I started to ____ without warning

cry

The Wife begins to _____

cry

They tell Pena that they had to go to Dr. Delia to talk to her about their ______

cycles/women things

Offred flashes back to the past when she is running with her _________. She's only half awake because of the pill I gave her...then the shots come.

daughter

Offred says "Thank God, I thought she was _____." Moira replies, "You should wish it for her."

dead

Offred runs into a funeral procession of three Econowives. One carries a black jar. What is in the jar?

dead baby/fetus/ashes

In the colonies they spend their time cleaning up ___________

dead bodies, radioactive material, trash

Moira marched straight out the front door "with the bearing of a person who knew where she was going" and ______________

disappeared, couldn't find her after that

Her job was to transfer books to computer ______ to cut down on storage space. After the books were transferred they were supposed to go to the _________, but sometimes she took them home

discs, shredder

The big Emerge van, the one with the machines and the mobile ______ is parked farther along the circular drive

doctors

The d_______ are still in the van outside. Was it all right, one asks.

doctors

Bone was sent to live with Ruth because Ruth was ______________-

dying from cancer, very sick

Rita is peeling carrots. She is older than Cora who has dimples in each ear where she used to have __________

earrings

The women of the poor men are called __________

econowives

The wives cluster around the bed and coo and congratulate. But our narrator feels their e_____/jealousy. It radiates off of them

envy

This chapter is in the ______ form from Maria Teresas point of view

epistolary

"I look up....its a black van with the white-winged ____ on the side." Two ______, in gray suits, leap from the opening double doors at the back.

eye, eyes

Offred goes back to her room and puts her nightgown on. She finds the butter in her shoe and rubs it on her _______________. Buttered, I lie on my single bed, flat, like a piece of toast

face and hands

On her window seat is a cushion with the word _________ in petit point.

faith

It is hot and humid in her room and she was given a small ____. If she were ______, she know how to take it apart

fan, Moira

Prieto, the yard boy, has been spying on the Mirabal family. He is promoted to ______ in order to get him away from the house

farm boy, work with the pigs

Glen got a new job driving a route for his __________

father/ sunshine dairy

We reasoned to identify the inhabitants of the house were these "Documents" were found. We thought they might have belonged to the underground ________________

femaleroad

Minerva says, "The _________ in my lungs cleared up." So now she doesn't have TB

fluid, tuberculosis

Ruth told Bone that Beau and Earle tried to enlist in the army during the Korean War but they were turned down when the sergeant ___________

found their arrest records

The ______ of the novel is set in 1994 with Dede giving an interview to a journalist.

frame

Moira was out there somewhere. She had power now, shed been set loose, shed set herself loose...Aready we were losing the taste for _______, already we were finding these walls secure. Moira was our fantasy

freedom

He reads God to Adam. "Be f______ and m________ and replenish the earth"

fruitful and multiply

Alma hair had become __________ and shed cut it short with the ___________

full grey, razor

Moira put Elizabeth behind the _______ where she stayed for 7 hours

furnace

The birth mobile waits to take them back. Our narrator feels her breasts leaking. Fake milk. Each of us holds in our lap a g______ baby

ghost

Offred flashes back to a Saturday morning in September. She remembers: "the little _______ who is now dead sits in the back seat with her two best dolls."

girl

He puts on gold rimmed ________ and he looks like the shoemaker in the old fairy tale book

glasses

Greys mom bought him ________ because he frowned all the time. He was always scratching because _________

glasses, he had a lot of hair he tried to shave which made it itchy and patchy

Because Bone was Shannons friend, she got to _________________

go on tours and meet singers

Offred recognized the hands of the Commanders wife. Shed seen her on television when Offred was 8 or 9. She had been a __________ ___________ and had been called Serena Joy

gospel singer

The Commanders hair is ________

grey

The women in the Colonies wear g____ long dresses. Old women and Handmaids who've screwed up their three chances are in the colonies. All the women there are _________- or if not, they do a little operation on them

grey, sterile

In Ch 1 they slept in the __________ on cots. Aunt Sara and Aunt Elizabeth patrolled; they had electric prods slung from their leather belts.

gymnasium

Offreds dress is called a h__________. It can be purchased at the shop with the wooden sign with a golden lily

habit

Mate hides the newspaper clipping in her _________

hair/braid

On the third night, Offred asks for _________

hand lotion

The _________ crowd Janine patting her and squeezing her

handmaids

"But it wasn't Daddy Glens sex that made me nervous. It was those _______"

hands

Offred realizes the other handmaid who wrote those word had been with the commander playing word games too. When she asked him what happened to this woman he says "She _____________."

hanged herself

Im ________ than I was before

happier

The interpreter asks: are you ________?

happy

When Papa is released , they learn that he suffered a ____________ in his cell

heart attack

Serena asks Offred "Maybe I could get something for you." She suggests she might be able to get a picture of ___________

her daughter

At the end of the novel Mama has disappeared. But she shows up later on with a present for Bone. What is it?

her legitimate birth certificate

Offred remembers going to a laundromat. she says she had such control then. What did she have with her?

her own clothes, soap, money

On the 4th night he gave her an unlabeled plastic bottle. She told him she couldn't keep it in her room. He answered, then you'll keep it ______

here, in his office

Ofglen says to me, "We know you're seeing ______"

him/ the commander

Daddy Glen ___________ at the Pepsi plant

hired and then fired

At the restaurant, Minerva tries to call __________

home, dede and mama

Offred was taken to the doctor for an examination. The doctor called her _______. he offered to help her. What does this mean?

honey, have sex with her/give her a baby

Rule #3 for prisoners: Stay _________ but do not expect anything

hopeful

When Minerva refuses to go to El jefes suite at night, she and Mama are put under house arrest at the ______

hotel

"I know where I am. Ive been here before: with Luke, in the afternoons, a long time ago. It was a ________. Now its full of _______

hotel, women

"When the bell has finished I descend the stairs...the sitting room door is wide open. I go in: so far no one is there...I wait for the H__________ to assemble

household

"Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, off key, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles...How easy it is to invent h_______ for anyone at all."

humanity

What happened to the old one?

hung herself

Nevil had stopped sleeping at home and was living in his truck. He was driving the country roads __________

hunting Glen

El jefe moved closer to Noris and asked what ______________ she liked.

ice cream

How did mama die?

in her sleep

"what he wants is _______, but I can't give him that."

intimacy

The regime was going insane, issuing the most ludicrous regulations. A heavy fine was now imposed on anyone who wore _____ trousers and shirt. It was against the law to carry your _____ over your arm.

kaki, coat

Daddy Glen hits her and says "But if she wasn't gonna come back to me, Id ______ you

kill

"Several days after this interview was filmed, she _____________"

killed herself

She remembers back to when they had to escape their house. What did Luke do with the cat?

killed it

K_________ is forbidden between us

kissing

A Martha works in the ________. She wears a dull green dress and a bib apron

kitchen

He asks Offred 'what would you like?" she says "I would like to ___________"

know

Minerva tells El Jefe that she wants to goo to the university to study ____

law

Offred remembers waiting for Luke to "pry himself loose" while she gets a new job in the ________

library

She flashes back, After being married for a few years, when her daughter was 3 or 4, she went to the corner store for cigarettes and found out her number was not valid. Then she lost her job at the __________

library

El Jefe gets even with Minerva on the day of her graduation from law school by not giving her ___________

license to practice

"It pleased me that she was willing to ____ for me, even in such a small thing. It was a link between us."

lie

"Whether this is my end of a new beginning I have no way of knowing...And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the _____

light

Who said it? "Oh God, Auntie, she's gone crazy as a milk cow, just like daddy said she would."

little Earle

Offred says "nobody dies from lack of sex. Its lack of ______ we die from

love

"Nobody asked her whether or not she had l_______ him.

loved

She flashes back to _______ and imagines that he was shot or is in a cage or he made it across the border and made contact with the resistance. She thinks she will get a message from hm

luke

Offred remembers walking with her mom and going by a bonfire where a woman was burning _________

magazines

The two young Guardians are not permitted to touch women...There are no more m____________-, no more films and no more substitutes

magazines

"And Leah said, God hath given me my hire because I have given my m_____ to my husband." The Commander closes the book.

maid

Who said it? "I wish I could be sure Ruth knew how beautiful she was."

mama

Who said it? "I won't go back untilI know you're gonna be safe."

mama

_____________means butterfly

mariposa

"It was around then that I discovered that Reese was __________ almost as often as I was. In the middle of the night, I woke up to feel the bed shaking slightly

masturbating

On Thursday the three sisters get dressed and visit the ________

men

Mama applied for a job at the _______

mills

As a result of the torture, what happened to her?

miscarriage

The fact is that I'm his _________ another name was _______ woman

mistress, outside

Name one gift Trujillo gave to the school?

money for the gym

Two weeks later Grandma Parsons showed up late Saturday afternoon with _________

money from the military ($250)

She denied knowing about what was happening. Fifty years later when she was dying of emphysema, carefully made up and wearing pears, she said, "he was not a m__________."

monster

"I admired my _________ in some ways, although things between us were never easy. She expected too much from me."

mother

When Bone finds the hooks, Grey thinks that they were used for ______________. They were really used for dragging the river bottoms for _________

mountain climbing, dead bodies

All secular ______ was banned during early Gilead era

music

I tell him my real ____. Why?

name, deeper connection, makes it more real

Bone is told by her Granny that her real father lived up near Blackburn with a ________________- and he sold _________________

new family with 6 children, insurance to closed folk

Offred thinks back to the past when on a Sunday Morning there had coffee and n___________ to read

newspapers

By that time she remembered the paper money was __________

not in use, banned

Because Patria wanted to be a ____, Mama said the girls should go to Inmaculada Conception.

nun

At the store with the Milk and Honey sign, Offred is happy they have this fruit ____________-. She doesn't have a _____________ with her so she can't get one.

oranges, token/coupon

In 1953 in Maria Teresas journal, we learn that papa has died and his _______ came to funeral mass

other family

"Tonight Im taking you ___" "___?" Its an archaic phrase. Surely there is nowhere, anymore, where a man can take a woman , _____

out

Offred remembers back to her past. She was watching a documentary of the war. A woman had been mistress of a man who ha supervised one of the camps where they put the Jews. This woman and her friend were in bathing suits by a swimming pool "near the camp with ______

ovens

Without warning, I begin to cry. Why?

overwhelmed, feels safe, misses her old life

Bone wasn't attending school yet but her mama was bringing her ________________

paperback books

"Besides her ________- and me, no one could stand her"

parents

"We have forged ____________...Well cross in the morning

passports

When he kissed her, Bone grabbed a knife that had __________________ on it and named it into his side

peanut butter

They (Rufino and the three sisters) were buried in ______ coffins. Dede later has a __________ because she had cancer

pine, breast

They Prof Wade and Piexoto and technicians reconstructed a machine capable of ________

playing those cassette tapes so they can hear what they say

Shannon Pearl dies when __________________. Mrs Pearl insisted on laying a __________________ over the coffin. The choir director passed Mr. Pearl a ________ at the funeral

poured lighter fluid over the grill and set herself on fire, embroidered baby blanket, paper cup(alcohol)

They walk by the window of Soul Scrolls. Offred has heard the commanders wife ordering _______ from this business

prayers

"I go back and calculate. Leandro and I were trying like crazy in December and January." Mate suspects that she is _____________

pregnant

Earle promised Bone that he would buy her school clothes if she would _____________________

prepare and sand/clean the wood on the porch so that he could paint them

She remembered the catastrophe when they shot the ____________ and machine gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of ____________

president, emergency

_________ were asking El Jefe about OAS charges of human rights abuses

press

Three new bodies are on the wall. One is a body of a _________-, still wearing his black cassock. The two others have p______ placards around their neck saying Gender Treachery

priest, purple

Moira got ahold of her cattle _____-and her whistle and ordered her to unclip them. She ordered Elizabeth to take off her _________ and then put on the red dress

prod, clothes

Maria Teresa and Sonia live in an apartment above a corner store. men drop off deliveries of weapons and supplies for the underground movement. Donia Hita thinks that the girls are _____________________________

prostitutes, always have boys over

When they visited him he gave them presents. Raylene got a _________ and Mama got __________-

purse, wallet with roses

At El Gallo they sisters stop at a store and buy ________

purses

"Someone has spiked the grape juice." what does this mean?

put alcohol in it

Offred remembers back to college when she was talking to Moira about a paper on date_____ that Moira was writing

rape

Daddy Glen throws her down and ________ her

rapes

Alma slowly gets better "One afternoon Alma passed Mama the __________ shed been keeping in her apron pocket."

razor

They can be read to bet cannot _________

read themselves

In Offreds high school the Beatitudes were played from a tape so Aunt would not be guilty of the sin r_________

reading

Earle brought over his ________________ for Bone

record Player

She wears a ______ Dress and gloves but her head piece (with wings) is ________

red, white

If by chance I find another person more suitable for a wife than the wife I already have, I want the liberty to ______________

replace my wife with the new one

Bone went to the __________ tent in order to listen to the singing

revival/church

Bone spends her days out on the porch in a ________

rocker

Dede took the letter the Lio gave her to give to Minerva. In it, Lio asks Minerva to _____________________________________. Dede burns the letter.

run off with him to seek asylum

"S________ is a valuable possession. I hoard it the way people hoard money."

sanity

I want a wife who is sensitive to my sexual needs. I expect her to ______________________

satisfy me, have sex when I want

"She is doing my face" because Minerva has taken up ________ in prison

sculpting

Jaime David is now a __________ from Salcedo

senator

"Fake it" what is this referring to?

sex, pleasure, fake that you like it

Theres time to spare. Why is she so bored?

sh has nothing to do since only responsibility is to get pregnant

Whose fault was it Aunt Helena says. Her fault her fault her fault...Who led them on? _____ did

she

Ofwarren (Janine) comes into the shop and everyone looks at her. Why?

she is pregnant

What made Alma go crazy?

she lost her baby girl Annie(tadpole) and Wade won't give her another baby

Briefly tell magdelenas story of how she got in prison

she was a maid and got pregnant by one of the men, they kicked her out of the house but kept her baby so she broke in and pulled a knife out asking for her baby back

Its happened, I say. I feel it has. A couple weeks and Ill be certain. Whats happened?

she's pregnant

It was May. Offred saw Serena Joy in the garden with her cane and _________. She was cutting with a convulsive jerk of the hands. "was it arthritis, creeping up? or..."

shears

The __________ tried to question Bone about what had happened to her

sherriff

The Japanese women seem undressed. What are they wearing?

short skirts, showing hair, red lipstick, heels

When the night of the ceremony happened again, Offred felt _____

shy

Sometimes Serena Joy is out, visiting another commanders wife , a ______ one, that's the only place she could conceivably go by herself in the evenings. She takes food, a cake or pie or loaf of bread baked by Rita....They get _____ a lot, these wives of the commanders. It adds interest to their lives

sick

Serena joys real name was Pam. By the time she was worthy of Time or Newsweek she wasn't __________ anymore but giving speeches about sanity of the home but she was never home

singing

"Were gonna play 'mean ____________' I told them again...They do everything their brothers do. Only they do it first and fastest and meanest...I took Aunt Almas _______________ and practiced."

sisters, butcher knife

They are not allowed coffee or tea or alcohol. Why?

so they can be in optimal health

"I know why there is no glass in front of the watercolor pictures of blue irises..." Why? Explain

so they can't shatter it and kill themselves

"And that's how I got free...and realized id just left a small cage to go into a bigger one." Whats the bigger cage?

society

When there was hardly any food left, Mama fed Bone and Reese _________

soda crackers and ketchup

Bone won't ________ to Earle or Raylene or Nevil

speak

Ofglen is another handmaid "The truth is that she is my s____, as I am hers"

spy

Offred remembers when her daughter was 11 months old a woman tried to __________

steal her

Mumps might have been one of the reasons for his s________

sterility

What are some of the reasons for the decline in births?

sterility due to nuclear/radioactive waste, birth control, abortions, mumps

What did Bone do to make Daddy Glen beat her the day before the funeral?

stood up to him, yelled at him, said she didn't hear him

There is an ominous foreshadowing. "Something has started none of us can ______."

stop

How did Glen react to Earle giving Anney money?

stopped speaking to them for a while, very angry, something changed in him

Daddy Glen comes to Almas to talk to Bone. he says that Alma won't get back together with him unless Bone __________________________. Bone tells him that she ________________

talks to her and says shell cow back too, won't live with him again, would rather die

Aunt Lydia tells Offred about the summer days when women in the park would oil their bodies in order to _____

tan

Bone got sent home from school for when she wore ___________

the same jeans she always wears

They ____________- were all offered pardons but they refused

the sisters/butterflies

Minerva makes an appointment with the urologist in order to talk to him about

the underground status, what's going on

"Reylene was telling people that we had a little of that tar brush on us." This means ________

there is colored people in their family somewhere

Mama had to serve cold pork and beans because ____________

they had no electricity/ didn't pay electric bill

What were two unusual physical characteristics of Glen? __________ and __________

tiny feet and huge hands

Manalo and Leandro were moved to a prison in Puerta Plata. Why?

to be killed

Where do you think Anney went that night?

to get money by being a prostitute and ten brought food back

Offred just had _______ for breakfast

toast

"Or I would help Rita make the bread, sinking my hands into that soft resistant warmth which is so much like flesh. I hunger to touch something, other than cloth or wood. I hunger to commit the act of _______

touch

Offred warned the commander to not ____ her face when they were together for the ceremony

touch

True or False: Daryl and James, Daddy Glens brothers spoke badly of women who would leave their children to work outside the home

true

Minerva is suffering from _________- and needs money for ____________

tuberculosis, treatment/medicine

Elsa and Robert go out on their boat every weekend to fish. But they really ___________________

tune into the radio all the different radio stations

the code name for 'privileges" is

turtle

El jefe ha Minerva toss dice to see if she can go to _________. Who wins?

university to study law, they tie and call it even

Doctors lived here once, lawyers, university professors. there are no lawyers anymore and the _____________ is closed. This is the replica of ___________

university, Gilead

She spent her money mostly on __________

used books

"The camera pans up and we see the writing, in paint, on what must have been a bedsheet: Take back the Night. This hasn't been blacked out, even though we aren't supposed to be reading...Or is this thing were intended to see, to remind us of the old days of no safety. Historically "Take the night" began as a march to protest the ways in which v______ permeates the lives of women worldwide

violence

"Afterwards she could not ____ for a week...Her feet did not look like feet at all"

walk

Janine goes into transition. Janine doesn't know what she's doing. She says she wants to go for a _______

walk

She remembers back. Her mother told her "you were a _______ child"

wanted

Bone began working at the diner. Her job was ____________

washing the dishes

Moira called Aunt Elizabeth into the _____________, telling her that the toilet was overflowing

washroom

They agreed to meet in the __________ at 2:30

washroom

Womens Prayvaganzas are for group __________ like this, usually. "Its _____________ not ____________ who give away their daughters." The mens are for military victories.

weddings, the mothers not fathers

Glen wouldn't have the nerve to leave before his father told him ____________

what he needs to do better, lectured him, he was a failure

Explain how Bone ended up in Aunt Almas scrapbook

when leaving the hospital, the news took a picture of her so she was on the front page. The scrapbook is all the news articles on the Boatwrights

What action of Mamas was the most devastating betrayal to Bone?

when she hugs him after seeing him rape her while bone is dying in the car

Most of the singers arrived late. It was a wonder to me that the truth never seemed to register with Mr. and Mrs. Pearl...They never seemed to see all the boys passing ________ in paper cups backstage or their angel daughter begging for a sip

whiskey

Pena drives a big ________ mercedes

white

"Who else could I show it to? Offred says How about your _______

wife

"Some of he girls are sleeping together. I know. Thats the only thing Santiclo won't allow. He says its not right. Once a woman is with a ______, she ruined for a _____."

woman, man

The voice is a ________. Does the voice have a name?

woman, technically know but they know she goes by Offred/unclear

Granny tell Bone "You got a look like your grand daddy sometimes...Man only had two faults I couldn't abide. Wouldn't ______ to save his life and couldn't stay away from _________

work, gospel singers

Well, some of them are real pros. W______ girls-he laughs...The others...that one there, the one in the green, she's a sociologist. Or was. That one was a lawyer, that one was in business, an executive position...They prefer it here too

working

He slips around my ______ a tag, purple, on an elastic band

wrist

Patria wore a _________ dress when she went to see El Jefe

yellow

Ramfis was Trujillos son and a full colonel in the army since age ____

14

"I came close to being saved about _____-times--in _____ different baptist churches

14,14

This feminist classic essay was written during the _______

1970s

"so there have been more than one. Some haven't stayed their full term posting, their full ___ years

2

She had $____ thousand dollars in the bank but couldn't get it. Women can't hold property anymore Moira told her

2

We are ____-legged wombs

2

What happens at the salvaging?

3 women are hanged and the beat a man to death and they all reach out to touch the rope

The keynote speaker is Prof James Darcy Piexoto of Cambridge, England. He says a document, he hesitates to use the word, was unearthed at the site of Bangor, Main. What was in the metal footlocker?

30 asset tapes

Mate is #____

307

Offred is ____ years old

33

Offred recalls that her own mother had her at the age _____. She was considered at risk

37

What secrets does Sinita harbor?

All about Trujillo, how he killed her family since they didn't agree with him and how he's evil

"I want another baby."

Alma

Janine gives birth to a girl. But the wives do the naming. They name her _________

Angela

"Or knitting scarves, for the _______, at the front lines. I can hardly believe they have a need for such scarves..."

Angels

What did the young attendant write on the card?

Avoid the pass

Who said it? "It true? That son of a bitch beat her bloody?

Beau

Why is Anney happy that the courthouse burned down? Explain carefully

Because she has been trying to change Bones birth certificate for a while but they always had a copy. Now that it burned down, they won't have the records so doesn't have that weight anymore

Why does the gringo woman want to interview Dede?

Because she is the only sister left, these interviews happen every November

"Gospel singers had love and safety and the whole wide world to fall back on-women and the church and red clay solid under their feet. All I wanted...was apiece, a piece, a little piece of it." Who said this

Bone

Anger hit me like a baseball coming hard and fast off a new bat said _______

Bone

Who said it? "There should have been music."

Bone

How did Grey and Bone break into Woolworths?

Bone used the hook to get on the roof where she went through the vent and let Grey in

I got the nickname ___________ shortly after Mama brought me home from the hospital and Uncle Earl announced that I was "no bigger than a _______________"

Bone, knucklebone

Who said it? "You want a sip. Might warm you up."

Butch

___________ tells Bone, "But that's because you got a man-type part of you,:

Butch

After the funeral ____________- gave Bone whiskey and beer, then he _______- her.

Butch, kissed

The setting/place is ____________, Massachusetts

Cambridge

They won't send you to the infirmary, so don't even think about it, Moira said. They won't mess around with trying to cure you. They won't even bother to ship you to the _________. You go too far away and they just take you to the Chemistry lab and shoot you. Then they burn you up with the garbage, like an __________-. So forget it

Colonies, unwoman

Offred sees the ________________- looking in her bedroom. He hears her coming. He is violating custom

Commander

Fedrick R Waterford and B Fredrick Judd might have been the names for __________ ___________

Commander Fred

Bone tells Mama that she can't go back to live with _________

Daddy Glen

Resettlement of Ham is continuing on schedule, says the announcer. They are transporting them to National Homeland One in North _________.

Dakota

Mama and _______ raised the children between them

Dede

Margarita Mirabal is now a __________. What two women gave her one for school?

Dede ad Minerva

"She _________ acted like her mamas illness was her personal cross to bear"

Deedee

Aunt Raylene slapped ____________ and told her she had to get dressed and go to the funeral.

Deedee

Who said it? "I ant going"

Deedee

Before going to the capital for questioning, Papa asks Minerva to "deliver some money to a client in San Fransisco." What does this mean?

Deliver money to his other women/family

At the commanders office, Offred reads magazines and books. He watches her. She's reading Hard Times by Charles _________

Dickins

___________ is a perfect example of the selfish kind. She steals into our food locker, she swipes our underwear from the central rod when we aren't looking, and she had been known to report us for wall tapping with cell #60

Dinorah

"I got enough paper shell pecans to make two dozen pies" says _________. He wanted Anney to bake pies while he told stories to the girls

Earle

Who said it? "Ant no woman ever gonna put me in jail."

Earle

Who said it? "If I hadn't been twice her height and six times as scared, shed have left me a eunuch."

Earle

_______gave mama a little electric record player and four records

Earle

Ofglen and Offred goes for a walk. Offred remembers walking inside the wall when there was a university. She says those buildings belong to the ______

Eyes

True or False: Anney says she's going to get a divorce

False

True or False: Bodine Waddell, Glens dad, owned the Chevrolet Car dealership

False

True or False: Bone and Reese played with their cousins in the treehouse

False

True or False: Folks at the diner said Anney was as young looking when she started working there

False

True or False: Glen usually beat Bone with a branch from a weeping willow tree

False

True or False: The doctor called the police and reported Anney for child abuse

False

True or False: The pregnant woman is allowed to take pain killers while birthing

False

True or False: Their momma(granny) made them tell the man what they did and they had to pick ten extra hours for free

False

True or False: This is Janines third baby

False, its her second

Who said it? "he ant gonna die...But a doctor should have a look at him."

Fay

Bone thinks Mama and Glen have gone to ___________ or ___________

Florida or California

Te narrarators name is Offred, a Handmaid in the republic of ________

Gilead

"You think you're so special" __________ jeered. "Act like you piss and rose water and honey. Think you're too good to be straightened out. Your mama has spoiled you. She don't know what a lazy, stubborn girl you are, but I do."

Glen

Ruth tells Anney that Bone is never going to be safe with _______

Glen

Who said it? "You think you can say anything you damn well please? You got another thing coming."

Glen

Ruth asked Bone if _________ had ever hurt her "down there." Bone answered by saying _____

Glen, no

Alma gave Bone a big paperback edition of _________ to read. Bone realized she would not belong to the same social class as Miss ___________- but she's part of the trash down in the mud-stained cabins, fighting with the darkies

Gone with the wind, Scarlett

"__________ always loved her boy children more."

Granny

"That boys got something wrong with him." __________- said this about __________

Granny about Glen Waddell

The setting of the novel is ____________(place) and ___________(time)

Greenville, SC, 1955

The _____________- aren't real soldiers. They're used or routine policing and other menial functions

Guardians

What does he give her to wear? Explain

He gives her a theatrical outfit with sequins and feathers

What happens to Ruth Ann (Bone) in the car when they are waiting for Mama to have the baby

He molested her with his hand

Lio Morales was a teacher of _______ ate the university. Why did hi name appear in the newspaper?

He was a professor of and was an enemy of the state

What are the problems Dede is experiencing in her marriage to Jaimito

He was becoming extremely controlling, only liked things his way. He told Dede he would leave her if she works with her sisters

Why did Aunt Alma move out on Uncle Wade

He was messing around with other women

"The White Horse Cafe was a good choice...Mama smiled, jokes, slapped ass, and firmly passed back anything that looked like a down payment on something she didn't want to sell." What is it she doesn't want to sell?

Her body/sex

Mate reads Mama the newspaper because

Her mother cannot read

"One winter we spent three months staying over with Aunt Alma..." What lie did Bone tell at the new district school

Her name was Roseanne Carter from Atlanta

What did Sinita do at the end of the play that caused Ramfis to interfere?

Hold up a bow and slowly aimed at Trujillo

One of the themes of the novel is

Human freedom: Trujillo truest take their rights, they fight to get them back

"In New York it was called the Manhattan Cleanup. There were bonfires in Times Square. What did they burn?

Inappropriate clothing

"It was no good, you know." Ofglen says near the side of my head. "It was a shredder after all. She means ________'s baby

Janine

The red birth mobile arrives and they get in it. They are going to see ___________ give birth. The chances are one in four that she will ________

Janine, unhealthy baby

"Know what they call this place among themselves? __________

Jezebelles

The author of this novel is _______________. She lives in ________

Julia Alvarez, Vermont

He asks her, "I want you to _______ me." when she does he says, "Not like that. As if you ______ it.

Kiss, mean

The first member of the family to be arrested was ________________

Leandro (Palomino)

What do the Boatwrights do to help Anney and Glen after the death of the baby

Let them stay with Alma for a while, Alma cooked and cleaned and took them over for a while to get Anney back on her feet. Supported them

The L______ is like a temple

Library

Dede is the company's top _______ ________ salesperson

Life Insurance

Dede met _______ at a reception. He says, "The nightmare is over, Dede. Look at what the girls have done." "He means free elections, had presidents now but put in power properly."

Lio

What was inside the lining of the purse that Minerva left at the party?

Lios letters

Offred remembers when she and _______- used to walk together on these cement sidewalks

Luke

In Chapter 25 Cora dropped the breakfast tray when she saw Offred ________________. Cora thought she was ________.

Lying on the floor, dead

"Nothing will ever hit you this hard," Aunt Ruth promised. Explain what she is referring to in this quotation

Lyle dying in the car accident

Who said it? "Bone, you're Aunt Ruth died early this morning"

Mama

Who said it? "I can tell when you're mad, you know. You get that storm-cloud look on your face.."

Mama

Who said it? "Oh God...I love him. I know you'll hate me. Sometimes I hate myself, but I love him."

Mama

Who said it? "Why honey? Why did you have to act like that. The funerals tomorrow."

Mama

Minerva notices that some of ________'s teeth were broken off

Manalo

Minerva marries ________ who is another law student

Manolo

At the end of the chapter, _____________________'s journal has to be _______

Maria Teresa, burned

A national underground is forming. Minervas secret name is ________

Mariposa(butterfly)

Rita and Cora are _______

Marthas

"They stripped me _______ down to my slip and brassiere and made me lie down on this long metal table..." They brought in _________. How did they torture her?

Mate, Leandro, they shocked her

"How when we were asked to identify ourselves, what she (Dede) said was -I will never forget this-she said, My name is _________________

Minerva Mirabal

"Last night at dinner, _________ announced that this year she's giving up swimming in our lagoon in exchange for divine help in becoming a ______"

Minerva, Lawyer

Fela has set up an altar with the pictures of ___________ and ____________

Minerva, Patria Maria Teresa

_______ refused to accept pardon because she said it meant they had _______________________

Minerva, they had something to be pardoned for

Minervas baby is named __________

Minou

Dede kept Manalos death a secret from ________. Explain how he died

Minou,

"I must have been there three weeks when _______ came"

Moira

"Then I se her. ___________. She's standing with two other women, over near the fountain. I have to look hard, again, to make sure its her;...shes dressed absurdly, in a black outfit of once-shiny satin that looks worse for wear, its a strapless, wired from the inside, pushing up the breasts...the whole costume, antique and bizarre

Moira

Offred hears the ambulance siren that night and sees the ambulance taking M_____ away

Moira

Ofglen reveals that she isn't a true believer. "You didn't think I was the only one, "Offglen says don't say a word". Offred wants to ask if she's seen ______

Moira

They meet in the washroom. __________ tells Offred about her escape when she walked out of the center wearing Aunt elizabeths brown outfit. She hid with family who gave her clothes and burned her robes. Then she stayed with a _______ family who were part of the ________________- female road. She was trying to get to ________

Moira, Quaker, Underground, Canada

Jainito went away to ________ for a time to work in a factory to earn money to save their farm

NYC

What family member is released from prison?

Nelson

They couldn't read them. _____________ were censored and some closed down

Newspapers

"As Im standing up I hear the black van. I hear it before I see it...Two men detach themselves from the shape of it...Worse is coming then...I expect a stranger, but its______ who pushes open the door. "its all right. Its Mayday. Go with them...trust me. "

Nick

"I could just squirt it into a bottle and you could pour it in," _______- says

Nick

Offred walks downstairs to the sitting room. She hears someone in the room. It is ______. "He puts his hand on my arm, pulls me against him, his mouth on mine, what else comes from denial

Nick

Serena Joy confides in Offred to have sex with _____. "we just won't tell him, will we?"

Nick

_______ gives the signal when Offred should visit the Commander

Nick

_______- walks in....He takes his place behind me. He's so close the tip of his boot is touching my foot. Serena Joy comes in and then the others. The television is turned on. A male choir sings 'Come to the church in the wildwood' Offred is allowed to watch the news the evening of the Ceremony.

Nick

His _____ posture disapproves of me, or am I imagining it? Does he know what Ive got under this _____, did he procure it?And if so, does this make him angry or lustful or envious or anything at all? We do have something in common: both of us are supposed to be invisible, both of us are functionaries. I wonder if he knows this

Nick, cloak

Do we know the fate of our narrator?

No, we don't know whether she escaped or got caught or even executed

"Trujillo is in hot water ow, and he knows it. He has put on a good show when the ______ comes."

OAS

For the Ceremony Serena Joy is outspread. Her legs are apart and _________ lies between them, her head is on her stomach. Serena Joy is clothed

Offred

The commander has sex with ___________. "what is going on in this room, under Serena Joys silvery canopy is not exciting. It has nothing to do with passion or love or romance...This is not recreation, even for the Commander. This is serious __________

Offred, business

When Offred goes shopping, there is a new _________

Ofglen

Maria Teresa falls in love with ______________ (codename) who is really an engineer

Palimino

Maria Teresa marries ____________ on Feb14th in the Era of Trujillo

Palimino

"In his own way, _________ was a trujillista," Minerva announced. "its men like him and Jaimito and other scared fulanitos who have kept the devil in power these years"

Papa

______'s ford was parked in front of small, yellow house

Papa

"Papa's other family would be the agents of our salvation." Explain what this means?

Papas children with his mistress would be the ones who help them tremendously, Margarita delivers packages to the girls in prison and communication

_______________'s house become the "motherhouse" of the movement

Patria and Pedrito

The SIM set fire to _____________

Patria and Pedritos house

Everyday _______ says a prayer and sets flowers under the picture of ________

Patria, Trujillo

__________ wondered if the dead child were not punishment for her having turned back on _____________________

Patria, becoming a nun

Captain Pena was listed in the real estate transactions as having bought ________________

Pedritos land/farm from the state

_______-'s car was parked in front of El Jefes house

Pena

Cite evidence of how the island is prospering

President is making good changes, happy now that Trujillo is gone, death of the sisters made it possible to prosper

When Patria finds out that she is pregnant, she says that she is going to name her son ________ ________ after ________ brothers

Raul Ernesto, Castro

Who said it? "...the biggest part of why I live the way I do is that out here I can do just about anything I damn well please."

Raylene

Who said it? "Anney, you can't hide away like you some criminal...You aint the one done nothing wrong."

Raylene

Who said it? "Girl, you are seriously confused about love. Seriously."

Raylene

Who said it? "God knows how many babies he's planted"

Raylene

Who said it? "Ruth wanted all her children to come home. And travis has been trying to do everything the way she wanted."

Raylene

Who said it? "Sweet suffering Jesus...Earle, come here. You and Beau come here."

Raylene

_____________ spends the night at the hospital with Bone

Raylene

_____________ wrestled with the nurse to enter the room. "You tell me what you got to be in here with her alone and keeping me outside?"

Raylene

"Before he went to Oklahoma, Butch told me that _______ had worked for the carnival like a man, cutting off her hair and dressing in overalls. Shed called herself _____, and with her short, stocky build, big shoulders and small breasts, I could easily see how no one would had questioned her...Ray quit working at the mill but earned money by selling _____________. She was probably the only person any of us would ever meet who was completely satisfied with her own company."

Raylene, Ray, canned vegetables and fruit

Bone ran away and walkedd to Aunt ___________ place

Raylenes

Mama go angry at Glen for spending the afternoon fishing and smoking and telling lies while her girls were starving. She yelled "I was never gonna have my kids know what it was like," Then she changes her clothes. Describe an item of clothing she puts on

Red sweater that showed off her boobs, patted-leather heels, red lipstick

Who said it? "I didn't think you'd come back at all. I was all ready to take over your side of the bed"

Reese

________ and I had turned from absolute allies into competitors overnight

Reese

The driver that the sisters trust is called _______

Rufino

"Truth is, she __________ just about raised me _______. Daddy was gone by then, and Granny was always running after the boys or your aunt alma."

Ruth, Mama

I follow the downstairs corridor back, past the door that leads into the kitchen...and knock. The commander says hello. He asks her to play a game of _______. I win the first game, I let him win the second.

Scrabble

"Sometimes after a few drinks he becomes silly, and cheats at S_____...Sometimes he turns on his short-wave ______

Scrabble, radio

Patria enrolls Nelson in a __________________ in order to protect him.

Seminary boarding school

""The regime responded with a full-force war against the church." Cite one example of what they did

Sent prostitutes, dumped crap In confession booths

May arms are raised; ___________ holds my hands, each of mine in each of hers

Serena Joy

Sometimes I think __________ knows. Sometimes I think they're in collusion

Serena Joy

"Everybody knows you're all a bunch of drunks and thieves and bastards. Everybody knows you just come around so you can eat off my mamas table and beg scraps we don't want no more." ________ says this about ________

Shannon about Bone

What happens to Patria to persuade her to become a revolutionary?

She goes on a retreat, while there, the revolution begins with a bombing where she witnesses a boy get killed

What does Ofglen do to the man?What reason does she give to Offred? Janine is holding a clump of ____________ in her hand

She kicks him in the head and knocked him out. She said that he was one of them and needed to put him out of his misery, blonde hair

Why does mama go on the pilgrimage?

She needs to escape/time because her husband is cheating on her

What happened to Lina Lovaton after she left school?

She was Trujillos girlfriend and she got pregnant, his wife wanted to kill her so he moved her into a secluded mansion

What did Bone yell at the group of men just down from Texaco station? and why?

She yelled that Woolworths was open so that they would go in and steal everything else and cover her back

"He yanks me by the wrist, thrusting his pelvis at me in a vulgar way, and I can see my hand in an endless slow motion..." What does Minerva do?

Slaps him

Daddy Glen felt that Reese was entitled to ______________

Some of the Parsons land

'I became reckless, I took stupid chances' Explain

Starts seeing Nick regularly, talking more openly when she shouldn't

Describe Shannon Pearl

Super pale with pinkish eyes, albino, ignorant

Who said it? "I promised Mama id make sure you got off to school, so move it along"

Temple

Mama has a new house on the main road. Name one thing different from her old house

The bathroom and the phone

How has the Catholic Church changed its position on the revolution? Cite specific examples

The church is now also fighting against Trujillo. One example is when the paster says no one can take away our God given rights, its wrong.

"Her house was scrubbed clean, but her walls were lined with shelves full of oddities" Where sis she get these oddities?

The river, its trash that came up and stopped at the tree roots

"Last week, Tono had found a little rod behind Mamas wedding picture..." What does this mean?

Their house was bugged (spies were listening to them)

""They had seen a black towel hanging out of a window of La Victoria." What does this mean? Explain

Their package made it into the prison, Mate got her towel. Plan worked

In chapter 10 Captain Pena tells Patria "The SIM made your husband an offer, but he wouldn't take it." What was the offer?

To leave her and the family for the farm and freedom

Every afternoon after school I was supposed to go stay with Reese at Aunt Almas, but instead I started going over to the west Greenville Cafe on the Eustis Highway. Why did she go there?

To listen to songs on the jukebox with truck drivers, her favorite songs plus the smell of fried food

True or False: Anney was sometimes outside the bathroom door while he beat Bone

True

True or False: Anney, Bone, and Reese went to Almas for two weeks

True

True or False: Bone stole Tootsie roles from Woolworths

True

True or False: Cousin Tommy Lee, Ruths oldest, served stints in the county jail

True

True or False: Daddy Glen told Anney that Bone had called him a bastard and was running through the house knocking things down

True

True or False: Glen argued with Earle about some tools that Earl had not returned

True

True or False: Glen got down on his knees in front of Alma, Wade, their kids, and Mama and vowed he couldn't live without his family love and wanted them home

True

True or False: The doctor said her coccyx was broken and he ordered lots of X-rays

True

True or False: The manager at Woolworths told Bone that she couldn't return to the store until her mama talked to him and told him that Bone learned her lesson

True

True or False: Tommy Lee stole from his mama and from Anney and from Deedee

True

True or False: When young, Anney and Raylene picked green strawberries and put them in the bottom underneath the red ones

True

True or false: Now Janine will never be scent to the colonies; shell never be declared Unwoman

True

Chapita is another name for

Trujillo

The "old goat" is another name for _____________

Trujillo

Who is responsible for "their bodies...found dumped in a ditch, their tongues cut off for speaking too much"?

Trujillo

_________ says, "My only two problems are __________ and the ____________

Trujillo, church, mirabal sisters

Their new history textbook had a photo of ______ on the cover

Trujillo/Jefe

"A man has needs" said ______

Wade

"Three days after the funeral __________ had shot himself in his right foot, and was stuck home limping around with his leg in a cast.

Wade

Aunt Carr had wanted to marry _______-, but ended up with Benny from _________

Wade, Baltimore

The commander knocks at the door of the sitting room because this room is supposed to belong to his ________-. He doesn't wait for her to say enter.

Wife

The _______ ride in the blue birth mobile

Wives

This regime is seductive. Explain how this is so.

You get sucked in, first you do what you need to so you don't get caught and then you lie to fall deeper in.

Bones new friend was Shannon Pearl. Her mama managed _____________ and also _______________; her daddy ___________________-

a book store and sees costumes, booked and lined up singers

When Offred eats, she uses what utensils?

a fork and spoon, no knife

Moira had made a weapon from ______________

a part of the toilet, a lever

On the second night the commander had a gift for her. What was it?

a vogue magazine

Show two ways that Mrs. Parsons is different from Granny

a. Hair up in a neat bun, granny with waves tied with string b. nice dress while granny has saggy dress

List 2 reasons why Mamas sisters didn't like Glen Waddell

a. His temper b. doesn't support Anney or the family

cite 2 ways Mate structures her day in prison.

a. little school with the girls b. writing in her journal on guard change

Name two things Minerva found inside the pocket of Papas clothes. a.______________ b._______________

a. receipts for food b. letters from Lio

The author would like to go back to school. What does she want her wife to do, so she can go back to college. Name three things she wants her wife to do.

a. take care of her children and everything with them b. passionate and satisfying sex life when she wants c. work to put her through school

"Two thirty during testifying...Aunt Helena who headed a Weight Watchers franchise in Iowa is good at testifying...Janine tells about being gang raped at 14 and had an ______________

abortion

Manolito is busy with his __________ projects

agricultural

Where did mama move to with bone and Reese a day after Daddy Glens beating

an apartment over the fish market

Offred realizes something has changed that night. I can ____ for something

ask

Trujillo was __________________ by a group of ___________ men

assassinated, 7

Mates _________ always acted up when she was upset

asthma

Maria Teresa suffers from an _____________ __________

asthma attack