PLOT
What is Moira's excuse to get Aunt Elizabeth to come in the bathroom?
Toilet Overflowing
What do the recurring symbols of fruit and flowers represent in the society of Gilead?
Fertility.
What group of people has a secondary role in Birth ceremonies?
The Wives
What text is manipulated in Gilead to justify their belief system and legal code?
The Bible
Who does Offred refer to: "Even this meeting of eyes holds danger."
Where are Offred and Ofglen when they first break Handmaid protocol and speak more freely to each other?
Window of Soul Scrolls
What activity do the Commander and Offred participate in that represents rebellion and equality.
Scrabble.
What does Aunt Lydia ask Janine to do after Moira's dissapearance?
To listen for information about who was involved and report it.
What is used to visually signify class differences between the women in Gilead?
The colors of their clothes
Who said: "Some of us... retain an appreciation for the old things."
The Commander
Why does the Commander laugh at the Latin phrase that Offred tells him?
It is a "schoolboy" joke.
What fruit is indicative of status and wealth in Gilead?
Oranges.
Where is Offred's mother when she appears on the film?
A feminist protest (pro-choice)
What is used to publicly intimidate anyone who wishes to resist the regime?
The Wall (hangings)
Where was this said: "The soft chanting envelops us like a membrane."
At Janine's birth
What is the signal for Offred to visit the Commander?
Nick (and his hat).
What object, symbolizing purity, does Aunt Lydia compare the Handmaids to in chapter 19?
Pearls.
What was Offred's job before Gilead?
A library "discer"
What happens to the Handmaids if they fail to complete their job the first time?
They are sent to two more households before being brought to the Colonies.
Who said, "A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women."
Offred's mother
What did Moira think of Luke?
She disapproved of Offred being with a married man.
What does the Commander give to Offred that could serve to represent their somewhat cheap and routine affair?
Lotion (cheap)
Who was interviewed in the old TV program about a war?
The mistress of a concentration camp supervisor.
What system took over the payment industry during the early formation of Gilead?
Compubank/Compucard
Who said: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children."
Aunt Elizabeth