Authors and terms
This is the author of Small Things Like These.
Who is Claire Keegan?
Bill Furlong runs this kind of business in New Ross.
What is a coal business?
Heidi began competing in speeches about the U.S. Constitution to win money to fund this.
What is her college education?
By the end of the novel, we learn that Offred's real name in the before times was this.
What is June?
Small Things Like These is considered this, a short form of a novel.
What is a novella?
This Canadian author has written over 50 books of poetry, fiction, short stories, and nonfiction, many of which focus on feminist themes.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
This woman, who employs Bill's mother as a domestic servant, allows her to stay there and raise Bill when she becomes pregnant as an unwed teenager.
Who is Mrs. Wilson?
What is he ordered her from a catalogue?
In Gilead, these women are responsible for training, caring for, and punishing the handmaids outside of their assigned homes.
Who are the Aunts?
Near the end of the story "Cat Person," Robert sends Margot a series of increasingly angry texts after seeing her here.
What is the college bar where they had drinks on their date?
At 24, Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet to read at a Presidential Inauguration for this U.S. President.
Who is Joe Biden?
After Bill first sees Sarah Redmond in the coal house at the convent, Mother Superior implies that his own daughters could be retaliated against in this way should he tell anyone about what he saw.
What is that they won't be able to attend the convent school?
The actor playing the generic Legionnaire also plays this specific Legionnaire character, who represents "positive male energy."
Who is Mike?
In Gilead, this word functions as both a codeword and the name of a resistance movement.
What is mayday?
Small Things Like These's plot largely revolves around the exposure of one of these, convents that treated unwed mothers and"wayward" women cruelly as well as participated in questionable practices with babies.
What are Magedelan Laundries.
This is the author of "Cat Person."
Who is Kristen Roupenian?
This character is important in the text because she is seen treating Bill respectfully as a businessman and offering him a warning to stay quiet about the convent.
Who is Mrs. Kehoe?
Heidi points out that the U.S. Constitution is largely made up of these kinds of rights, which offer citizens protection against the government taking rights rather than the government granting rights outright.
What are negative rights?
Serena Joy proposes this plan to increase Offred's chances of getting pregnant.
What is that she secretly sleep with Nick?
Amanda Gorman revised her poem "The Hill We Climb" just days before she was set to recite it to reflect the events that occurred on this date.
What is January 6th?
What the Constitution Means to Me is almost, but not quite, an example of one of these, a dramatic work that features only one actor.
What is a monologue play?
Bill witnesses Mick Sinnot's child doing this early in the book, prompting him to pull over and give him a ride and some money.
What is foraging for sticks on the side of the road?
Heidi describes the Supreme Court ruling in the Castle Rock vs. Gonzales case to show that this clause of the 14th Amendment does not always apply to women who have experienced domestic violence.
What is due process?
What is market research?
The Handmaid's Tale is an example of this kind of novel, which describes an imagined future marked by authoritarian oppression and a bleak reality for most citizens.
What is a dystopian novel?