Statistics for Neologisms and terminology in 'The Handmaid's Tale'

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HintAnswer% Correct
Dystopian State and setting of the novelThe Republic of Gilead
92%
State secret service who drive in black vansThe Eyes
80%
Training centre for Handmaids-to-beThe Rachel and Leah Centre
70%
Enforced sex ritualThe Ceremony
68%
Areas which polluted and radioactive, where labourers and dissenters are sent to clean up the messThe Colonies
68%
State-run whore-house for rebellious HandmaidsJezebel's
62%
Where dissenters' corpses are hungThe Wall
49%
SoldiersThe Angels
48%
Name for an infertile Handmaid, or a Handmaid who gives birth to a child with deficiencies or disabilitiesUnwoman
48%
Ambulance for driving pregnant Handmaids to hospitalBirthmobile
43%
Baby with birth defectsUnbaby
43%
Secret underground resistance to the regimeThe Mayday Underground
40%
State-sanctioned greeting between Handmaids, first used by Ofglen in Chapter 3Blessed be the fruit
36%
Execution ceremonies where rebels are killedSalvagings
33%
Accepted response to the aboveMay the Lord open
30%
Convoluted way of describing homosexualsGender Traitors
27%
Public ceremonies, segregated by gender. Women's ceremonies involved marriages of Daughters, men's celebrate military victoriesPrayvaganzas
23%
Group execution of a criminal by a group of Handmaids who beat up the accused to deathParticicution
20%
Shop which sells meatAll Flesh
19%
Shop which sells groceriesMilk and Honey
19%
Shop which prints out prayers for Commanders and Wives, used as a way of showing loyalty to the regimeSoul Scrolls
16%
Serena Joy's perfumeLily of the Valley
15%
Underground Railroad for smuggling Handmaids out of the countryThe Underground Femaleroad
15%
Shops which selled pornography in the pre-Gilead eraPornomarts
12%
State-sanctioned way of describing black peopleChildren of Ham
9%
Event in the Middle Gilead period, wiping out records pertaining to think tanks involving the CommanderThe Great Purge
9%
The most expensive brand of car in the novel, which is owned by Offred's commanderWhirlwind
9%
Computerized scanning devices that read credit cards and bar-coded pricing and inventory symbolsCompuchek
8%
Electronic medical recordCompudoc
8%
The cheapest and 'chunky, practical' brand of car in the novelBehemoth
7%
The central bank from which money is controlled by the StateCompubank
7%
Pre-Gilead prostitution service, pun on programme that delivered food to the elderly and vulnerableFeels on Wheels
7%
Name of the 'subject' taken by Handmaids during their 'training'Gyn Ed
7%
Meetings between powerful Commanders where the social structure of the State is hammered outSons of Jacob Think-Tank
7%
Ceremony as part of the Handmaid training programme, where Handmaids-to-be must own up to their 'sins' from the time before. In the novel Janine is the focus of this ceremony, which is hosted by Aunt Helena who used to run a Weight Watchers groupTestifying
7%
Mid-range brand of carChariot
6%
Neologism for credit cardsCompucount
5%
Number on the above, neologism for credit card numberCompunumber
5%
The regime's multiple internal forms of electronic communicationsComputalk
5%
Event which started the Christian fundamentalist takeover, which was blamed on Islamic extremists and used as a scapegoat to justify the takeoverPresident's Day Massacre
4%
Some sort of pornography-distributing vans, almost synonymous with the aboveBun-Dle Buggies
3%
ID-card for citizens in the dystopian StateIdentipass
3%
Signed between the State and other influential world powers in which they agreed not to fight each other in order to deal with internal rebellions and civil warsThe Spheres of Influence Accord
2%

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