Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Dystopian State and setting of the novel | The Republic of Gilead | 92%
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State secret service who drive in black vans | The Eyes | 80%
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Training centre for Handmaids-to-be | The Rachel and Leah Centre | 70%
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Enforced sex ritual | The Ceremony | 68%
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Areas which polluted and radioactive, where labourers and dissenters are sent to clean up the mess | The Colonies | 68%
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State-run whore-house for rebellious Handmaids | Jezebel's | 62%
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Where dissenters' corpses are hung | The Wall | 49%
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Soldiers | The Angels | 48%
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Name for an infertile Handmaid, or a Handmaid who gives birth to a child with deficiencies or disabilities | Unwoman | 48%
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Ambulance for driving pregnant Handmaids to hospital | Birthmobile | 43%
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Baby with birth defects | Unbaby | 43%
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Secret underground resistance to the regime | The Mayday Underground | 40%
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State-sanctioned greeting between Handmaids, first used by Ofglen in Chapter 3 | Blessed be the fruit | 36%
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Execution ceremonies where rebels are killed | Salvagings | 33%
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Accepted response to the above | May the Lord open | 30%
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Convoluted way of describing homosexuals | Gender Traitors | 27%
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Public ceremonies, segregated by gender. Women's ceremonies involved marriages of Daughters, men's celebrate military victories | Prayvaganzas | 23%
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Group execution of a criminal by a group of Handmaids who beat up the accused to death | Particicution | 20%
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Shop which sells meat | All Flesh | 19%
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Shop which sells groceries | Milk and Honey | 19%
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Shop which prints out prayers for Commanders and Wives, used as a way of showing loyalty to the regime | Soul Scrolls | 16%
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Serena Joy's perfume | Lily of the Valley | 15%
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Underground Railroad for smuggling Handmaids out of the country | The Underground Femaleroad | 15%
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Shops which selled pornography in the pre-Gilead era | Pornomarts | 12%
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State-sanctioned way of describing black people | Children of Ham | 9%
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Event in the Middle Gilead period, wiping out records pertaining to think tanks involving the Commander | The Great Purge | 9%
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The most expensive brand of car in the novel, which is owned by Offred's commander | Whirlwind | 9%
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Computerized scanning devices that read credit cards and bar-coded pricing and inventory symbols | Compuchek | 8%
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Electronic medical record | Compudoc | 8%
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The cheapest and 'chunky, practical' brand of car in the novel | Behemoth | 7%
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The central bank from which money is controlled by the State | Compubank | 7%
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Pre-Gilead prostitution service, pun on programme that delivered food to the elderly and vulnerable | Feels on Wheels | 7%
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Name of the 'subject' taken by Handmaids during their 'training' | Gyn Ed | 7%
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Meetings between powerful Commanders where the social structure of the State is hammered out | Sons of Jacob Think-Tank | 7%
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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 group | Testifying | 7%
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Mid-range brand of car | Chariot | 6%
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Neologism for credit cards | Compucount | 5%
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Number on the above, neologism for credit card number | Compunumber | 5%
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The regime's multiple internal forms of electronic communications | Computalk | 5%
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Event which started the Christian fundamentalist takeover, which was blamed on Islamic extremists and used as a scapegoat to justify the takeover | President's Day Massacre | 4%
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Some sort of pornography-distributing vans, almost synonymous with the above | Bun-Dle Buggies | 3%
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ID-card for citizens in the dystopian State | Identipass | 3%
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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 wars | The Spheres of Influence Accord | 2%
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