Handmaid’s Tale A-Level

Question 1

10 - the connection between Handmaids

Answer 1

We learned to whisper without sound

Question 2

19 - the divide Gilead has caused in women

Answer 2

I am a reproach to her; and a necessity.

Question 3

19 - the value of power

Answer 3

There is push and shove, these days, over such toe holds.

Question 4

23- Offred mocks the consistency in male behaviour.

Answer 4

This at least hasn’t changed, the way men caress good cars.

Question 5

26 - Offred describes the guardians

Answer 5

They’re either stupid or older or disabled or very young,

Question 6

39- Aunt Lydia describes how people will submit over time

Answer 6

This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will.

Question 7

43 - Offred’s an intelligent queen

Answer 7

The difference between lie and lay.

Question 8

44- Women aren’t treated well in the 80s either

Answer 8

Parts of women’s bodies, turning to black ash in the air, before my eyes.

Question 9

45- Offred pretends it is fake to cope

Answer 9

Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance.

Question 10

51 - Aunt Lydia misquotes the bible

Answer 10

All flesh is weak

Question 11

52 - Luke and Offred are unequal

Answer 11

Luke thought she was funny. I only pretended to think so.

Question 12

55 - Offred Kwan’s her own space

Answer 12

I called it mine.

Question 13

61 - Aunt Lydia slut shames and. Then gets a bit too real…

Answer 13

Such things do not happen to nice women.

Don’t think it’s easy for me either,

Question 14

62 - Offred ignores

Answer 14

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Question 15

67- men are saints, no defects whatsoever.

Answer 15

There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore.

Question 16

75 - Offred gets bored

Answer 16

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it for men.

Question 17

94 - bye bye bible

Answer 17

Who knows what we’d make of it, if we ever got our hands on it?

Question 18

101-Offred sympathises for SJ

Answer 18

Which of us is it worse for, her or me?

Question 19

109-sex and love

Answer 19

Nobody dies from lack of sex. Its lack of love we die from.

Question 20

123-Aunt Lydia has hope for the future

Answer 20

Because they won’t want things they can’t have.

Question 21

125- Aunt Lydia wants you to agree

Answer 21

But they were Godless, and that can make all the difference, don’t you agree?

Question 22

131-the eye is blind

Answer 22

But they’ll turn a blind eye. We too need our orgies.

Question 23

133- Women’s rights gone wrong

Answer 23

You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one.

Question 24

140-very Truman show vibes

Answer 24

This is a reconstruction. All of it is a reconstruction.

Question 25

141- forgiveness?

Answer 25

Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.

Question 26

151-Nazis

Answer 26

She did not believe he was a monster. He was not a monster, to her.

Question 27

170- A science experiment

Answer 27

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Question 28

191 - women can’t add

Answer 28

Just one and one and one and one

Question 29

201-oops, i fell

Answer 29

The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Question 30

221-God in khaki?

Answer 30

GOD IS A NATIONAL RESOURCE.

Question 31

243 - Linking to modern day countries and then having us doubt

Answer 31

You can’t tell by looking. A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

Question 32

249 - jezebels mirror

Answer 32

You need to know, here, what you look like.

Question 33

271- Offred is ashamed so she lies to us.

Answer 33

There wasn’t any thunder though, I added that in. To cover up the sounds, which i am ashamed of making.

Question 34

284 - find a rope

Answer 34

To show my unity with the Salvagers and my consent, and my complicity in the death of this woman.

Question 35

295 - SJ has feelings??????

Answer 35

You could have left me something.

Question 36

320 - HadesTown

Answer 36

We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer.

Question 37

320 - last line:)

Answer 37

Are there any questions?