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The Handmaids' Tale Ch. 1-18

Name: _______________
Across
Deeply religious; devoted to a particular religion
Members of the military
The Republic of ___, previously known as the United States
The narrator’s current name; it will change when she moves to a new posting.
Nolite te ____ carborundorum.
Cora and ___, the Commander's servants.
Author of The Handmaid's Tale
A social system or system of government in which men hold a disproportionately large share of power and authority.
To go back and forth between choices or opinions; to move back and forth in an unsteady way
___ Joy, the Commander's wife.
Nickname for the "school" which housed and trained new Handmaids
The Handmaid’s Tale belongs to this literary genre.
The ___wives are married to lower-status men.
An implied or indirect reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or event
The __ is used to display executed criminals.
Having unusual habits or ways of behaving; happening by chance
An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
Down
In a small act of rebellion, the narrator steals this to soften her skin.
During “Testifying,” the Handmaid trainees are encouraged to blame her for being gang-raped and having an abortion.
This woman is the narrator’s shopping partner.
Their job is to have the children in this new regime.
The narrator steals a ___ from the sitting room after the Ceremony (p.98).
a large notice or sign put up in a public place or carried by people
He violates household rules when he takes a private look at the narrator’s room, prompting her to call it “hers” for the first time.
She sees him once a month; he offers to "help" her get pregnant.
The narrator hopes that her husband escaped and joined up with the ____.
Women belonging to this class perform household work and can be identified by their drab green robes.
A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme
Done in a quiet and secret way to avoid being noticed; underhanded
The Republic of Gilead’s secret police force
The narrator’s husband; father of her child
These women have some authority, but even they aren't allowed to read
A form of government organized around a state religion and run by religious leaders
Barren in the Old Testament, so she offered her husband her servant.
The narrator’s college friend
The Commander’s driver
Aunt Lydia begs the Handmaids to pity this class of women because they are barren.