The Handmaid's Tale Chapters 31-46 Quizzes, Worksheets, and Vocabulary Games

Evaluate reading comprehension, facilitate college readiness vocabulary development, and support analysis of plot and literary craft with this bundle of activities and assessments covering a portion of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (chapters 31 through 46). Plot-based quizzes, close reading inference worksheets, vocabulary application activities, crossword puzzles, word search games, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these activities, students will:

• Read for literal comprehension
• Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed
• Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
• Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques
• Describe tone in context
• Determine the function of a given detail or chapter
• Articulate how the government has failed in its mission to divide women in the context of chapter 31
• Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
• Compare and contrast characters
• Apply knowledge of literary devices including metaphor, idiom, paradox, portmanteau, situational irony, allusion, and euphemism
• Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision