The Handmaids Tale Revision Workbook

This workbook starts by chunking chapters and looking at comprehension style questions - for example chapters 1-4 include 10 questions such as:

1. How does Atwood use setting and contrast in the novels opening to show the shifts in society?
2. List three details from these chapters that suggest Gilead is a dangerous place.
3. How does Atwood use silence, rules, and restrictions to create an atmosphere of fear?

For each group of chapters there is a longer ‘Agree or disagree’ statement

The workbook has spaces for students to fill this in as homework or revision.

There are then sections looking at key themes and genre and form.

FInally there are some common themes linking Handmaids Tale and Frankenstein - including guiding questions. Such as:
Resistance and control:
How do Offred and the Creature attempt to reclaim identity or agency, and how successful are they?
What barriers prevent rebellion in each text, and how do characters navigate or succumb to these obstacles?
How do small acts of resistance comment on the possibility (or impossibility) of systemic change?

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