* In what country does most of the story take place?
* What does the woman at the art exhibit throw on Elaine's painting 'White Gift'?
* Which girls were mean to Elaine as a child?
* What did Elaine do to herself when she was stressed?
* What was the name of the portrait Elaine painted of Cordelia?
* What did Cordelia's sisters call their cigarettes?
* Where was Cordelia living when Elaine met with her after they had grown up?
* What item of Elaine's does Cordelia throw into the ravine?
* What is Elaine's father's profession?
* Which war takes place during Elaine's childhood?
* Each of the different types of women in Gilead have to wear clothes of a particular colour. Handmaids have to wear red, and the Wives have to wear blue. What is the name of the women who wear green?
* 'The Handmaid's Tale' was written in which year?
* The book's title format makes an implicit reference to which famous English author?
* The book has several epigraphs, one of which establishes the biblical precedent for Handmaids. Which book of the Bible does it come from?
* And the name for those assigned to poorer men who wear striped clothes of many colours?
* 'Gender treachery', for which individuals can be put to death and hung on the Wall, is the Gilead name for which crime?
* Offred discovers a heroic message scratched into the wardrobe by her tragic predecessor at the Commander's house. It is written in Latin as 'nolite te bastardes carborundorum', but what is its translation?
* One of several twisted quotations found in the book is that illustrating the injunction for Handmaids not to read and write - 'Pen Is Envy'. Of course, this has been adapted from the phrase 'penis envy' popularised by which philosopher?
* "There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it." Which character tells the Handmaids this?
* What is Snowman's given name?