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Neologisms and terminology in 'The Handmaid's Tale' - Statistics
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Dystopian State and setting of the novel | The Republic of Gilead | 93%
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| State secret service who drive in black vans | The Eyes | 81%
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| Areas which polluted and radioactive, where labourers and dissenters are sent to clean up the mess | The Colonies | 70%
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| Enforced sex ritual | The Ceremony | 69%
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| Training centre for Handmaids-to-be | The Rachel and Leah Centre | 68%
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| State-run whore-house for rebellious Handmaids | Jezebel's | 63%
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| Where dissenters' corpses are hung | The Wall | 49%
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| Soldiers | The Angels | 46%
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| Name for an infertile Handmaid, or a Handmaid who gives birth to a child with deficiencies or disabilities | Unwoman | 46%
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| Ambulance for driving pregnant Handmaids to hospital | Birthmobile | 40%
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| Secret underground resistance to the regime | The Mayday Underground | 40%
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| Baby with birth defects | Unbaby | 40%
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| State-sanctioned greeting between Handmaids, first used by Ofglen in Chapter 3 | Blessed be the fruit | 35%
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| Execution ceremonies where rebels are killed | Salvagings | 32%
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| Accepted response to the above | May the Lord open | 30%
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| Convoluted way of describing homosexuals | Gender Traitors | 28%
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| Public ceremonies, segregated by gender. Women's ceremonies involved marriages of Daughters, men's celebrate military victories | Prayvaganzas | 22%
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| Group execution of a criminal by a group of Handmaids who beat up the accused to death | Particicution | 19%
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| Shop which sells meat | All Flesh | 18%
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| Shop which sells groceries | Milk and Honey | 18%
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| Shop which prints out prayers for Commanders and Wives, used as a way of showing loyalty to the regime | Soul Scrolls | 16%
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| Underground Railroad for smuggling Handmaids out of the country | The Underground Femaleroad | 15%
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| Serena Joy's perfume | Lily of the Valley | 14%
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| Shops which selled pornography in the pre-Gilead era | Pornomarts | 12%
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| State-sanctioned way of describing black people | Children of Ham | 9%
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| Event in the Middle Gilead period, wiping out records pertaining to think tanks involving the Commander | The Great Purge | 8%
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| The most expensive brand of car in the novel, which is owned by Offred's commander | Whirlwind | 8%
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| Computerized scanning devices that read credit cards and bar-coded pricing and inventory symbols | Compuchek | 7%
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| Electronic medical record | Compudoc | 7%
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| Pre-Gilead prostitution service, pun on programme that delivered food to the elderly and vulnerable | Feels on Wheels | 7%
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| The cheapest and 'chunky, practical' brand of car in the novel | Behemoth | 6%
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| The central bank from which money is controlled by the State | Compubank | 6%
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| Name of the 'subject' taken by Handmaids during their 'training' | Gyn Ed | 6%
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| Meetings between powerful Commanders where the social structure of the State is hammered out | Sons of Jacob Think-Tank | 6%
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| Ceremony as part of the Handmaid training programme, where Handmaids-to-be must own up to their 'sins' from the time before. In the novel Janine is the focus of this ceremony, which is hosted by Aunt Helena who used to run a Weight Watchers group | Testifying | 6%
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| Mid-range brand of car | Chariot | 5%
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| Neologism for credit cards | Compucount | 4%
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| Number on the above, neologism for credit card number | Compunumber | 4%
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| The regime's multiple internal forms of electronic communications | Computalk | 4%
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| Event which started the Christian fundamentalist takeover, which was blamed on Islamic extremists and used as a scapegoat to justify the takeover | President's Day Massacre | 4%
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| Some sort of pornography-distributing vans, almost synonymous with the above | Bun-Dle Buggies | 3%
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| ID-card for citizens in the dystopian State | Identipass | 3%
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| Signed between the State and other influential world powers in which they agreed not to fight each other in order to deal with internal rebellions and civil wars | The Spheres of Influence Accord | 2%
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