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Decks in this class (37)

Context
When was the handmaids tale written,
When is the novel set,
What were the christian right fun...
5  cards
Chapter 1
We slept in what,
Garlands made of,
There was old
4  cards
Chapter 2
Theyve removed anything,
Like other things now thought,
Red the colour of blood
4  cards
Chapter 3
Pieces of string for,
Many of the wives have such gardens,
I looked at the cigarette
3  cards
Chapter 4
This at least hasnt changed the w...,
I stand on the corner,
They have no outlets now except t...
3  cards
Chapter 5
The republic of gilead said aunt ...,
Women were not,
There is more than one kind of fr...
8  cards
Chapter 6
When we think of the past its the...,
The heads are the heads of snowmen,
These bodies hanging on the wall ...
3  cards
Chapter 7
But the night is my time out,
Psychology english economics,
Parts of womens bodies
5  cards
Chapter 8
God made them that way but he,
She doesnt make speeches anymore,
The chicken lies there headless and
4  cards
Chapter 9
How i wasted them those rooms,
Nolite te,
What you dont know
3  cards
Chapter 10
Remembering her own former and now,
Oiling themselves like,
Ignoring isnt the same as ignorance
5  cards
Chapter 11
The snakes and the sword are bits,
He deals with,
There are only women who are frui...
3  cards
Chapter 12
My nakedness is,
I dont want to look at something,
She was crying and saying it was ...
5  cards
Chapter 13
I wait washed brushed fed,
Caged rats whod give themselves,
Their legs fluttering like
7  cards
Chapter 14
Serena joys perfume,
They only show us victories never...,
That is how i feel white flat
3  cards
Chapter 15
It must be just fine it must be hell,
Blessed are the meek,
Left by an unknown woman
4  cards
Identity
Your own skin like a map a diagra...,
I have trouble remembering what i...,
I am the vehicle
7  cards
Loss of Liberation
A rat in a maze is free to go any...,
Four digits and an eye,
Whatever going on is as usual
6  cards
Male Oppression
I win the first game,
Men are
2  cards
Chapter 16
She holds my hands,
This is supposed to signify that,
Below it the commander is fucking...
5  cards
Chapter 17
We are containers its only the in...,
Buttered i lie on my single bed flat,
The daffodils will soon be
3  cards
Chapter 18
I feel like the word,
The pollen of weeds that grow,
No light without shadow
3  cards
Chapter 19
I am dreaming that,
Sanity is a valuable possession i...,
God must look like
6  cards
Chapter 20
Freedom to choose every baby a wa...,
A man is just a womans strategy for,
I didnt want to be the model offs...
3  cards
Chapter 21
The soft chanting envelopes us like,
Pain marks you but too deep to se...,
Its coming its coming like a bugl...
6  cards
Chapter 22
Janine was like a puppy thats,
Already we were losing the taste ...,
Moira was our
4  cards
Chapter 23
I am the vehicle,
We are two legged wombs thats all,
Books and books and books
5  cards
Chapter 24
Your own skin like a map a diagra...,
If its only a story
2  cards
Chapter 25
She was snipping off the seed pods,
It was a look youd give to an almost
2  cards
Chapter 26
I would pretend not to be present,
I should continue to act in publi...,
Women united
4  cards
Chapter 27
A rat in a maze is free to go any...,
Death is
2  cards
Chapter 28
Im not,
As if we were wild animals
2  cards
Chapter 29
All he needed was a toothpick in ...,
For them one and one and one and one,
If your dog dies
3  cards
Chapter 30
The eyes of god,
What we prayed for was emptiness ...,
The fall was a fall from
3  cards
Chapter 31
Whatever it meant,
Throwbacks to,
Shes made of wood or iron
3  cards
Chapter 32
Better never means better for eve...,
I lie flat the damp air above me
2  cards
Chapter 33
Not a dandelion in sight here,
We line up to get processed throu...
2  cards

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