1. In what year was Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, published?

   1. 1967

   2. 1963

   3. 1969

   4. 1970

2. Atwood will be the first contributor to the Future Library project. What is it?

   1. A digital project to turn Atwood’s works into web-based "immersion experiences"

   2. A global project to connect libraries through video conferences hosted by authors

   3. An education project, appealing to authors to donate books to a touring library visiting areas hit by climate change

   4. A writing project that aims to collect one original story each year which will remain unseen until 2114

3. Which piece of technology did Atwood invent?

   1. The LongPen - robotic writing technology that allows authors, and others, to sign paper remotely

   2. Writing World - an app that enables amateur writers to collaboratively create and self-publish stories online

   3. Earthface - a web-based rogues gallery, where users can add their own defaced images of environmental villains

   4. The She-reader, an app that switches masculine and feminine pronouns in ebooks

4. What happens to female Crakers when they are on heat?

   1. They take to the hills

   2. Their abdomens and buttocks turn blue

   3. They sing loudly with their eyes shut

   4. Their hair turns pink

5. How many of Atwood’s novels have been shortlisted for the Booker prize?

   1. 0

   2. 3

   3. 5

   4. 6

6. From which novel does this quote come? "Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.”

   1. Oryx and Crake

   2. MaddAddam

   3. The Year of the Flood

   4. The Blind Assassin

7. Which science fiction prize did The Handmaid’s Tale win?

   1. Nebula award

   2. Hugo award

   3. Arthur C Clarke award

   4. Prometheus award

8. What is the name of the fictional Ontario town in which The Blind Assassin is set?

   1. Saugeen Shores

   2. Deep River

   3. South Bruce Peninsula

   4. Port Ticonderoga

9. In The Handmaid’s Tale, handmaids are renamed after their male owners. What is the name of the novel’s narrator?

   1. Ofglen

   2. Offred

   3. Ofwarren

   4. Ofsted

10. What was the title of the online novella on which Atwood collaborated with Naomi Alderman in 2012?

    1. Happy Zombie Sunrise

    2. Love Songs of a Terminator

    3. Frankenstein's Monster Song

    4. Bluebeard’s Egg

Solutions

1:C, 2:D, 3:A, 4:B, 5:C, 6:C, 7:C, 8:D, 9:B, 10:A

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   Awful. A positively dystopian performance. Start catching up now or face cultural doom

2. 7 and above.

   Not bad, but you need to read a few more books so you can be fully informed when she gets her Nobel

3. 10 and above.

   Award-winning! Atwood herself could not have answered better