Question

In a novel, a woman decides to go to this country following her parents’ death in a car bombing, which leads Ada to reveal that she was the infamous “Baby Nicole.” (0[1])An epilogue set at a “Thirteenth Symposium” dedicated to this country (20[2]0[1])includes a discussion of the (20[2])Ardua Hall Holograph. (0[1])After (20[1])meeting Moira, (0[1])a novel’s (20[1])protagonist (20[1]0[1])discovers (0[1])that lawbreakers (20[1]0[1])in this country (20[1])are either sent (20[1])to clean (*) radioactive (10[1])waste (10[2])in the Colonies (10[2])or to work in (10[1])brothels (0[1])called “Jezebel’s.” (10[4])A woman (10[1]0[1])who works at a Red (10[1])Center (10[1])in this country, Aunt Lydia, appears in both The Testaments and a novel in which the Commander plays (0[1])Scrabble with Offred. (10[2]0[1])For 10 points, (10[2])name this Christian republic depicted in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale. (10[1]0[2])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Republic of Gilead (“GILL-ee-ad”) [prompt on U.S.A. or United States of America]
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