Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
United States

England

Canada

France
2 In what collection was "Happy Endings" originally published?
Hag-Seed

The Blind Assassin

Murder in the Dark

The Handmaid's Tale
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?
Writing

Gender roles

Religion

Mortality
4 How many different parts compose the short story?
Four

Three

Five

Six
5 What is Margaret Atwood's most famous work?
The Handmaid's Tale

To the Lighthouse

Hag-Seed

The Blind Assassin
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?
Feminist

Unskilled

Socialist

Surrealist
7 From which perspective is "Happy Endings" narrated?
Omniscient

Third person

First person

Second person
8 Who are the two initial characters introduced in the story?
Madge and John

Mary and Madge

John and Mary

Mary and Fred
9 In version A, what happens?
Mary and John fall in love.

Mary and John never meet.

Mary divorces John.

John loses his job.
10 In version B, what is the central conflict between John and Mary?
John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

Mary forgets who John is.

Mary is an alcoholic.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?
Madge

Mary

Nobody

James
12 In version B, where does John never take Mary?
The ocean

A restaurant

His house

The theater
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She confronts Madge.

She dies by suicide.

She has a baby with James.

She marries Fred.
14 In version C, who does Mary love?
Madge

Fred

John

James
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Sell drugs

Ride his motorcycle

Volunteer at the library

Cheat on Mary
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
John shoots them, and himself.

They die in a car accident.

They do not die.

They die of a terminal disease.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She marries Fred.

She catches John with Mary.

She is killed by James.

She dies by suicide.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
In the mountains

In the desert

By the sea

Near a lake
19 How does Fred die in version E?
Heart attack

Cancer

Car accident

Murder
20 What does the narrator offer as an alternative to Mary dedicating her life to charity?
Mary's knitting

Mary's cooking

Fred's birdwatching

Fred's gardening
21 In version F, what could John be?
A doctor

A revolutionary

A lawyer

A father
22 In version F, what could Mary be?
A counterespionage agent

A scientist

A doctor

A priest
23 What, according to the narrator, is the authentic ending to the story?
John and Mary die.

Nobody gets out alive.

Madge is better than Mary.

Writing is difficult.
24 What, according to the narrator, is "just one thing after another" (F)?
Life

Plot

Death

History
25 What does the narrator say the reader should try at the end of the story?
Literary devices

Reading another story

Better plots

The How and Why

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