Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
United States

France

England

Canada
2 In what collection was "Happy Endings" originally published?
Murder in the Dark

The Blind Assassin

Hag-Seed

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

Gender roles

Mortality

Religion
4 How many different parts compose the short story?
Six

Four

Five

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

To the Lighthouse

The Blind Assassin

Hag-Seed
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?
Unskilled

Surrealist

Socialist

Feminist
7 From which perspective is "Happy Endings" narrated?
First person

Third person

Second person

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

Mary and Madge

Mary and Fred

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

John loses his job.

Mary and John never meet.

Mary divorces John.
10 In version B, what is the central conflict between John and Mary?
Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary is an alcoholic.

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

Madge

Mary

Nobody
12 In version B, where does John never take Mary?
The ocean

His house

A restaurant

The theater
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She marries Fred.

She dies by suicide.

She confronts Madge.

She has a baby with James.
14 In version C, who does Mary love?
James

Fred

John

Madge
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Cheat on Mary

Sell drugs

Volunteer at the library

Ride his motorcycle
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They die in a car accident.

They die of a terminal disease.

John shoots them, and himself.

They do not die.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She marries Fred.

She is killed by James.

She dies by suicide.

She catches John with Mary.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
Near a lake

In the desert

By the sea

In the mountains
19 How does Fred die in version E?
Cancer

Heart attack

Car accident

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

Mary's cooking

Mary's knitting

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 priest

A scientist

A doctor
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)?
Plot

Death

Life

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

Better plots

The How and Why

Reading another story

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