Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?

Canada

France

England

United States
2 In what collection was "Happy Endings" originally published?

Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale

Murder in the Dark

The Blind Assassin
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?

Writing

Mortality

Gender roles

Religion
4 How many different parts compose the short story?

Six

Three

Five

Four
5 What is Margaret Atwood's most famous work?

To the Lighthouse

The Blind Assassin

Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?

Feminist

Surrealist

Socialist

Unskilled
7 From which perspective is "Happy Endings" narrated?

Omniscient

Third person

Second person

First person
8 Who are the two initial characters introduced in the story?

Mary and Madge

John and Mary

Mary and Fred

Madge and John
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.

Mary forgets who John is.

Mary is an alcoholic.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?

Mary

Nobody

Madge

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

His house

A restaurant

The theater

The ocean
13 What happens to Mary in version B?

She dies by suicide.

She has a baby with James.

She confronts Madge.

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

James

Madge

John

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

Ride his motorcycle

Volunteer at the library

Cheat on Mary

Sell drugs
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?

They die of a terminal disease.

They do not die.

They die in a car accident.

John shoots them, and himself.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?

She catches John with Mary.

She is killed by James.

She marries Fred.

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?

Car accident

Murder

Heart attack

Cancer
20 What does the narrator offer as an alternative to Mary dedicating her life to charity?

Mary's cooking

Mary's knitting

Fred's gardening

Fred's birdwatching
21 In version F, what could John be?

A father

A doctor

A lawyer

A revolutionary
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?

Madge is better than Mary.

Writing is difficult.

Nobody gets out alive.

John and Mary die.
24 What, according to the narrator, is "just one thing after another" (F)?

Life

Death

History

Plot
25 What does the narrator say the reader should try at the end of the story?

Better plots

Reading another story

The How and Why

Literary devices

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