Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
Canada

United States

France

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

Murder in the Dark

The Blind Assassin

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

Mortality

Religion

Gender roles
4 How many different parts compose the short story?
Six

Three

Five

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

Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale

To the Lighthouse
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?
Surrealist

Socialist

Feminist

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

Second person

First person

Omniscient
8 Who are the two initial characters introduced in the story?
Mary and Fred

John and Mary

Mary and Madge

Madge and John
9 In version A, what happens?
John loses his job.

Mary divorces John.

Mary and John never meet.

Mary and John fall in love.
10 In version B, what is the central conflict between John and Mary?
Mary forgets who John is.

Mary is an alcoholic.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

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

Madge

Nobody

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

The ocean

His house

A restaurant
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She confronts Madge.

She has a baby with James.

She marries Fred.

She dies by suicide.
14 In version C, who does Mary love?
Madge

Fred

John

James
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Ride his motorcycle

Sell drugs

Cheat on Mary

Volunteer at the library
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They die of a terminal disease.

John shoots them, and himself.

They die in a car accident.

They do not die.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She is killed by James.

She catches John with Mary.

She dies by suicide.

She marries Fred.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
In the desert

Near a lake

In the mountains

By the sea
19 How does Fred die in version E?
Cancer

Heart attack

Murder

Car accident
20 What does the narrator offer as an alternative to Mary dedicating her life to charity?
Mary's cooking

Fred's birdwatching

Fred's gardening

Mary's knitting
21 In version F, what could John be?
A lawyer

A father

A doctor

A revolutionary
22 In version F, what could Mary be?
A priest

A counterespionage agent

A doctor

A scientist
23 What, according to the narrator, is the authentic ending to the story?
Writing is difficult.

Nobody gets out alive.

John and Mary die.

Madge is better than Mary.
24 What, according to the narrator, is "just one thing after another" (F)?
History

Life

Plot

Death
25 What does the narrator say the reader should try at the end of the story?
The How and Why

Literary devices

Reading another story

Better plots

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