Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
England

United States

France

Canada
2 In what collection was "Happy Endings" originally published?
The Blind Assassin

The Handmaid's Tale

Murder in the Dark

Hag-Seed
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?
Gender roles

Writing

Mortality

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

Five

Six

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

The Handmaid's Tale

The Blind Assassin

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

Socialist

Unskilled

Surrealist
7 From which perspective is "Happy Endings" narrated?
Second person

Third person

First person

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

Madge and John

Mary and Fred

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

Mary divorces John.

Mary and John never meet.

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 is an alcoholic.

Mary forgets who John is.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?
Nobody

Mary

James

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

A restaurant

His house

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?
Madge

James

Fred

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

Sell drugs

Volunteer at the library

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

They die of a terminal disease.

They do not die.

They die in a car accident.
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?
Near a lake

In the mountains

In the desert

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

Car accident

Cancer

Murder
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 doctor

A father

A lawyer

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

A doctor

A priest

A counterespionage agent
23 What, according to the narrator, is the authentic ending to the story?
Madge is better than Mary.

Nobody gets out alive.

Writing is difficult.

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

History

Death

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

Better plots

Literary devices

The How and Why

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