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

Hag-Seed

The Blind Assassin

The Handmaid's Tale
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?
Five

Three

Six

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

To the Lighthouse

The Handmaid's Tale

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

Unskilled

Feminist

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

Third person

Omniscient

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

Mary and Fred

Mary and Madge

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

Mary and John fall in love.

Mary and John never meet.

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

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

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

Madge

James

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

The theater

The ocean

His house
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?
Fred

Madge

James

John
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Volunteer at the library

Ride his motorcycle

Sell drugs

Cheat on Mary
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They do not die.

They die of a terminal disease.

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 marries Fred.

She dies by suicide.

She is killed by James.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
In the desert

By the sea

Near a lake

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

Cancer

Murder

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

Mary's knitting

Mary's cooking

Fred's birdwatching
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 doctor

A priest

A scientist

A counterespionage agent
23 What, according to the narrator, is the authentic ending to the story?
Nobody gets out alive.

Writing is difficult.

Madge is better than Mary.

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

Death

Life

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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