Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
Canada

United States

England

France
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"?
Mortality

Writing

Religion

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

Six

Three

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

The Blind Assassin

To the Lighthouse

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

Socialist

Surrealist

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

Third person

First person

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

John and Mary

Mary and Fred

Mary and Madge
9 In version A, what happens?
Mary and John never meet.

John loses his job.

Mary divorces John.

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

Mary is an alcoholic.

Mary forgets who John is.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.
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?
A restaurant

The theater

His house

The ocean
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She has a baby with James.

She confronts Madge.

She dies by suicide.

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

James

John

Madge
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Sell drugs

Cheat on Mary

Ride his motorcycle

Volunteer at the library
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They do not die.

They die of a terminal disease.

John shoots them, and himself.

They die in a car accident.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She is killed by James.

She dies by suicide.

She catches John with Mary.

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

Near a lake

By the sea

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

Murder

Car accident

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

Fred's birdwatching

Mary's cooking

Fred's gardening
21 In version F, what could John be?
A lawyer

A doctor

A father

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

A doctor

A counterespionage agent

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

Nobody gets out alive.

John and Mary die.

Writing is difficult.
24 What, according to the narrator, is "just one thing after another" (F)?
History

Death

Plot

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

Literary devices

Better plots

Reading another story

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