Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?

France

England

Canada

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

Religion

Gender roles

Mortality
4 How many different parts compose the short story?

Four

Five

Three

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

Hag-Seed

To the Lighthouse

The Blind Assassin

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

Socialist

Feminist

Unskilled

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

Second person

Omniscient

Third person

First 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.

Mary divorces John.

John loses his job.

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

Mary is an alcoholic.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary forgets who John is.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?

Nobody

Mary

Madge

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

His house

The theater

A restaurant

The ocean
13 What happens to Mary in version B?

She marries Fred.

She has a baby with James.

She confronts Madge.

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

James

John

Fred

Madge
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 do not die.

John shoots them, and himself.

They die in a car accident.

They die of a terminal disease.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?

She dies by suicide.

She catches John with Mary.

She marries Fred.

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

Near a lake

In the mountains

By the sea

In the desert
19 How does Fred die in version E?

Cancer

Car accident

Heart attack

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

Fred's birdwatching

Fred's gardening

Mary's knitting

Mary's cooking
21 In version F, what could John be?

A revolutionary

A doctor

A lawyer

A father
22 In version F, what could Mary be?

A doctor

A scientist

A priest

A counterespionage agent
23 What, according to the narrator, is the authentic ending to the story?

John and Mary die.

Madge is better than Mary.

Nobody gets out alive.

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

Death

Life

Plot

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

Better plots

The How and Why

Literary devices

Reading another story

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