Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
Canada

France

United States

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

Murder in the Dark

The Handmaid's Tale

The Blind Assassin
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?
Six

Three

Four

Five
5 What is Margaret Atwood's most famous work?
The Handmaid's Tale

The Blind Assassin

Hag-Seed

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

Socialist

Unskilled

Feminist
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?
Mary and Madge

Mary and Fred

Madge and John

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

Mary and John fall in love.

John loses his job.

Mary divorces John.
10 In version B, what is the central conflict between John and Mary?
John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary is an alcoholic.

Mary forgets who John is.

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

Madge

Nobody

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

The theater

The ocean

A restaurant
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She marries Fred.

She confronts Madge.

She dies by suicide.

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?
Cheat on Mary

Ride his motorcycle

Volunteer at the library

Sell drugs
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They die of a terminal disease.

They die in a car accident.

They do not die.

John shoots them, and himself.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She marries Fred.

She catches John with Mary.

She dies by suicide.

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

In the desert

Near a lake

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

Cancer

Car accident

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 cooking

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

A lawyer

A revolutionary

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

A counterespionage agent

A priest

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

John and Mary die.

Nobody gets out alive.

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

Plot

Death

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

Reading another story

The How and Why

Literary devices

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