Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
England

Canada

France

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

Hag-Seed

Murder in the Dark

The Handmaid's Tale
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?
Religion

Writing

Mortality

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

Four

Three

Six
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?
Unskilled

Surrealist

Socialist

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

Second person

Third person

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

Mary and Madge

John and Mary

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

Mary divorces John.

Mary and John fall in love.

John loses his job.
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.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary forgets who John is.
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 ocean

A restaurant

The theater
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?
John

Madge

Fred

James
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Cheat on Mary

Volunteer at the library

Ride his motorcycle

Sell drugs
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They die in a car accident.

They do not die.

John shoots them, and himself.

They die of a terminal disease.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She is killed by James.

She dies by suicide.

She marries Fred.

She catches John with Mary.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
By the sea

Near a lake

In the mountains

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

Car accident

Cancer

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

Fred's birdwatching

Mary's cooking

Mary's knitting
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 counterespionage agent

A priest

A doctor

A scientist
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

Death

History

Plot
25 What does the narrator say the reader should try at the end of the story?
Literary devices

Reading another story

Better plots

The How and Why

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