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?

Murder in the Dark

The Handmaid's Tale

Hag-Seed

The Blind Assassin
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?

Religion

Mortality

Gender roles

Writing
4 How many different parts compose the short story?

Four

Three

Five

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

The Handmaid's Tale

To the Lighthouse

Hag-Seed

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

Unskilled

Socialist

Feminist

Surrealist
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?

Mary and Madge

Mary and Fred

Madge and John

John and Mary
9 In version A, what happens?

Mary and John fall in love.

Mary divorces John.

John loses his job.

Mary and John never meet.
10 In version B, what is the central conflict between John and Mary?

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary is an alcoholic.

Mary forgets who John is.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?

James

Nobody

Mary

Madge
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 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

Madge

John
15 In version C, what does James like to do?

Cheat on Mary

Ride his motorcycle

Sell drugs

Volunteer at the library
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?

John shoots them, and himself.

They do not die.

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 is killed by James.

She catches John with Mary.

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

Near a lake

In the desert

By the sea

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

Cancer

Murder

Heart attack

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

Fred's gardening

Mary's knitting

Fred's birdwatching

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

A lawyer

A doctor

A revolutionary

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

A counterespionage agent

A scientist

A priest

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

Nobody gets out alive.

John and Mary die.

Madge is better than Mary.

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

Plot

Death

Life

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

Reading another story

The How and Why

Better plots

Literary devices

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