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?
The Handmaid's Tale

The Blind Assassin

Hag-Seed

Murder in the Dark
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?
Gender roles

Religion

Mortality

Writing
4 How many different parts compose the short story?
Five

Six

Four

Three
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?
Socialist

Surrealist

Feminist

Unskilled
7 From which perspective is "Happy Endings" narrated?
Second person

First person

Omniscient

Third person
8 Who are the two initial characters introduced in the story?
Mary and Fred

Madge and John

Mary and Madge

John and Mary
9 In version A, what happens?
John loses his job.

Mary divorces John.

Mary and John never meet.

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

Mary is an alcoholic.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.
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?
The ocean

A restaurant

The theater

His house
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She confronts Madge.

She has a baby with James.

She marries Fred.

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

John

Madge

Fred
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 die of a terminal disease.

John shoots them, and himself.

They do not die.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She dies by suicide.

She catches John with Mary.

She is killed by James.

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?
Car accident

Heart attack

Murder

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

Mary's cooking

Mary's knitting

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

A lawyer

A father

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

A priest

A scientist

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

Nobody gets out alive.

Madge is better than Mary.

John and Mary die.
24 What, according to the narrator, is "just one thing after another" (F)?
Plot

Life

History

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

Reading another story

Literary devices

Better plots

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