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?
Murder in the Dark

The Handmaid's Tale

The Blind Assassin

Hag-Seed
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?
Mortality

Religion

Writing

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

Four

Six

Five
5 What is Margaret Atwood's most famous work?
To the Lighthouse

Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale

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

Surrealist

Unskilled

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

Third person

First person

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

Mary and Madge

Mary and Fred

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

Mary and John fall in love.

Mary divorces John.

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

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

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

Nobody

James

Madge
12 In version B, where does John never take Mary?
The theater

The ocean

A restaurant

His house
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She marries Fred.

She dies by suicide.

She has a baby with James.

She confronts Madge.
14 In version C, who does Mary love?
Fred

James

John

Madge
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Ride his motorcycle

Cheat on Mary

Sell drugs

Volunteer at the library
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They die in a car accident.

John shoots them, and himself.

They do not die.

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

She marries Fred.

She is killed by James.

She catches John with Mary.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
Near a lake

By the sea

In the mountains

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

Heart attack

Murder

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

Mary's knitting

Fred's gardening

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

A revolutionary

A father

A lawyer
22 In version F, what could Mary be?
A counterespionage agent

A scientist

A doctor

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

Nobody gets out alive.

John and Mary die.

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

Plot

Death

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

Reading another story

Literary devices

The How and Why

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