Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?

England

France

United States

Canada
2 In what collection was "Happy Endings" originally published?

Hag-Seed

The Blind Assassin

Murder in the Dark

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

Writing

Gender roles

Religion

Mortality
4 How many different parts compose the short story?

Three

Four

Six

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

Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale

To the Lighthouse

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

Surrealist

Socialist

Unskilled

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

Omniscient

First person

Third person

Second person
8 Who are the two initial characters introduced in the story?

Mary and Madge

Madge and John

John and Mary

Mary and Fred
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 forgets who John is.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

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

James

Mary

Madge

Nobody
12 In version B, where does John never take Mary?

The ocean

The theater

A restaurant

His house
13 What happens to Mary in version B?

She confronts Madge.

She dies by suicide.

She marries Fred.

She has a baby with James.
14 In version C, who does Mary love?

John

Fred

James

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

Volunteer at the library

Sell drugs

Cheat on Mary

Ride his motorcycle
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?

They do not die.

They die in a car accident.

They die of a terminal disease.

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

She is killed by James.

She dies by suicide.

She catches John with Mary.

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

Near a lake

By the sea

In the desert

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

Murder

Cancer

Heart attack

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

Mary's cooking

Fred's gardening

Fred's birdwatching

Mary's knitting
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 scientist

A doctor

A counterespionage agent

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

John and Mary die.

Madge is better than Mary.

Nobody gets out alive.

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

Death

History

Plot

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

Reading another story

Literary devices

Better plots

The How and Why

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