Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?

France

Canada

England

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

The Handmaid's Tale

Murder in the Dark

The Blind Assassin

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

Mortality

Gender roles

Writing

Religion
4 How many different parts compose the short story?

Three

Six

Five

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

Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale

The Blind Assassin

To the Lighthouse
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?

Surrealist

Feminist

Unskilled

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

First person

Omniscient

Second person

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

John and Mary

Madge and John

Mary and Fred

Mary and Madge
9 In version A, what happens?

Mary divorces John.

Mary and John fall in love.

Mary and John never meet.

John loses his job.
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?

James

Madge

Nobody

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

A restaurant

The theater

His house

The ocean
13 What happens to Mary in version B?

She marries Fred.

She confronts Madge.

She dies by suicide.

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

Fred

John

Madge

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

Cheat on Mary

Sell drugs

Volunteer at the library

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

They do not die.

They die of a terminal disease.

They die in a car accident.

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

She marries Fred.

She is killed by James.

She catches John with Mary.

She dies by suicide.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?

In the mountains

By the sea

In the desert

Near a lake
19 How does Fred die in version E?

Car accident

Heart attack

Cancer

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

Mary's knitting

Mary's cooking

Fred's birdwatching

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

A doctor

A father

A revolutionary

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

A priest

A counterespionage agent

A doctor

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

Writing is difficult.

Madge is better than Mary.

John and Mary die.

Nobody gets out alive.
24 What, according to the narrator, is "just one thing after another" (F)?

Life

Plot

Death

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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