Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
United States

Canada

England

France
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"?
Religion

Writing

Gender roles

Mortality
4 How many different parts compose the short story?
Three

Four

Five

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

The Blind Assassin

To the Lighthouse

The Handmaid's Tale
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?
Feminist

Surrealist

Unskilled

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

Second person

Omniscient

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

Mary and Madge

John and Mary

Mary and Fred
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 forgets who John is.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

Mary is an alcoholic.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?
James

Nobody

Madge

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

A restaurant

His house

The theater
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?
Fred

Madge

James

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

Ride his motorcycle

Volunteer at the library

Sell drugs
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They die of a terminal disease.

John shoots them, and himself.

They die in a car accident.

They do not die.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She is killed by James.

She catches John with Mary.

She dies by suicide.

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

In the desert

Near a lake

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

Heart attack

Car accident

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

Mary's knitting

Fred's gardening

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

A revolutionary

A lawyer

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

A scientist

A counterespionage agent

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

John and Mary die.

Madge is better than Mary.

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

Plot

Life

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

Reading another story

Better plots

Literary devices

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