Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?

United States

France

England

Canada
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"?

Mortality

Gender roles

Writing

Religion
4 How many different parts compose the short story?

Five

Four

Three

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

The Blind Assassin

Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale

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

Surrealist

Socialist

Feminist

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

Second person

Omniscient

First person

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

John and Mary

Mary and Fred

Madge and John

Mary and Madge
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.

Mary forgets who John is.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.
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?

His house

The theater

The ocean

A restaurant
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?

James

John

Fred

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

Volunteer at the library

Ride his motorcycle

Cheat on Mary

Sell drugs
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?

They do not die.

John shoots them, and himself.

They die of a terminal disease.

They die in a car accident.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?

She is killed by James.

She dies by suicide.

She marries Fred.

She catches John with Mary.
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

Cancer

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

Mary's cooking

Fred's birdwatching

Mary's knitting

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

A lawyer

A doctor

A father

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

A priest

A doctor

A counterespionage agent

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

Madge is better than Mary.

Writing is difficult.

Nobody gets out alive.

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

History

Death

Plot

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

Literary devices

Better plots

The How and Why

Reading another story

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