Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
England

France

Canada

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

The Blind Assassin

The Handmaid's Tale

Murder in the Dark
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?
Mortality

Writing

Religion

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

Three

Four

Six
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?
Unskilled

Feminist

Socialist

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

First person

Omniscient

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

Mary and Madge

John and Mary

Madge and John
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?
Mary forgets who John is.

Mary is an alcoholic.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.
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

The theater

His house

A restaurant
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She marries Fred.

She has a baby with James.

She confronts Madge.

She dies by suicide.
14 In version C, who does Mary love?
Madge

James

Fred

John
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Volunteer at the library

Sell drugs

Ride his motorcycle

Cheat on Mary
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 dies by suicide.

She catches John with Mary.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
In the mountains

In the desert

By the sea

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

Car accident

Heart attack

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

Mary's knitting

Mary's cooking

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

A father

A revolutionary

A doctor
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.

Nobody gets out alive.

Madge is better than Mary.

John and Mary die.
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?
Better plots

Literary devices

Reading another story

The How and Why

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