Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
Canada

United States

England

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

The Handmaid's Tale

Murder in the Dark

The Blind Assassin
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?
Gender roles

Writing

Mortality

Religion
4 How many different parts compose the short story?
Five

Three

Six

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?
Socialist

Unskilled

Surrealist

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

Second person

First person

Omniscient
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?
John loses his job.

Mary and John fall in love.

Mary and John never meet.

Mary divorces John.
10 In version B, what is the central conflict between John and Mary?
Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

Mary is an alcoholic.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary forgets who John is.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?
Nobody

James

Mary

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

The ocean

A restaurant

His house
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

Ride his motorcycle

Cheat on Mary

Sell drugs
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
John shoots them, and himself.

They die of a terminal disease.

They die in a car accident.

They do not die.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She dies by suicide.

She is killed by James.

She catches John with Mary.

She marries Fred.
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

Murder

Heart attack

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

Mary's knitting

Mary's cooking

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

A father

A lawyer

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?
John and Mary die.

Writing is difficult.

Nobody gets out alive.

Madge is better than Mary.
24 What, according to the narrator, is "just one thing after another" (F)?
Life

Plot

History

Death
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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