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?

The Handmaid's Tale

Hag-Seed

Murder in the Dark

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

Religion

Writing

Mortality

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

Five

Six

Three

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

The Blind Assassin

To the Lighthouse

The Handmaid's Tale

Hag-Seed
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?

Feminist

Unskilled

Socialist

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

Omniscient

Second person

Third person

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

John and Mary

Madge and John

Mary and Madge

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 loves John, but John only uses Mary.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary is an alcoholic.

Mary forgets who John is.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?

Madge

Mary

Nobody

James
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 has a baby with James.

She confronts Madge.

She dies by suicide.

She marries Fred.
14 In version C, who does Mary love?

Madge

James

John

Fred
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 die in a car accident.

They do not die.

They die of a terminal disease.

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

She marries Fred.

She catches John with Mary.

She is killed by James.

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

Near a lake

In the mountains

By the sea

In the desert
19 How does Fred die in version E?

Heart attack

Murder

Cancer

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

Fred's gardening

Mary's cooking

Fred's birdwatching

Mary's knitting
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 doctor

A scientist

A counterespionage agent

A priest
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

Life

History

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

Literary devices

Reading another story

Better plots

The How and Why

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