Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?

United States

France

Canada

England
2 In what collection was "Happy Endings" originally published?

The Handmaid's Tale

Hag-Seed

The Blind Assassin

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

Mortality

Writing

Gender roles

Religion
4 How many different parts compose the short story?

Six

Five

Three

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

The Blind Assassin

The Handmaid's Tale

Hag-Seed

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

Feminist

Socialist

Surrealist

Unskilled
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?

Mary and Fred

Madge and John

John and Mary

Mary and Madge
9 In version A, what happens?

Mary and John fall in love.

Mary divorces John.

Mary and John never meet.

John loses his job.
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 forgets who John is.

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

Madge

Mary

James

Nobody
12 In version B, where does John never take Mary?

The theater

A restaurant

His house

The ocean
13 What happens to Mary in version B?

She dies by suicide.

She confronts Madge.

She has a baby with James.

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

Madge

James

Fred

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

Cheat on Mary

Ride his motorcycle

Sell drugs

Volunteer at the library
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?

They die of a terminal disease.

John shoots them, and himself.

They do not die.

They die in a car accident.
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?

In the desert

In the mountains

By the sea

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

Heart attack

Car accident

Murder

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

Fred's gardening

Mary's knitting

Fred's birdwatching

Mary's cooking
21 In version F, what could John be?

A doctor

A father

A revolutionary

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

A counterespionage agent

A priest

A doctor

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

Madge is better than Mary.

John and Mary die.

Writing is difficult.

Nobody gets out alive.
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?

Better plots

Reading another story

Literary devices

The How and Why

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