Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
United States

Canada

France

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

The Handmaid's Tale

Murder in the Dark

Hag-Seed
3 Which of these is not a central theme of "Happy Endings"?
Writing

Mortality

Gender roles

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

Six

Three

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

The Blind Assassin

Hag-Seed

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

Unskilled

Feminist

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

First person

Second person

Omniscient
8 Who are the two initial characters introduced in the story?
Mary and Madge

Madge and John

John and Mary

Mary and Fred
9 In version A, what happens?
Mary and John never meet.

Mary divorces John.

John loses his job.

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

Mary forgets who John is.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

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

Nobody

James

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

The theater

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?
James

Fred

John

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

Cheat on Mary

Volunteer at the library

Ride his motorcycle
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They die of a terminal disease.

They die in a car accident.

John shoots them, and himself.

They do not die.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She catches John with Mary.

She marries Fred.

She dies by suicide.

She is killed by James.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
By the sea

In the desert

Near a lake

In the mountains
19 How does Fred die in version E?
Murder

Cancer

Heart attack

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

Fred's birdwatching

Mary's cooking

Mary's knitting
21 In version F, what could John be?
A father

A lawyer

A doctor

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

A priest

A scientist

A doctor
23 What, according to the narrator, is the authentic ending to the story?
Writing is difficult.

Madge is better than Mary.

Nobody gets out alive.

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

Plot

Death

History
25 What does the narrator say the reader should try at the end of the story?
Literary devices

The How and Why

Reading another story

Better plots

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