Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
United States

England

France

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

Murder in the Dark

The Handmaid's Tale

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

Religion

Gender roles

Mortality
4 How many different parts compose the short story?
Four

Five

Six

Three
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?
Socialist

Surrealist

Unskilled

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

Second person

Omniscient

Third 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 and John never meet.

Mary divorces John.

John loses his job.
10 In version B, what is the central conflict between John and Mary?
Mary forgets who John is.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary is an alcoholic.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?
Mary

James

Madge

Nobody
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 confronts Madge.

She marries Fred.

She has a baby with James.

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

Madge

John

James
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Cheat on Mary

Volunteer at the library

Ride his motorcycle

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

They do not die.

They die in a car accident.

They die of a terminal disease.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She catches John with Mary.

She dies by suicide.

She is killed by James.

She marries Fred.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
By the sea

Near a lake

In the mountains

In the desert
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 cooking

Mary's knitting

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

A lawyer

A father

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

A doctor

A scientist

A priest
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)?
Death

Plot

Life

History
25 What does the narrator say the reader should try at the end of the story?
Better plots

The How and Why

Reading another story

Literary devices

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