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

Murder in the Dark

The Handmaid's Tale

The Blind Assassin
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?
Four

Three

Six

Five
5 What is Margaret Atwood's most famous work?
Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale

To the Lighthouse

The Blind Assassin
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?
Unskilled

Surrealist

Feminist

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

First person

Omniscient

Third person
8 Who are the two initial characters introduced in the story?
Madge and John

Mary and Madge

Mary and Fred

John and Mary
9 In version A, what happens?
Mary and John fall in love.

John loses his job.

Mary divorces John.

Mary and John never meet.
10 In version B, what is the central conflict between John and Mary?
John cannot tell Mary he loves her.

Mary is an alcoholic.

Mary forgets who John is.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?
Nobody

James

Madge

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

A restaurant

The ocean

His house
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She confronts Madge.

She dies by suicide.

She has a baby with James.

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

John

Fred

Madge
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Volunteer at the library

Cheat on Mary

Ride his motorcycle

Sell drugs
16 How do James and Mary die in version C?
They do not die.

They die in a car accident.

They die of a terminal disease.

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

She dies by suicide.

She is killed by James.

She catches John with Mary.
18 Where do Fred and Madge live in version D?
In the mountains

By the sea

In the desert

Near a lake
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?
Mary's knitting

Fred's birdwatching

Mary's cooking

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

A doctor

A father

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

A scientist

A priest

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)?
Death

History

Plot

Life
25 What does the narrator say the reader should try at the end of the story?
Reading another story

Literary devices

Better plots

The How and Why

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