Happy Endings Quizzes

Happy Endings Quiz 1

1 Where is Margaret Atwood from?
Canada

France

England

United States
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"?
Mortality

Writing

Religion

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

Four

Three

Five
5 What is Margaret Atwood's most famous work?
The Blind Assassin

To the Lighthouse

Hag-Seed

The Handmaid's Tale
6 Many consider Atwood what kind of author?
Surrealist

Feminist

Socialist

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

Omniscient

Second person

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

John and Mary

Mary and Madge

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 is an alcoholic.

Mary loves John, but John only uses Mary.

Mary forgets who John is.

John cannot tell Mary he loves her.
11 In version B, with who does John have an affair?
Nobody

Madge

James

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

The ocean

His house

A restaurant
13 What happens to Mary in version B?
She marries Fred.

She dies by suicide.

She has a baby with James.

She confronts Madge.
14 In version C, who does Mary love?
John

Madge

James

Fred
15 In version C, what does James like to do?
Ride his motorcycle

Volunteer at the library

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.

John shoots them, and himself.

They die of a terminal disease.
17 What happens to Madge in version C?
She is killed by James.

She catches John with Mary.

She marries Fred.

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

Near a lake

By the sea

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

Murder

Heart attack

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 father

A doctor

A revolutionary

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

A doctor

A counterespionage agent

A scientist
23 What, according to the narrator, is the authentic ending to the story?
Nobody gets out alive.

Madge is better than Mary.

John and Mary die.

Writing is difficult.
24 What, according to the narrator, is "just one thing after another" (F)?
Death

History

Life

Plot
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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