Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

1 What have the narrator's eyes become with hatred?

Slewed mirrors

Dark green pebbles

Blind

Red balloons bursting
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Trembling

Fluent

Frozen

Still
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The wedding cake

Her ex-fiance

The lost body

The red balloons
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"

Her own blood

Her wedding gown

Her curses

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"

bite

jerk

snap

become
7 Which of the following words or phrases does the speaker use to describe her mirror?

shattered

misted

shrouded

full-length
8 Fill in the blank: "I stink and ________."

strangle

stab

remember

caw
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the speaker's neck

Around the neck of the lost body

On the back of the speaker's hands

In the speaker's eyes
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."

spinster

bastard

scoundrel

sweetheart
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

The narrator throws it out

It loses its shape

It tears

It yellows
12 What does the narrator pray for?

To give birth to a daughter

For the man who left her to change his mind

The death of the man who left her at the altar

To die
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"

better

worse

breathless

petrifying
14 Where does the narrator spend "whole days"?

In bed

In the basement

In the bathroom

In front of the mirror
15 Which of the following images does not appear in this poem?

A veil

A wedding dress

A cake

A diamond ring
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Love's hate

Miss Havisham

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?

Not only the heart

The mirror

A vase of flowers

Her wedding shoes
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?

To throw in the Thames

To burn

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province
20 The man who once rejected and swindled Miss Havisham returns at the end of this poem.

True

False
21 Where does this poem take place?

The speaker's school

Pip's home

The market

The speaker's home
22 Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, Estella, does not appear in this poem.

True

False
23 Estella and Pip appear in the background of this poem.

True

False
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.

True

False
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?

A gift from an unknown suitor

An old diary

The wardrobe

Her front door

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