Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Blind

Dark green pebbles
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski

Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Trembling

Fluent

Frozen

Still
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The wedding cake

The lost body

The red balloons

Her ex-fiance
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"
become

jerk

bite

snap
7 Which of the following words or phrases does the speaker use to describe her mirror?
full-length

misted

shrouded

shattered
8 Fill in the blank: "I stink and ________."
strangle

stab

caw

remember
9 Where do ropes appear?
In the speaker's eyes

Around the neck of the lost body

Around the speaker's neck

On the back of the speaker's hands
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."
spinster

sweetheart

scoundrel

bastard
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
The narrator throws it out

It loses its shape

It yellows

It tears
12 What does the narrator pray for?
For the man who left her to change his mind

The death of the man who left her at the altar

To give birth to a daughter

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

better

petrifying

breathless
14 Where does the narrator spend "whole days"?
In front of the mirror

In the basement

In the bathroom

In bed
15 Which of the following images does not appear in this poem?
A veil

A diamond ring

A wedding dress

A cake
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Miss Havisham

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Love's hate
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
A vase of flowers

Her wedding shoes

The mirror

Not only the heart
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar

To throw in the Thames

To burn
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband
20 The man who once rejected and swindled Miss Havisham returns at the end of this poem.
False

True
21 Where does this poem take place?
The speaker's home

Pip's home

The market

The speaker's school
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.

False

True
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.
True

False
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?
The wardrobe

An old diary

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

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