Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Dark green pebbles

Slewed mirrors
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

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

Fluent

Still

Trembling
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The red balloons

The wedding cake

Her ex-fiance

The lost body
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

bite

jerk

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

shrouded

misted

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

remember

strangle

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

Around the speaker's neck

Around the neck of the lost body

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

sweetheart

bastard

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
It loses its shape

The narrator throws it out

It yellows

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

To die

To give birth to a daughter

The death of the man who left her at the altar
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"
better

breathless

worse

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

In the basement

In front of the mirror

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

A wedding dress

A veil

A diamond ring
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?
Her wedding shoes

A vase of flowers

The mirror

Not only the heart
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon

To burn

To throw in the Thames
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham does not leave her home
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 home

Pip's home

The speaker's school

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

False

True
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?
An old diary

The wardrobe

A gift from an unknown suitor

Her front door

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