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

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

Charles Bukowski
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Trembling

Fluent

Still

Frozen
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The lost body

The red balloons

The wedding cake

Her ex-fiance
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"

Her own blood

Her curses

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her wedding gown
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"

bite

jerk

become

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

shattered

shrouded

full-length

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

caw

stab

remember

strangle
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the speaker's neck

In the speaker's eyes

On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the neck of the lost body
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."

spinster

bastard

scoundrel

sweetheart
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

It loses its shape

It yellows

The narrator throws it out

It tears
12 What does the narrator pray for?

To give birth to a daughter

For the man who left her to change his mind

To die

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

breathless

better

petrifying

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

In bed

In front of the mirror

In the bathroom

In the basement
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

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?

Her wedding shoes

Not only the heart

The mirror

A vase of flowers
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?

To burn

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar

To throw in the Thames
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham does not leave her home
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 school

The market

Pip's home

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?

An old diary

A gift from an unknown suitor

The wardrobe

Her front door

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