Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Blind

Slewed mirrors

Dark green pebbles
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Trembling

Still

Fluent

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 wedding gown

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her curses
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?
misted

shrouded

shattered

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

remember

stab

strangle
9 Where do ropes appear?
Around the speaker's neck

On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the neck of the lost body

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

bastard

sweetheart

scoundrel
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?
To give birth to a daughter

The death of the man who left her at the altar

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

breathless

better

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

In front of the mirror

In the basement

In the bathroom
15 Which of the following images does not appear in this poem?
A wedding dress

A veil

A diamond ring

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?
The mirror

Not only the heart

A vase of flowers

Her wedding shoes
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon

To burn

To accompany her to the altar
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed
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

The market

Pip's home

The speaker's home
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.

True

False
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.
True

False
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?
Her front door

The wardrobe

A gift from an unknown suitor

An old diary

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