Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Slewed mirrors

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

Charles Dickens

Ernest Hemingway

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

Frozen

Fluent

Still
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The lost body

The wedding cake

Her ex-fiance

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

Her wedding gown

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her own blood
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"
snap

become

bite

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

shrouded

shattered

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

caw

strangle

remember
9 Where do ropes appear?
Around the neck of the lost body

In the speaker's eyes

Around the speaker's neck

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

spinster

scoundrel

bastard
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
It yellows

It loses its shape

The narrator throws it out

It tears
12 What does the narrator pray for?
To die

The death of the man who left her at the altar

For the man who left her to change his mind

To give birth to a daughter
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"
breathless

worse

petrifying

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

In the bathroom

In the basement

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

A veil

A wedding dress

A cake
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Miss Havisham

Love's hate

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

A vase of flowers

Her wedding shoes

The mirror
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar

To burn
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 market

Pip's home

The speaker's home

The speaker's school
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.

False

True
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?
A gift from an unknown suitor

Her front door

An old diary

The wardrobe

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