Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Blind

Dark green pebbles

Slewed mirrors

Red balloons bursting
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?

Charles Dickens

Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Vladimir Nabokov
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Fluent

Still

Frozen

Trembling
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The wedding cake

Her ex-fiance

The lost body

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

jerk

become

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

misted

shrouded

full-length

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

strangle

caw

stab

remember
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the neck of the lost body

In the speaker's eyes

On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the speaker's neck
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."

bastard

scoundrel

sweetheart

spinster
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

The narrator throws it out

It loses its shape

It tears

It yellows
12 What does the narrator pray for?

To die

For the man who left her to change his mind

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"

breathless

worse

petrifying

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

In the bathroom

In bed

In front of the mirror

In the basement
15 Which of the following images does not appear in this poem?

A veil

A cake

A wedding dress

A diamond ring
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Love's hate

Miss Havisham

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?

Not only the heart

Her wedding shoes

The mirror

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

To burn

To accompany her to the altar

To throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province
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 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?

A gift from an unknown suitor

Her front door

The wardrobe

An old diary

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