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 Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Dickens
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Fluent

Trembling

Still

Frozen
4 What does the narrator stab at?
Her ex-fiance

The red balloons

The wedding cake

The lost body
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her wedding gown

Her curses

Her own blood

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams
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

full-length

shrouded

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

strangle

stab

caw
9 Where do ropes appear?
On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the neck of the lost body

In the speaker's eyes

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

spinster

sweetheart

bastard
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?
For the man who left her to change his mind

The death of the man who left her at the altar

To give birth to a daughter

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

breathless

better

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

In front of the mirror

In bed

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

A wedding dress

A diamond ring

A veil
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Love's hate

Miss Havisham
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 burn

To throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband
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.
True

False
23 Estella and Pip appear in the background of this poem.
False

True
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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