Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Blind

Dark green pebbles

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

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Bukowski
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Frozen

Fluent

Still

Trembling
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 wedding gown

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her curses

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

snap

bite

jerk

become
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

stab

strangle

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

sweetheart

bastard

spinster
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

It yellows

It tears

It loses its shape

The narrator throws it out
12 What does the narrator pray for?

To die

To give birth to a daughter

For the man who left her to change his mind

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 the bathroom

In front of the mirror

In the basement

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

A cake

A diamond ring

A wedding dress

A veil
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Miss Havisham

Love's hate
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?

A vase of flowers

Not only the heart

The mirror

Her wedding shoes
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar

To throw in the Thames

To burn
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

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.

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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