Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Slewed mirrors

Blind
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

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

Fluent

Frozen

Still
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The wedding cake

The red balloons

Her ex-fiance

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

Her curses

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

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

jerk

snap

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

misted

shrouded

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

caw

remember

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

On the back of the speaker's hands

In the speaker's eyes

Around the neck of the lost body
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."
bastard

spinster

sweetheart

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

The narrator throws it out

It loses its shape

It tears
12 What does the narrator pray for?
To give birth to a daughter

To die

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"
worse

petrifying

better

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

In bed

In the bathroom

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

A wedding dress

A veil

A cake
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Love's hate

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Miss Havisham

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

Not only the heart

Her wedding shoes

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 plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed
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?
Pip's home

The market

The speaker's school

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.

False

True
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.

True

False
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?
An old diary

The wardrobe

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

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