Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Dark green pebbles

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

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski

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

Trembling

Fluent

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

The lost body

The red balloons

The wedding cake
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her wedding gown

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

misted

full-length

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

stab

caw

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 ______."
spinster

bastard

sweetheart

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

It loses its shape

The narrator throws it out

It yellows
12 What does the narrator pray for?
The death of the man who left her at the altar

To die

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

petrifying

breathless

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

In the bathroom

In bed

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

A cake

A diamond ring

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

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

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?
To burn

To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon

To throw in the Thames
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.
True

False
21 Where does this poem take place?
Pip's home

The speaker's school

The speaker's home

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

The wardrobe

Her front door

An old diary

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