Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Blind

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

Charles Bukowski

Charles Dickens

Ernest Hemingway
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Frozen

Trembling

Fluent

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

The lost body

Her ex-fiance

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

Her own blood

Her wedding gown

Her curses
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"
become

jerk

bite

snap
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 ________."
caw

strangle

remember

stab
9 Where do ropes appear?
Around the neck of the lost body

On the back of the speaker's hands

In the speaker's eyes

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?
It tears

It yellows

The narrator throws it out

It loses its shape
12 What does the narrator pray for?
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

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

petrifying

worse

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

In the basement

In front of the mirror

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

A veil

A diamond ring

A cake
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Miss Havisham

Love's hate

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

Her wedding shoes

The mirror

Not only the heart
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To burn

For a honeymoon

To throw in the Thames

To accompany her to the altar
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham does not leave her home
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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