Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Dark green pebbles

Blind

Slewed mirrors
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Dickens
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Trembling

Frozen

Fluent

Still
4 What does the narrator stab at?

Her ex-fiance

The lost body

The wedding cake

The red balloons
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"

bite

snap

jerk

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

full-length

shattered

misted

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

remember

caw

stab

strangle
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the neck of the lost body

On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the speaker's neck

In the speaker's eyes
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."

sweetheart

scoundrel

spinster

bastard
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

The narrator throws it out

It yellows

It loses its shape

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 die

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

breathless

worse

better

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

In the basement

In front of the mirror

In the bathroom

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

A wedding dress

A diamond ring

A cake

A veil
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Miss Havisham

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Love's hate

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

The mirror

Her wedding shoes

A vase of flowers

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

For a honeymoon

To throw in the Thames

To accompany her to the altar

To burn
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

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?

Pip's home

The speaker's home

The market

The speaker's school
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.

True

False
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.

False

True
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?

The wardrobe

An old diary

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

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