Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Blind

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

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Bukowski

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

Trembling

Frozen

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

The red balloons

The lost body

The wedding cake
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her curses

Her own blood

Her wedding gown

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"
bite

snap

become

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

shrouded

misted

full-length
8 Fill in the blank: "I stink and ________."
remember

strangle

caw

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

On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the neck of the lost body

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

scoundrel

bastard

spinster
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
The narrator throws it out

It tears

It yellows

It loses its shape
12 What does the narrator pray for?
For the man who left her to change his mind

To die

The death of the man who left her at the altar

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

better

breathless

worse
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 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

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Miss Havisham
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
Her wedding shoes

Not only the heart

The mirror

A vase of flowers
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To burn

To throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar
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.
True

False
21 Where does this poem take place?
The speaker's school

The market

Pip's home

The speaker's home
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

An old diary

Her front door

The wardrobe

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