Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Slewed mirrors

Dark green pebbles
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Charles Bukowski

Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Trembling

Frozen

Fluent
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The red balloons

The wedding cake

The lost body

Her ex-fiance
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"
become

bite

snap

jerk
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 ________."
caw

remember

stab

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

Around the neck of the lost body

On the back of the speaker's hands

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

sweetheart

scoundrel

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

It loses its shape

It tears

The narrator throws it out
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

better

breathless
14 Where does the narrator spend "whole days"?
In the bathroom

In the basement

In bed

In front of the mirror
15 Which of the following images does not appear in this poem?
A veil

A cake

A diamond ring

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

Love's hate

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 throw in the Thames

To burn

To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon
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 school

The market

The speaker's home

Pip'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.
True

False
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.
False

True
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?
Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

An old diary

The wardrobe

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