Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Blind

Slewed mirrors

Red balloons bursting

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

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Dickens

Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Still

Frozen

Trembling

Fluent
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"

jerk

snap

become

bite
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 ________."

stab

remember

caw

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 ______."

bastard

sweetheart

spinster

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

It tears

The narrator throws it out

It yellows

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

To die

The death of the man who left her at the altar
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"

petrifying

breathless

better

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

In the basement

In the bathroom

In bed

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

A diamond ring

A cake

A wedding dress

A veil
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Love's hate

Miss Havisham

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?

Her wedding shoes

Not only the heart

A vase of flowers

The mirror
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?

To burn

To throw in the Thames

To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

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 market

The speaker's home

The speaker's school

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.

True

False
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?

An old diary

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

The wardrobe

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