Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Blind

Slewed mirrors

Red balloons bursting
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Bukowski
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Frozen

Still

Trembling

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

The red balloons

The wedding cake

The lost body
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her curses

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her own blood

Her wedding gown
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"
jerk

bite

snap

become
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 ________."
strangle

caw

remember

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

Around the speaker's neck

In the speaker's eyes

On the back of the speaker's hands
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."
spinster

sweetheart

bastard

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
It loses its shape

It yellows

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

For the man who left her to change his mind

To give birth to a daughter

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

better

breathless

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

In bed

In front of the mirror

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

A veil

A diamond ring

A wedding dress
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

The mirror

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

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar

To throw in the Thames
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed
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 speaker's home

The market

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

The wardrobe

An old diary

A gift from an unknown suitor

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