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

Slewed mirrors

Blind

Red balloons bursting

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

Charles Bukowski

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Dickens

Ernest Hemingway
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Trembling

Fluent

Frozen

Still
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The red balloons

Her ex-fiance

The wedding cake

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

Her own blood

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her wedding gown

Her curses
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"

bite

become

snap

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

shrouded

shattered

misted

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

remember

strangle

caw

stab
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 tears

It loses its shape

It yellows
12 What does the narrator pray for?

The death of the man who left her at the altar

To give birth to a daughter

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

petrifying

worse

better

breathless
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 cake

A wedding dress

A diamond ring

A veil
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Miss Havisham

Love's hate

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

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

Not only the heart

A vase of flowers

The mirror

Her wedding shoes
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?

To throw in the Thames

To accompany her to the altar

To burn

For a honeymoon
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed
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 home

Pip's home

The speaker's school

The market
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.

False

True
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.

True

False
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?

A gift from an unknown suitor

Her front door

The wardrobe

An old diary

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