Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Blind

Red balloons bursting
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Vladimir Nabokov

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

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

Frozen

Still

Trembling
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The lost body

The wedding cake

The red balloons

Her ex-fiance
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her own blood

Her curses

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

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

jerk

bite

become
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 ________."
strangle

stab

remember

caw
9 Where do ropes appear?
In the speaker's eyes

Around the speaker's neck

Around the neck of the lost body

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

bastard

scoundrel

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

It yellows

It loses its shape

It tears
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

better

worse

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

In front of the mirror

In the basement

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

A veil

A cake

A diamond ring
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Love's hate

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Miss Havisham

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

Her wedding shoes

A vase of flowers

Not only the heart
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 obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province
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

The speaker's school

The market

Pip'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.

True

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

An old diary

The wardrobe

A gift from an unknown suitor

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