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?

Charles Dickens

Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Vladimir Nabokov
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Frozen

Still

Trembling

Fluent
4 What does the narrator stab at?

Her ex-fiance

The lost body

The red balloons

The wedding cake
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"

Her own blood

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her curses

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

bite

jerk

snap

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

shattered

shrouded

full-length

misted
8 Fill in the blank: "I stink and ________."

stab

remember

caw

strangle
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the neck of the lost body

In the speaker's eyes

Around the speaker's neck

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

bastard

spinster

sweetheart

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

It yellows

The narrator throws it out

It tears

It loses its shape
12 What does the narrator pray for?

To give birth to a daughter

To die

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

worse

breathless

petrifying

better
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 veil

A diamond ring

A cake

A wedding dress
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Love's hate

Miss Havisham
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 throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon

To burn

To accompany her to the altar
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

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.

True

False
21 Where does this poem take place?

The speaker's home

The market

Pip's home

The speaker's school
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.

False

True
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?

Her front door

An old diary

A gift from an unknown suitor

The wardrobe

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