Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Slewed mirrors

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

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski

Charles Dickens
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Still

Fluent

Frozen

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

The wedding cake

The lost body

The red balloons
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

snap

become

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

shrouded

misted

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

strangle

caw

stab
9 Where do ropes appear?
Around the speaker's neck

Around the neck of the lost body

On the back of the speaker's hands

In the speaker's eyes
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."
scoundrel

spinster

bastard

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

It tears

It yellows

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

For the man who left her to change his mind

The death of the man who left her at the altar

To give birth to a daughter
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"
petrifying

breathless

better

worse
14 Where does the narrator spend "whole days"?
In front of the mirror

In bed

In the basement

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

A diamond ring

A wedding dress

A veil
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Miss Havisham

Love's hate
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
A vase of flowers

The mirror

Not only the heart

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

For a honeymoon

To throw in the Thames

To accompany her to the altar
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

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?
Pip's home

The speaker's home

The speaker's school

The market
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.
True

False
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

A gift from an unknown suitor

The wardrobe

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