Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Dark green pebbles

Blind
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?
Frozen

Still

Trembling

Fluent
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The wedding cake

Her ex-fiance

The lost body

The red balloons
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her own blood

Her wedding gown

Her curses
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 ________."
remember

stab

strangle

caw
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 ______."
bastard

spinster

sweetheart

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

It loses its shape

The narrator throws it out

It tears
12 What does the narrator pray for?
To give birth to a daughter

To die

The death of the man who left her at the altar

For the man who left her to change his mind
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"
breathless

worse

better

petrifying
14 Where does the narrator spend "whole days"?
In the bathroom

In bed

In the basement

In front of the mirror
15 Which of the following images does not appear in this poem?
A diamond ring

A cake

A veil

A wedding dress
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?
Her wedding shoes

The mirror

A vase of flowers

Not only the heart
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To burn

To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon

To throw in the Thames
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

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?
The market

The speaker's home

Pip's home

The speaker's school
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

The wardrobe

An old diary

A gift from an unknown suitor

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