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?
Charles Bukowski

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Dickens

Ernest Hemingway
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Trembling

Still

Frozen

Fluent
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The red balloons

The lost body

The wedding cake

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

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her own blood

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

snap

jerk

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

shattered

shrouded

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

caw

remember

stab
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 ______."
bastard

sweetheart

scoundrel

spinster
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
It tears

The narrator throws it out

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 die

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

petrifying

worse

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

In bed

In front of the mirror

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

A cake

A wedding dress

A veil
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Love's hate

Miss Havisham

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
The mirror

Not only the heart

A vase of flowers

Her wedding shoes
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To throw in the Thames

To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon

To burn
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband
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 school

The market

Pip's home

The speaker's home
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?
The wardrobe

An old diary

A gift from an unknown suitor

Her front door

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