Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Red balloons bursting

Blind
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Charles Bukowski

Charles Dickens

Ernest Hemingway

Vladimir Nabokov
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Still

Trembling

Fluent

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

Her ex-fiance

The red balloons

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

Her own blood

Her curses

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"
become

jerk

bite

snap
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 ________."
stab

strangle

remember

caw
9 Where do ropes appear?
Around the neck of the lost body

Around the speaker's neck

On the back of the speaker's hands

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

sweetheart

spinster

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

It yellows

It loses its shape

The narrator throws it out
12 What does the narrator pray for?
For the man who left her to change his mind

To die

To give birth to a daughter

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

breathless

worse

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

In the basement

In the bathroom

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

A diamond ring

A veil

A cake
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Miss Havisham

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Love's hate
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
Not only the heart

The mirror

Her wedding shoes

A vase of flowers
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
For a honeymoon

To burn

To throw in the Thames

To accompany her to the altar
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 speaker's home

Pip's home

The speaker's school

The market
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.

True

False
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.

False

True
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?
An old diary

The wardrobe

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

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