Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Dark green pebbles

Blind

Slewed mirrors
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?

Vladimir Nabokov

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

Charles Bukowski
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Frozen

Fluent

Still

Trembling
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The lost body

The red balloons

Her ex-fiance

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

Her own blood

Her wedding gown

Her curses

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

bite

become

snap

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 ________."

stab

strangle

caw

remember
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the speaker's neck

Around the neck of the lost body

In the speaker's eyes

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

bastard

sweetheart

spinster

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

It loses its shape

It yellows

The narrator throws it out

It tears
12 What does the narrator pray for?

To die

For the man who left her to change his mind

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"

petrifying

worse

better

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

In the bathroom

In the basement

In front of the mirror

In bed
15 Which of the following images does not appear in this poem?

A diamond ring

A veil

A wedding dress

A cake
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?

Not only the heart

A vase of flowers

The mirror

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

To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon

To throw in the Thames

To burn
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed
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 market

Pip's home

The speaker'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.

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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