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

Ernest Hemingway

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Trembling

Fluent

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

The wedding cake

Her ex-fiance

The lost body
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her own blood

Her curses

Her wedding gown

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

bite

jerk

snap
7 Which of the following words or phrases does the speaker use to describe her mirror?
misted

shattered

shrouded

full-length
8 Fill in the blank: "I stink and ________."
stab

strangle

remember

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

On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the speaker's neck

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

sweetheart

bastard

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

It loses its shape

It yellows

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

To die

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

better

breathless

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

In the bathroom

In front of the mirror

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

A veil

A diamond ring

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

Miss Havisham

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

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

Not only the heart

The mirror

Her wedding shoes
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon

To burn

To throw in the Thames
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

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.

True

False
21 Where does this poem take place?
The speaker's home

The market

The speaker's school

Pip's home
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?
The wardrobe

A gift from an unknown suitor

An old diary

Her front door

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