Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Blind

Red balloons bursting
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Charles Bukowski

Vladimir Nabokov

Ernest Hemingway

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

Still

Fluent

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

The lost body

Her ex-fiance

The red balloons
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her curses

Her wedding gown

Her own blood

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

bite

jerk

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

misted

shrouded

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

caw

stab

strangle
9 Where do ropes appear?
In the speaker's eyes

Around the neck of the lost body

Around the speaker's neck

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

bastard

sweetheart

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

It loses its shape

It tears

It yellows
12 What does the narrator pray for?
The death of the man who left her at the altar

To give birth to a daughter

To die

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 the basement

In front of the mirror

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

A wedding dress

A cake

A diamond ring
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Love's hate

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Miss Havisham
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 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 obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province
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 speaker's home

Pip's home

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.
True

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

A gift from an unknown suitor

Her front door

The wardrobe

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