Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Dark green pebbles

Red balloons bursting

Slewed mirrors

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?

Frozen

Still

Fluent

Trembling
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The lost body

The red balloons

The wedding cake

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

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her wedding gown

Her curses

Her own blood
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"

bite

jerk

become

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 ________."

caw

strangle

remember

stab
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the neck of the lost body

On the back of the speaker's hands

In the speaker's eyes

Around the speaker's neck
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."

bastard

scoundrel

sweetheart

spinster
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?

To die

The death of the man who left her at the altar

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

breathless

better

worse

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

In bed

In the bathroom

In the basement

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

A veil

A cake

A diamond ring

A wedding dress
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Love's hate

Miss Havisham

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

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

The mirror

Not only the heart

Her wedding shoes

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

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar

To throw in the Thames

To burn
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

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.

True

False
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.

False

True
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

The wardrobe

Her front door

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