Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Blind

Slewed mirrors

Dark green pebbles
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?

Charles Dickens

Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Vladimir Nabokov
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Frozen

Trembling

Fluent

Still
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The red balloons

Her ex-fiance

The wedding cake

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

Her curses

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her own blood

Her wedding gown
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?

misted

shrouded

shattered

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

caw

remember

strangle

stab
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 ______."

bastard

spinster

scoundrel

sweetheart
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

It loses its shape

It tears

The narrator throws it out

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"

petrifying

breathless

worse

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

In front of the mirror

In bed

In the basement

In the bathroom
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?

A vase of flowers

Her wedding shoes

The mirror

Not only the heart
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 is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

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.

False

True
21 Where does this poem take place?

The speaker's school

The speaker's home

The market

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.

False

True
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?

An old diary

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

The wardrobe

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