Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Dark green pebbles

Slewed mirrors

Red balloons bursting
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

Charles Bukowski

Vladimir Nabokov
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Still

Fluent

Trembling

Frozen
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 wedding gown

Her curses

Her own blood

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

jerk

bite

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

misted

shrouded

shattered
8 Fill in the blank: "I stink and ________."
strangle

caw

stab

remember
9 Where do ropes appear?
On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the speaker's neck

In the speaker's eyes

Around the neck of the lost body
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."
spinster

sweetheart

bastard

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
It yellows

The narrator throws it out

It loses its shape

It tears
12 What does the narrator pray for?
For the man who left her to change his mind

The death of the man who left her at the altar

To die

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

worse

petrifying

better
14 Where does the narrator spend "whole days"?
In front of the mirror

In the basement

In the bathroom

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

A wedding dress

A diamond ring

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

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Miss Havisham

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
Her wedding shoes

A vase of flowers

Not only the heart

The mirror
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar

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 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?
A gift from an unknown suitor

The wardrobe

An old diary

Her front door

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