Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Dark green pebbles

Blind

Slewed mirrors
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?
Ernest Hemingway

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Bukowski

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

Fluent

Frozen

Still
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 own blood

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her curses

Her wedding gown
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?
shrouded

full-length

misted

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

stab

strangle

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

In the speaker's eyes

Around the neck of the lost body

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

bastard

scoundrel

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

It tears

The narrator throws it out

It loses its shape
12 What does the narrator pray for?
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

To die
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"
better

petrifying

worse

breathless
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 cake

A wedding dress

A diamond ring

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

Miss Havisham

Love's hate

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
Not only the heart

A vase of flowers

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 plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

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 school

Pip's home

The market

The speaker'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.

True

False
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.

True

False
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?
A gift from an unknown suitor

Her front door

An old diary

The wardrobe

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