Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Red balloons bursting

Dark green pebbles

Blind
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Bukowski
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Still

Frozen

Fluent

Trembling
4 What does the narrator stab at?

Her ex-fiance

The red balloons

The wedding cake

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

Her curses

Her own blood

Her wedding gown

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

become

snap

jerk

bite
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 ________."

stab

caw

remember

strangle
9 Where do ropes appear?

On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the neck of the lost body

Around the speaker's neck

In the speaker's eyes
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."

scoundrel

spinster

sweetheart

bastard
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

The narrator throws it out

It yellows

It loses its shape

It tears
12 What does the narrator pray for?

To give birth to a daughter

The death of the man who left her at the altar

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

petrifying

worse

breathless

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

In front of the mirror

In bed

In the bathroom

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

A cake

A veil

A diamond ring

A wedding dress
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Miss Havisham

Love's hate

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

A vase of flowers

The mirror

Not only the heart

Her wedding shoes
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 does not leave her home

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed
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?

Pip's home

The speaker's school

The speaker's home

The market
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?

A gift from an unknown suitor

An old diary

Her front door

The wardrobe

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