Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Dark green pebbles

Red balloons bursting

Blind

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

Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Still

Trembling

Frozen

Fluent
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The wedding cake

The red balloons

The lost body

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

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her own blood

Her curses

Her wedding gown
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

shrouded

full-length

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

strangle

caw

remember

stab
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the speaker's neck

Around the neck of the lost body

On the back of the speaker's hands

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

sweetheart

scoundrel

bastard

spinster
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

The narrator throws it out

It tears

It loses its shape

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

For the man who left her to change his mind

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

better

petrifying

worse

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

In the basement

In the bathroom

In bed

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

A cake

A wedding dress

A veil

A diamond ring
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Miss Havisham

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Love's hate

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 throw in the Thames

To burn

For a honeymoon

To accompany her to the altar
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province
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?

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.

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?

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

The wardrobe

An old diary

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