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

Vladimir Nabokov

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Fluent

Trembling

Still

Frozen
4 What does the narrator stab at?
The lost body

The wedding cake

The red balloons

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

Her wedding gown

Her curses

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

become

jerk

bite
7 Which of the following words or phrases does the speaker use to describe her mirror?
misted

shattered

shrouded

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

stab

remember

caw
9 Where do ropes appear?
Around the speaker's neck

In the speaker's eyes

On the back of the speaker's hands

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

scoundrel

bastard

sweetheart
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?
To die

For the man who left her to change his mind

To give birth to a daughter

The death of the man who left her at the altar
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"
petrifying

worse

breathless

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

In bed

In front of the mirror

In the bathroom
15 Which of the following images does not appear in this poem?
A cake

A diamond ring

A wedding dress

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

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Miss Havisham
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
A vase of flowers

Her wedding shoes

Not only the heart

The mirror
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon

To burn

To throw in the Thames
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 market

The speaker's home

The speaker's school
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.
False

True
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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