Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Blind

Red balloons bursting

Dark green pebbles

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

Charles Dickens

Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Vladimir Nabokov
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Fluent

Still

Frozen

Trembling
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The lost body

Her ex-fiance

The wedding cake

The red balloons
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"

Her own blood

Her curses

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her wedding gown
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"

become

snap

bite

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

shrouded

misted

shattered

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

stab

remember

strangle

caw
9 Where do ropes appear?

Around the neck of the lost body

In the speaker's eyes

On the back of the speaker's hands

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

bastard

sweetheart

spinster

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?

The narrator throws it out

It tears

It yellows

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

To die

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

better

worse

breathless

petrifying
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 veil

A cake

A diamond ring

A wedding dress
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Miss Havisham

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Love's hate

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

The mirror

Not only the heart

A vase of flowers

Her wedding shoes
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?

To burn

To throw in the Thames

To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon
19 Which of the following is true?

Miss Havisham is on her deathbed

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

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.

True

False
21 Where does this poem take place?

The speaker's home

The speaker's school

The market

Pip'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.

False

True
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?

An old diary

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

The wardrobe

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