Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Blind

Red balloons bursting

Dark green pebbles
2 Who wrote the novel that this poem is based upon?

Vladimir Nabokov

Charles Bukowski

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?

Frozen

Still

Trembling

Fluent
4 What does the narrator stab at?

The red balloons

The lost body

Her ex-fiance

The wedding cake
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

jerk

bite

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

shattered

misted

full-length

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

strangle

caw

stab

remember
9 Where do ropes appear?

In the speaker's eyes

On the back of the speaker's hands

Around the neck of the lost body

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

spinster

bastard

scoundrel

sweetheart
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?

To die

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

breathless

better

worse

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

In front of the mirror

In the basement

In the bathroom

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

A veil

A diamond ring

A cake

A wedding dress
16 What waits behind the white veil?

Miss Havisham

Love's hate

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

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

Not only the heart

Her wedding shoes

A vase of flowers

The mirror
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?

To accompany her to the altar

To burn

To throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon
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.

False

True
21 Where does this poem take place?

The market

The speaker's school

The speaker's home

Pip's home
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

An old diary

The wardrobe

A gift from an unknown suitor

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