Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Red balloons bursting

Slewed mirrors

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

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski

Vladimir Nabokov
3 How does the narrator describe her tongue?
Trembling

Fluent

Frozen

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

The red balloons

Her ex-fiance

The wedding cake
5 What does the speaker describe as "puce?"
Her wedding gown

Her ex-fiance's face in her dreams

Her curses

Her own blood
6 "...then down till I suddenly ___ awake"
bite

become

jerk

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

full-length

shrouded

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

remember

strangle

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

bastard

sweetheart

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
It yellows

It loses its shape

It tears

The narrator throws it out
12 What does the narrator pray for?
The death of the man who left her at the altar

For the man who left her to change his mind

To die

To give birth to a daughter
13 "Some nights _____, the lost body over me"
better

petrifying

worse

breathless
14 Where does the narrator spend "whole days"?
In front of the mirror

In the bathroom

In bed

In the basement
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?
Love's hate

Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Miss Havisham

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
The mirror

A vase of flowers

Not only the heart

Her wedding shoes
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To throw in the Thames

To burn

To accompany her to the altar

For a honeymoon
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

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 market

The speaker'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?
An old diary

Her front door

The wardrobe

A gift from an unknown suitor

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