Havisham Quizzes

Havisham Quiz

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

Slewed mirrors

Red balloons bursting

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

Charles Dickens

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frozen

Still

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

Her ex-fiance

The red balloons

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

Her own blood

Her curses

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

jerk

become

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

shrouded

shattered

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

caw

strangle

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

In the speaker's eyes

Around the neck of the lost body

On the back of the speaker's hands
10 Fill in the blank: "Beloved sweetheart ______."
sweetheart

spinster

bastard

scoundrel
11 How does the wedding dress show its age?
The narrator throws it out

It loses its shape

It yellows

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"
worse

better

breathless

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

In the bathroom

In front of the mirror

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

A wedding dress

A diamond ring

A veil
16 What waits behind the white veil?
Paradoxically, Miss Havisham's ex-fiance

Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter

Love's hate

Miss Havisham
17 What does the speaker say breaks in the final line?
Her wedding shoes

Not only the heart

The mirror

A vase of flowers
18 Why does the speaker want a male corpse?
To accompany her to the altar

To throw in the Thames

For a honeymoon

To burn
19 Which of the following is true?
Miss Havisham obsesses over finding a new husband

Miss Havisham does not leave her home

Miss Havisham plans to move to a different province

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?
The speaker's school

Pip's home

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.
True

False
24 The speaker stabs at the red balloon.
False

True
25 What does the narrator open in this poem?
The wardrobe

An old diary

Her front door

A gift from an unknown suitor

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