Great Expectations Quizzes

Great Expectations Quiz 1

1 Where did Pip get his name?
From his sister and caregiver Mrs. Joe Gargery who thought he was an irritating pip-squeak.

From Joe Gargery.

It was the county where he was from.

It was how he pronounced his last name when he was a child.
2 Who is the narrator of Great Expectations?
An unknown omnipotent narrator who uses the third person.

Joe Gargery

An old sailor who heard the story.

Pip
3 Mrs. Joe can best be described as:
Quiet and shy

Strange but a hard worker

Nagging and temperamental

Kind and generous
4 Pip's relationship with Joe for much of the book can best described as:
An friendship, but some of the time unequal as Pip feels embarrassed by Joe

A father/son relationship

A friendly acquaintance

A friendship, but much of the time unequal as Pip thinks he is superior
5 The convict who Pip feeds at the beginning of the novel reappears later with a name. That name is:
Magwitch

Mr. Wopsle

Jaggers

Wemmick
6 For Pip, dinner with Mrs. Joe was always:
Delightful.

Friendly

Yummy.

Agonizing.
7 Pip is helped with his education at a young age by:
Pumblechook

Joe

Biddy

Mrs. Joe
8 Pip is first blessed with great expectations when:
Miss Havisham requests that he comes and plays at her mansion.

Joe gives him a job in the forge.

He receives notification from Mr. Jaggers that he is to go to London.

Miss Havisham gives Pip her inheritance.
9 Throughout the novel, the marshes, for Pip, have represented his:
love for Biddy.

love for Estella.

lowly background.

great expectations.
10 Pip becomes roommates with Herbert in London. Pip had met Herbert once before, in:
the town pub.

Miss Havisham's garden, where they fought.

a coach on the way to London.

the marshes with the convicts.
11 Wemmick would probably agree most with this cliché'.
There's no time like the present.

A man's home is his castle.

It's better to burn out then to fade away.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
12 When Joe visits Pip in London, the meal they had together can best be described as:
just like old times.

stilted and uncomfortable.

jolly and joyful.

grandiose, yet delicious.
13 It is apparent by midway through the book that Miss Havisham raised Estella to:
become a housewife and mother.

have no heart and break the hearts of men.

be with Pip.

clean the house.
14 While living in London, Pip believes that he belongs with Estella and that they would be blissfully happy if they married. At the same time, however, Pip admits to himself:
that any time he spends with her he himself is constantly miserable.

she's too career oriented.

she's much too short.

that she was too pretty to ever be happy with him.
15 The final words of Miss. Joe Gargery apparently indicated that:
that she was Pip's real mother.

she had a large inheritance herself.

she was apologizing for her behavior toward Pip and Joe.

that Orlick had crippled her.
16 The 'great expectation' that Pip expected for his 21st birthday was:
Miss Havisham would give him more money.

Estella would agree to marry him.

He would finally get a job.

His benefactor would make her/himself known to Pip.
17 How does Pip help Herbert?
He gives Herbert some cash.

He secretly sets up a job for him.

He leaves Herbert his inheritance.

He gets Herbert out of jail.
18 At one point, Estella is being courted by Drummle, who:
was Pip's best friend in the Finches of the Grove.

Pip looks up to and admires.

Pip wrestled once in the Miss Havisham's garden.

Pip despised even before he started seeing Estella.
19 Why did Magwitch work all those years only to send the money to Pip?
because Pip fed him wittles many years before when he was an escaped convict.

because Magwitch loved Miss Havisham.

because Pip was his son.

because Pip was his sister's son.
20 Pip's reaction to Magwitch when the convict presents himself as Pip's benefactor is:
worried and stressed.

warm and loving.

cold and disgusted.

Pip already knew.
21 Magwitch needs to hide while in London because:
Miss Havisham will have him hung.

Jaggers wants to kill him.

He would be arrested immediately in the police found him.

Pip doesn't want people to see him.
22 The half crazed man named Arthur who worked with Compeyson before Magwitch was actually:
Miss Havisham's brother.

Pip's father.

Miss Havisham's lover.

Estella's father.
23 According to Magwitch, why did Compeyson get a lesser sentence than Magwitch when they both got into trouble?
Only because Compeyson was a gentleman.

Because Compeyson was related to Miss Havisham.

Because Compeyson did not actually do the crime.

Because Jaggers was Compeyson's lawyer.
24 Wemmick finds out that Pip is being watched by:
Magwitch.

Jaggers.

the prisoners he befriends at Newgate.

Compeyson.
25 Ironically, after Miss Havisham catches on fire, the doctors lay her:
on a gurney kept close for just such an occasion.

in her bed that she has never slept in.

in her garden where she had not been for twenty years.

on her table where the wedding cake is.

Briefly explain how the convict ended up in jail at the time when Pip met him on the marshes?

The convict, who'd escaped from the ship, was caught in the marshes while fighting with another convict. Both men were taken back to the prison ship.

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discuss pip as both a narrator and a character, how are different aspects of his personality revealed by his telling of his story?

Great Expectations is really a coming of age story. It is essentially a bildungsroman where we watch Pip develop from boy to a man. As protagonist and narrator we see first hand how Pip changes. There are two Pips to observe through his journey....

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Great Expectations, Paper 1, English Language

Lines 13-21 in which chapter of the novel, Great Expectations?

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