Great Expectations Quizzes

Great Expectations Quiz 1

1 Where did Pip get his name?
It was the county where he was from.

From Joe Gargery.

From his sister and caregiver Mrs. Joe Gargery who thought he was an irritating pip-squeak.

It was how he pronounced his last name when he was a child.
2 Who is the narrator of Great Expectations?
Joe Gargery

Pip

An unknown omnipotent narrator who uses the third person.

An old sailor who heard the story.
3 Mrs. Joe can best be described as:
Strange but a hard worker

Quiet and shy

Nagging and temperamental

Kind and generous
4 Pip's relationship with Joe for much of the book can best described as:
A father/son relationship

An friendship, but some of the time unequal as Pip feels embarrassed by Joe

A friendship, but much of the time unequal as Pip thinks he is superior

A friendly acquaintance
5 The convict who Pip feeds at the beginning of the novel reappears later with a name. That name is:
Jaggers

Wemmick

Magwitch

Mr. Wopsle
6 For Pip, dinner with Mrs. Joe was always:
Agonizing.

Delightful.

Yummy.

Friendly
7 Pip is helped with his education at a young age by:
Mrs. Joe

Biddy

Pumblechook

Joe
8 Pip is first blessed with great expectations when:
Joe gives him a job in the forge.

Miss Havisham requests that he comes and plays at her mansion.

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 Estella.

love for Biddy.

lowly background.

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

the marshes with the convicts.

a coach on the way to London.

Miss Havisham's garden, where they fought.
11 Wemmick would probably agree most with this cliché'.
There's no time like the present.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you.

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

A man's home is his castle.
12 When Joe visits Pip in London, the meal they had together can best be described as:
stilted and uncomfortable.

jolly and joyful.

grandiose, yet delicious.

just like old times.
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.

clean the house.

be with Pip.
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:
she's too career oriented.

that any time he spends with her he himself is constantly miserable.

that she was too pretty to ever be happy with him.

she's much too short.
15 The final words of Miss. Joe Gargery apparently indicated that:
she had a large inheritance herself.

that she was Pip's real mother.

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:
He would finally get a job.

Estella would agree to marry him.

His benefactor would make her/himself known to Pip.

Miss Havisham would give him more money.
17 How does Pip help Herbert?
He gets Herbert out of jail.

He gives Herbert some cash.

He leaves Herbert his inheritance.

He secretly sets up a job for him.
18 At one point, Estella is being courted by Drummle, who:
was Pip's best friend in the Finches of the Grove.

Pip wrestled once in the Miss Havisham's garden.

Pip looks up to and admires.

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 was his son.

because Pip fed him wittles many years before when he was an escaped convict.

because Pip was his sister's son.

because Magwitch loved Miss Havisham.
20 Pip's reaction to Magwitch when the convict presents himself as Pip's benefactor is:
cold and disgusted.

Pip already knew.

warm and loving.

worried and stressed.
21 Magwitch needs to hide while in London because:
Miss Havisham will have him hung.

He would be arrested immediately in the police found him.

Pip doesn't want people to see him.

Jaggers wants to kill him.
22 The half crazed man named Arthur who worked with Compeyson before Magwitch was actually:
Miss Havisham's brother.

Pip's father.

Estella's father.

Miss Havisham's lover.
23 According to Magwitch, why did Compeyson get a lesser sentence than Magwitch when they both got into trouble?
Because Compeyson was related to Miss Havisham.

Only because Compeyson was a gentleman.

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:
in her bed that she has never slept in.

on a gurney kept close for just such an occasion.

on her table where the wedding cake is.

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

Kindly answer the following questions if possible. Thanks a lot

2) The story opens with the narrator, Pip, who introduces himself and describes an image of himself as a boy, standing alone and crying in a churchyard near some marshes. Young Pip is staring at the gravestones of his parents, who died soon after...

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Who is narrating & how much do you learn about him?

Pip is the narrator as well as the protagonist of the story.

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Why does Pip feel guilty for not being truthful with Joe?

A. Because he knows the truth

Joe is well aware that Pip's treatment of him is inspired by ambition rather than love. Pip wants to get ahead... to be a gentleman.... Joe brings him down. It matters not that they are family, or that they care about...

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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