Great Expectations Quizzes

Great Expectations Quiz 1

1 Where did Pip get his name?
It was how he pronounced his last name when he was a child.

From Joe Gargery.

It was the county where he was from.

From his sister and caregiver Mrs. Joe Gargery who thought he was an irritating pip-squeak.
2 Who is the narrator of Great Expectations?
Joe Gargery

Pip

An old sailor who heard the story.

An unknown omnipotent narrator who uses the third person.
3 Mrs. Joe can best be described as:
Nagging and temperamental

Quiet and shy

Strange but a hard worker

Kind and generous
4 Pip's relationship with Joe for much of the book can best described as:
A friendship, but much of the time unequal as Pip thinks he is superior

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

A father/son relationship

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:
Yummy.

Agonizing.

Friendly

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

Joe

Mrs. Joe

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

Miss Havisham gives Pip her inheritance.

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

Miss Havisham requests that he comes and plays at her mansion.
9 Throughout the novel, the marshes, for Pip, have represented his:
love for Biddy.

lowly background.

love for Estella.

great expectations.
10 Pip becomes roommates with Herbert in London. Pip had met Herbert once before, in:
a coach on the way to London.

the town pub.

Miss Havisham's garden, where they fought.

the marshes with the convicts.
11 Wemmick would probably agree most with this cliché'.
A man's home is his castle.

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

There's no time like the present.

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:
stilted and uncomfortable.

grandiose, yet delicious.

jolly and joyful.

just like old times.
13 It is apparent by midway through the book that Miss Havisham raised Estella to:
be with Pip.

clean the house.

have no heart and break the hearts of men.

become a housewife and mother.
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.

that Orlick had crippled her.

she was apologizing for her behavior toward Pip and Joe.

she had a large inheritance herself.
16 The 'great expectation' that Pip expected for his 21st birthday was:
Miss Havisham would give him more money.

His benefactor would make her/himself known to Pip.

He would finally get a job.

Estella would agree to marry him.
17 How does Pip help Herbert?
He leaves Herbert his inheritance.

He gets Herbert out of jail.

He secretly sets up a job for him.

He gives Herbert some cash.
18 At one point, Estella is being courted by Drummle, who:
Pip wrestled once in the Miss Havisham's garden.

Pip despised even before he started seeing Estella.

Pip looks up to and admires.

was Pip's best friend in the Finches of the Grove.
19 Why did Magwitch work all those years only to send the money to Pip?
because Magwitch loved Miss Havisham.

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

because Pip was his sister's son.

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

warm and loving.

Pip already knew.

cold and disgusted.
21 Magwitch needs to hide while in London because:
Jaggers wants to kill him.

He would be arrested immediately in the police found him.

Pip doesn't want people to see him.

Miss Havisham will have him hung.
22 The half crazed man named Arthur who worked with Compeyson before Magwitch was actually:
Pip's father.

Estella's father.

Miss Havisham's lover.

Miss Havisham's brother.
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 did not actually do the crime.

Because Jaggers was Compeyson's lawyer.

Because Compeyson was related to Miss Havisham.
24 Wemmick finds out that Pip is being watched by:
Magwitch.

Compeyson.

Jaggers.

the prisoners he befriends at Newgate.
25 Ironically, after Miss Havisham catches on fire, the doctors lay her:
in her bed that she has never slept in.

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

on a gurney kept close for just such an occasion.

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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