Great Expectations Quizzes

Great Expectations Quiz 1

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

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.

From Joe Gargery.
2 Who is the narrator of Great Expectations?
An unknown omnipotent narrator who uses the third person.

Pip

An old sailor who heard the story.

Joe Gargery
3 Mrs. Joe can best be described as:
Strange but a hard worker

Quiet and shy

Kind and generous

Nagging and temperamental
4 Pip's relationship with Joe for much of the book can best described as:
A friendly acquaintance

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

A father/son relationship

An friendship, but some of the time unequal as Pip feels embarrassed by Joe
5 The convict who Pip feeds at the beginning of the novel reappears later with a name. That name is:
Wemmick

Jaggers

Magwitch

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

Friendly

Agonizing.

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

Pumblechook

Mrs. Joe

Biddy
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.

Miss Havisham gives Pip her inheritance.

He receives notification from Mr. Jaggers that he is to go to London.
9 Throughout the novel, the marshes, for Pip, have represented his:
great expectations.

love for Biddy.

lowly background.

love for Estella.
10 Pip becomes roommates with Herbert in London. Pip had met Herbert once before, in:
Miss Havisham's garden, where they fought.

a coach on the way to London.

the marshes with the convicts.

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

A man's home is his castle.

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

It's better to burn out then to fade away.
12 When Joe visits Pip in London, the meal they had together can best be described as:
just like old times.

grandiose, yet delicious.

stilted and uncomfortable.

jolly and joyful.
13 It is apparent by midway through the book that Miss Havisham raised Estella to:
be with Pip.

become a housewife and mother.

have no heart and break the hearts of men.

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 she was too pretty to ever be happy with him.

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

she's too career oriented.

she's much too short.
15 The final words of Miss. Joe Gargery apparently indicated that:
that Orlick had crippled her.

she had a large inheritance herself.

that she was Pip's real mother.

she was apologizing for her behavior toward Pip and Joe.
16 The 'great expectation' that Pip expected for his 21st birthday was:
Miss Havisham would give him more money.

He would finally get a job.

Estella would agree to marry him.

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 wrestled once in the Miss Havisham's garden.

Pip despised even before he started seeing Estella.

Pip looks up to and admires.
19 Why did Magwitch work all those years only to send the money to Pip?
because Pip was his sister's son.

because Pip was his son.

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

because Magwitch loved Miss Havisham.
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:
He would be arrested immediately in the police found him.

Miss Havisham will have him hung.

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.

Miss Havisham's lover.

Pip's father.

Estella's father.
23 According to Magwitch, why did Compeyson get a lesser sentence than Magwitch when they both got into trouble?
Because Compeyson did not actually do the crime.

Only because Compeyson was a gentleman.

Because Compeyson was related to Miss Havisham.

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

Compeyson.

the prisoners he befriends at Newgate.

Jaggers.
25 Ironically, after Miss Havisham catches on fire, the doctors lay her:
in her bed that she has never slept in.

on her table where the wedding cake is.

on a gurney kept close for just such an occasion.

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

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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