Activities for Studying Great Expectations

Great Expectations: Activity 3

1-Where did Pip get his name?

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.

It was the county where he was from.

2- Who is the narrator of Great Expectations?

Joe Gargery

An unknown omnipotent narrator who uses the third person.

Pip

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 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

Mr. Wopsle

Magwitch

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

Friendly

Yummy.

Agonizing.

Delightful.

7- Pip is helped with his education at a young age by:

Biddy

Mrs. Joe

Pumblechook

Joe

8- Pip is first blessed with great expectations when:

Miss Havisham gives Pip her inheritance.

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.

9- Throughout the novel, the marshes, for Pip, have represented his:

lowly background.

great expectations.

love for Biddy.

 love for Estella.

10- 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.

11- 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.

12- It is apparent by midway through the book that Miss Havisham raised Estella to:

become a housewife and mother.

clean the house.

have no heart and break the hearts of men.

be with Pip.

13-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 much too short.

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.

14- 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.

15- How does Pip help Herbert?

He leaves Herbert his inheritance.

He gives Herbert some cash.

He gets Herbert out of jail.

He secretly sets up a job for him.

16- At one point, Estella is being courted by Drummle, who:

Pip looks up to and admires.

Pip wrestled once in the Miss Havisham's garden.

was Pip's best friend in the Finches of the Grove.

Pip despised even before he started seeing Estella.

17- 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 Pip was his sister's son.

because Magwitch loved Miss Havisham.

because Pip was his son.

18- Pip's reaction to Magwitch when the convict presents himself as Pip's benefactor
is:

Pip already knew.

cold and disgusted.

warm and loving.

 worried and stressed.

19- Magwitch needs to hide while in London because:

He would be arrested immediately in the police found him.

Pip doesn't want people to see him.

Miss Havisham will have him hung.

Jaggers wants to kill him.

20- The half crazed man named Arthur who worked with Compeyson before
Magwitch was actually:

Pip's father.

Estella's father.

Miss Havisham's brother.

Miss Havisham's lover.

21- 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 Jaggers was Compeyson's lawyer.

Because Compeyson did not actually do the crime.

22- Wemmick finds out that Pip is being watched by:

Magwitch.

the prisoners he befriends at Newgate.

Jaggers.

Compeyson.

23- Ironically, after Miss Havisham catches on fire, the doctors lay her:

on a gurney kept close for just such an occasion.

on her table where the wedding cake is.

in her bed that she has never slept in.

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