Quiz ----- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

1. Pip is helped with his education at a young age by:

◯ Biddy
◯ Joe
◯ Mrs. Joe
◯ Pumblechook
2. The convict who Pip feeds at the beginning of the novel reappears later with a name. That name is:
◯ Mr. Wopsle
◯ Wemmick
◯ Jaggers
◯ Magwitch
3. 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
4. Mrs. Joe can best be described as:
◯ Quiet and shy
◯ Nagging and temperamental
◯ Kind and generous
◯ Strange but a hard worker

5. Pip is first blessed with great expectations when:

◯ 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.
◯ Joe gives him a job in the forge.

6. 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.

7. Wemmick would probably agree most

◯ Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
◯ A man's home is his castle.
◯ There's no time like the present.
◯ It's better to burn out then to fade away.

8. When Joe visits Pip in London, the meal they had together can best be described as:
◯ stilted and uncomfortable.
◯ jolly and joyful.
◯ just like old times.
◯ grandiose, yet delicious.

9. It is apparent by midway through the book that Miss Havisham raised Estella to:
◯ have no heart and break the hearts of men.
◯ become a housewife and mother.
◯ clean the house.
◯ be with Pip.

10. How does Pip help Herbert?

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◯ He gives Herbert some cash.
◯ He secretly sets up a job for him.
◯ He gets Herbert out of jail.
◯ He leaves Herbert his inheritance.

11. At one point, Estella is being courted by Drummle, who:

◯ Pip looks up to and admires.
◯ was Pip's best friend in the Finches of the Grove.
◯ Pip despised even before he started seeing Estella.
◯ Pip wrestled once in the Miss Havisham's garden.

12. Why did Magwitch work all those years only to send the money to Pip?
◯ because Magwitch loved Miss Havisham.
◯ because Pip was his sister's son.
◯ because Pip fed him wittles many years before when he was an escaped convict.
◯ because Pip was his son.

13. Pip's reaction to Magwitch when the convict presents himself as Pip's benefactor is:
◯ Pip already knew.
◯ worried and stressed.
◯ cold and disgusted.
◯ warm and loving.

14. Magwitch needs to hide while in London

◯ Pip doesn't want people to see him.
◯ Miss Havisham will have him hung.
◯ Jaggers wants to kill him.
◯ He would be arrested immediately in the police found him.

15. The half crazed man named Arthur who worked with Compeyson before Magwitch was actually:
◯ Miss Havisham's lover.
◯ Estella's father.
◯ Miss Havisham's brother.
◯ Pip's father.

16. 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 Jaggers was Compeyson's lawyer.
◯ Because Compeyson did not actually do the crime.

17. Wemmick finds out that Pip is being watched by:

◯ Compeyson.
◯ Jaggers.
◯ Magwitch.
◯ the prisoners he befriends at Newgate.

18. Ironically, after Miss Havisham catches on fire, the doctors lay her:
◯ in her garden where she had not been for twenty years.
◯ on her table where the wedding cake is.
◯ on a gurney kept close for just such an occasion.
◯ in her bed that she has never slept in.
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