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Great Expectations - Test
Multiple Choice - Choose the best answer. ( * = denotes correct answer)
1. Who has raised Pip “by hand”?
a. Orlick
b. Joe
c. Biddy
d. Mrs. Joe *
2. On which holiday does Pip encounter the convict?
a. Halloween
b. Christmas *
c. Easter
d. Fourth of July
3. Why doesn’t Pip know his parents?
a. They left him and his sister alone when he was little.
b. They died before he got the chance. *
c. They were executed for murder
d. They thought Pip was a poor excuse for a boy.
4. What is Joe’s occupation?
a. a Blacksmith *
b. a carpenter
c. a tailor
d. a sheep farmer
5. Who becomes Joe’s apprentice?
a. Pumblechook
b. Estella
c. Pip *
d. Wopsle
6. Who adopted Estella?
a. Miss Havisham *
b. Molly
c. Mrs. Joe
d. Mr. Jaggers
7. Who gives Pip the nickname “Handel”?
a. Wemmick
b. Jaggers
c. Herbert *
d. Miss Havisham
8. What do Pip and Wemmick often do?
a. Drink alcohol together.
b. Gamble
c. Go to the opera.
d. Take walks. *
9. Who does Pip believe is his “unnamed benefactor“?
a. Estella
b. Joe
c. Miss Havisham*
d. Pumblechook
10. Miss Havisham and _________ get badly burned.
a. Pip *
b. Estella
c. Jaggers
d. Compeyson
11. Compeyson was one engaged to __________?
a. Estella
b. Molly
c. Miss Havisham *
d. Clara
12. On Pip first day at Miss Havisham’s house, what game does he partake in?
a. Beggar my Neighbour, a card game *
b. horse shoes
c. chess
d. He sits out and watches Havisham and Estella play the game.
13. Who owns Satis house?
a. Wemmick
b. Mrs. Havisham*
c. Mrs. Joe
d. Clara
14. Which feature of Molly and Estella helps Pip to make the connection between the two?
a. their hair
b. their teeth
c. their eyes *
d. their lips
15. Of the following lists of characters, which list is of all the same person.
a. Uncle Provis/ Magwitch/Abel *
b. Wopsle/ Pumblechook
c. Orlick/Drummle
d. Estella/Clara/biddy
16. Who does Estella marry?
a. Pip
b. Jaggers
c. Wemmick
d. Drummle *
17. What are Pip’s “great expectations”?
a. To become a gentleman *
b. To make a fortune in the diamond industry
c. To become a teacher
d. To marry Biddy and teach Joe how to write.
18. What is the name of Joe and Biddy’s son?
a. Abel
b. John
c. Pip *
d. Compeyson
20. Who is the source of Miss Havisham’s continued distress?
a. Compeyson *
b. Orlick
c. Drummle
d. Jaggers
21. ________ is Jagger’s clerk for his practice.
a. Wemmick *
b. Aged parent
c. Pip
d. Joe
22. Who is Pip’s greatest friend in London?
a. Wemmick
b. Carla
c. Herbert *
d. his gate keeper
23. While in London does Pip ever live by himself?
a. the whole time
b. partially
c. never *
24. Who remains true to Pip throughout the entire book?
a. Jaggers
b. Joe *
c. Wemmick
d. Havisham
25. Which two characters get themselves into debt?
a. Pip and Herbert
b Pip and Joe
c. Joe and Magwitch
d. Pip and Pumblechook
Short Answer
1. Describe the relationship between Molly, Magwitch, Estella, Havisham, and Jaggers.
Estella is Molly and Magwitch’s child, whom Miss Havisham later adopted. Jaggers is the one who arranged the adoption for Mrs. Havisham, because he represented Molly in a case. Jaggers take Molly in as his servant to “break her”.
2. Which ending do you feel is more suitable to the book?
I think the book’s second ending is better for the book because it provides a sense of hope for the reader. Throughout the entire book all these events occur, but in the end everything works out for the best and if there were only the original ending, it would leave the reader just sitting there. It finally gives Pip a conclusion to the Estella chapters of his life he can be satisfied with.
3. Does Wemmick bring his work home with him?
Wemmick’s life inside and outside of the office is completely different. In the office, he is just as stern and strict is Jaggers is, but his home shows a completely different side to him At his home he has a ton of knick-knacks and he even looks after his aged parent.
4. Why does Pip get jealous when Estella visits Satis House without him?
It had turned into a habit for Pip for when Estella wanted to visit Satis House, that he would accompany her along. And so I think, when Estella didn’t ask him to take her to see Miss Havisham, that it put a huge dent in his ego. These visit also were just a time that he could see and be around Estella and he felt privileged because Estella was choosing him to take her to Satis House.
5. Are Joe and Biddy compatible?
Joe and Biddy are very compatible because they are both simple, honest, down to earth people who value the people in their lives that they care about. This is good for each other then because they can give to each other, what one another needs.
6. Explain Joe’s relationship with Pip.
Joe honestly understands a lot of what Pip is going through and he realizes he just needs to let Pip go through this. He lets Pip become who Pip truly is through is own means, and not by how Joe thinks Pip should live. He doesn’t force his opinions onto others.
--Describe the following characters in 5 or less sentences.
7. Pip
Pip is a very observant type of person. He has very honest feelings and he almost always loyal to those he cares about. He is a little misguided sometimes, but that’s what growing up is all about.
8. Joe
Joe is such a good-natured guy. He is easily ashamed when he doesn’t feel he is good enough for Pip. Joe is the strong silent type.
9. Biddy
Biddy has a great amount of insight into how people act and how people just are. She, like Joe, is also very good-natured and has a great maternal instinct.
10. Estella
I always saw the light in Estella shining through when she talked to Pip. As cold and cruel hearted as she was, I don’t ever believe anyone can be inherently evil and what evils they do have can be dealt with.
11. Miss Havisham
Havisham is an old, decrepit, spinster of an old lady who can’t allow the people around her to be happy, because she let someone steal her happiness away from her. She gets her vengeance on Compeyson through Estella and Estella’s relationships with men.
12. Jaggers
Jaggers is a very competitive person who judges people based on their appearance, with out getting to know them first. He values competency and skill.
13. Does Miss Havisham ever let go of her past?
I don’t think she’ll ever let go of what happened to her, but I do think the day she and Pip got caught in the fire had a very big impact on her. It opened her eyes to the truth and she was honestly regretful for the things she had done.
14. Who is able to change Estella (in the second ending)?
Estella marries Drummle and he is verbally, mentally, and physically abusive to her. She realizes the way she was treating people was wrong and I honestly think she felt regret for it.
15. Discuss the idea of unions throughout the book.
The first major example of unions throughout the book is the three marriages that take place: Joe and Biddy, Herbert and Clara, and Wemmick and his significant other. The idea of unions is also seen in the book in the seconding ending when Pip and Estella and reunited for the first time in years at Satis house and talk about what’s happened.
16. Why did Herbert give Pip the nickname of “Handel”?
Herbert gave Pip the nickname “Handel” because there is a song called “The Harmonious Blacksmith” and in the song the blacksmith’s name is Handel. This reminds him of Pip because of his apprenticeship with Joe being a blacksmith.
17. Discuss the positives and negatives of Pip’s great expectations?
The central negative aspect of Pip’s great expectations was the fact that while he is becoming this gentleman, he not doing anything productive. He’s not contributing to anything, not doing anything productive with the time is has or the people with whom he interacts. Pip’s great expectations ultimately bring him back down to earth about the whole Estella situation. What he goes through during his quest to become great teaches him more than he could of learned through anyone else, especially since he has to make his own mistakes and deal with the consequences.
18. Discuss one example of a role reversal in the book.
One example of a role reversal in the book would be the relationship between Pip and Miss Havisham. Throughout the larger portion of the book Miss Havisham had this ability to reduce Pip back into the common boy complete with thick boots. The last time Pip visits Miss Havisham she catches on fire giving us a whole other view on her. She now is the one on her knees begging to Pip and she is the one who presents weakness. She is the one who kisses his hand, not he the one who kisses hers.
19. Where does Herbert’s Clara live?
Clara lives with her father. She has to live with her father because he is sick and isn’t expected to be living much longer.
20. Why do you think Jaggers likes Drummle?
Jaggers is mainly attracted to Drummle because Drummle get what he wants when he wants it, which is very much like the personality of Jagger’s himself. Both have a darker side to them, which you can’t quite place, but you can feel is there. There’s a shadow hanging partially over them, and you don’t know what it’s hiding.
21. Explain a significant scene between Pip and Drummle at Satis house.
Pip and Drummle are both standing in front of the fireplace in order to get warmer when they have this silent battle, while talking. They are both standing near the firing and kept edging each other further and further away from one another with their shoulders while talking about how long they’ve been at Satis house and how long they plan to stay.
22. When Pip gets sick, who is there beside him to watch over him? And how does this person's attitude towards Pip change as Pip begins to get well again?
When Pip gets sick, Joe is there right beside his bed to comfort him and to make sure he is all right. He doesn’t hold any grudges against Pip but as Pip begins to get well again, Joe starts to think of Pip as the “gentlemanly” Pip and not Pip from the forge and begins to call him Sir again.
23. What is the truth about the events that happened to Mrs. Joe that caused to be in the state she was before she passed away?
Everyone thought it was the convict who knocked her out, but Orlick reveals the truth to Pip in the marshes. It was Orlick who knocked her out, because he feels Pip has always been out to get him and prevent him from succeeding.
24. How did Magwitch die?
Magwitch died because he was ill. He got found guilty of coming back to England and although the fact that he lived a crime free life in South Wales, it didn’t change the fact that he was not supposed to come back. He never was executed or anything similar to that, but died from natural causes.
25. Do you think Pip was ever truly in love with Estella?
I have no doubt in my mind that Pip loves Estella, but I don’t honestly think he was ever in love with her. Pip got caught up in the fact that he couldn’t have Estella because of so many conditions and even when those changed it still wouldn’t change the fact that Pip and Estella were not “meant to be together”. It’s easy to want something you can’t have, and I honestly don’t think Pip would have been happy if Estella and he were ever together.