GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Charles Dickens

1.

Where did Pip get his name?

C.    It was how he pronounced his last name when he was a child.

2.

Who is the narrator of Great Expectations?

A.    Pip

3.

Mrs. Joe can best be described as:

A.    Nagging and temperamental

4.

Pip's relationship with Joe for much of the book can best described as:

C.    A 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:

C.    Magwitch

6.

For Pip, dinner with Mrs. Joe was always:

A.    Agonizing.

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:

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

15.

The final words of Miss. Joe Gargery apparently indicated that:

A.    she was apologizing for her behavior toward Pip and Joe.

16.

The 'great expectation' that Pip expected for his 21st birthday was:

A.    His benefactor would make her/himself known to Pip.

17.

How does Pip help Herbert?

B.    He secretly sets up a job for him.

18.

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

A.    Pip despised even before he started seeing Estella.

19.

Why did Magwitch work all those years only to send the money to Pip?

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

20.

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

B.    cold and disgusted.

21.

Magwitch needs to hide while in London because:

D.    He would be arrested immediately if the police found him.