Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
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by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations Quiz 1

1. Where did Pip get his name?

  • It was the county where he was from.
  • It was how he pronounced his last name when he was a child.
  • From his sister and caregiver Mrs. Joe Gargery who thought he was an irritating pip-squeak.
  • From Joe Gargery.

2. Who is the narrator of Great Expectations?

  • Pip
  • Joe Gargery
  • An unknown omnipotent narrator who uses the third person.
  • An old sailor who heard the story.

3. Mrs. Joe can best be described as:

  • Nagging and temperamental
  • Kind and generous
  • Strange but a hard worker
  • Quiet and shy

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
  • An friendship, but some of the time unequal as Pip feels embarrassed by Joe
  • A father/son relationship

5. The convict who Pip feeds at the beginning of the novel reappears later with a name. That name is:

  • Jaggers
  • Wemmick
  • Magwitch
  • Mr. Wopsle

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

  • Agonizing.
  • Delightful.
  • Friendly
  • Yummy.

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

  • Biddy
  • Pumblechook
  • Joe
  • Mrs. Joe

8. Pip is first blessed with great expectations when:

  • Miss Havisham requests that he comes and plays at her mansion.
  • He receives notification from Mr. Jaggers that he is to go to London.
  • Joe gives him a job in the forge.
  • Miss Havisham gives Pip her inheritance.

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.
  • the marshes with the convicts.
  • the town pub.
  • a coach on the way to London.

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