Plot
Pip is told the news about coming into a fortune by...
Mr. Jaggers
Where is Pip in the first chapter of the novel?
the graveyard
Where did Pip get his name?
It was how he pronounced his last name when he was a child.
How much was Charles Dickens paid when he worked at Warren's Blacking Factory at the age of twelve?
a) one pound a week, b) one guinea a week
c) six shillings a week, d) ten shillings a week
c) six shillings a week
After what event(s) did Charles Dickens write Great Expectations?
a) his son was running up gambling debts
b) his daughters married a man he didn't like
c) he recently separated from his wife of 22 years
d) all of the above
d) all of the above
In London, Pip lives with...
Herbert Pocket
In what year and what country is Great Expectations set?
1800s, England
Pip is first blessed with great expectations when...
He receives notification from Mr. Jaggers that he is to go to London.
For which newspaper did Charles Dickens report on Parliamentary debates?
a) Guardian, b) Mirror of Parliament
c) The Independent, d) The Times
Great Expectations was written in what form first?
a) serial
b) book
c) independently
a) serial (meaning that the story was broken in installments and published over a period of time in a journal or newspaper)
Pip intends to get Magwitch out of the country by...
boat
What kind of land is Pip's home at the start of the novel?
flat marshland
Where did Pip first meet Herbert Pocket?
In Miss Havisham's garden, where they fought
Which was Charles Dicken's first novel?
a) David Copperfield, b) Nicholas Nickleby
c) The Pickwick Papers, d) Oliver Twist
How old is Pip, Estella and Herbert at the climax of the novel?
23
Estella turns out to be Magwitch's....
daughter
How does Pip find London?
a) "flat and low and dull"
b) "all coarse and common"
c) "crooked, narrow and dirty"
How does Pip help Herbert?
He secretly sets up a job for him.
With whom did Charles Dickens have a love affair with that ended in 1833?
a) Maria Beadnell, b) Dora Winter
c) Flora Copperfield, d) Jill Smith
a) Maria Beadnell
What other book of Charles Dickens' was written entirely in first person?
a) Nicholas Nickleby
b) David Copperfield
c) Edmond Drood
b) David Copperfield
Pip has little money at the end of the book because...
it was taken away from him by the legal authorities (because it was given to him by an illegally returned convict).
How does Pip describe his home at the end of the novel?
a) "dreary and gray"
b) "beautiful and peaceful"
c) "tolerably coarse"
b) "beautiful and peaceful"
Miss Havisham's brother
What year did Charles Dickens die?
a) 1833, b) 1845
c) 1860, d) 1870
d) 1870
In Charles Dicken's alternate ending for Great Expectations, what happened?
a) Pip and Estella are married, & live in Satis House
b) Pip attends Joe's funeral alone
c) Pip sees Estella, a lonely lady, much later in life
c) Pip sees Estella, a lonely lady, much later in life
Alternate Ending:
"One day, two years after his return from the east, I was in England again—in London, and walking along Piccadilly with little Pip—when a servant came running after me to ask would I step back to a lady in a carriage who wished to speak to me. It was a little pony carriage, which the lady was driving; and the lady and I looked sadly enough on one another. “I am greatly changed, I know, but I thought you would like to shake hands with Estella too, Pip. Lift up that pretty child and let me kiss it!” (She supposed the child, I think, to be my child.) I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham’s teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be."