GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Charles Dickens

1. What is the name of Miss Havisham’s 6. Who is Pip’s tutor in London?

manor?
(A) Harold Pocket
(A) Satis House
(B) Walter Pocket
(B) Lockmont
(C) Herbert Pocket
(C) Larchmont
(D) Matthew Pocket
(D) Satyr House
7. Who is Estella’s father?
2. In what region of England are the
marshes of the novel found? (A) Compeyson

(A) Sussex (B) Magwitch

(B) Wessex (C) Joe

(C) Kent (D) Jaggers

(D) Gloucestershire 8. What action does Jaggers perform

obsessively?
3. How old is Pip when Magwitch returns
to his life? (A) He straightens his necktie.

(A) 9 (B) He adjusts his hair.

(B) 23 (C) He signs his name.

(C) 18 (D) He washes his hands.

(D) 7 9. What is Pip’s reaction to Joe’s visit to

him in London?
4. In what publication was Great
Expectations originally serialized? (A) Embarrassment

(A) Home and Away (B) Joy

(B) The English Almanac (C) Anger

(C) Simple Wisdom (D) Resignation

(D) All the Year Round 10. Who takes credit for Pip’s rise in social
status?
5. To what genre of fiction, defined by its
depiction of a character’s growth from (A) Mrs. Joe
childhood to adulthood, does Great
(B) Joe
Expectations belong?
(C) Pumblechook
(A) Bildungsroman
(D) Biddy
(B) Kunstlerspiegel
11. Who is responsible for the attack on
(C) Mannerism
Mrs. Joe?
(D) Victorian paternalism
(A) Magwitch (C) The smithy

(B) Orlick (D) The churchyard

(C) Compeyson 17. Who is the “pale young gentleman”?

(D) Pip (A) Wemmick

12. For most of the novel, whom does Pip (B) Herbert
suspect of being his secret benefactor?
(C) Jaggers
(A) Jaggers
(D) Startop
(B) Magwitch
18. Whom does Estella marry?
(C) Joe
(A) Startop
(D) Miss Havisham
(B) Pip
13. What name does Wemmick call his
elderly father? (C) Drummle

(A) “Aged Parent” (D) Herbert

(B) “Venerable Ancestor” 19. Who buys Herbert’s way into

business?
(C) “Decrepit Sire”
(A) Pip
(D) “Old Feller”
(B) Miss Havisham
14. Who tells Pip that Compeyson was
Miss Havisham’s fiancé? (C) Drummle

(A) Wemmick (D) Estella

(B) Estella 20. What happens to Compeyson at the

end of the novel?
(C) Herbert
(A) He escapes with the Havisham fortune.
(D) Magwitch
(B) He is shot by the police.
15. What is Herbert’s nickname for Pip?
(C) He is killed by Orlick.
(A) Haydn
(D) He disappears and is presumed drowned.
(B) Handel
21. Where does Estella live when she goes
(C) Mendelssohn abroad?

(D) Salieri (A) France

16. Where does Pip first encounter (B) Spain

Magwitch?
(C) Germany
(A) The river
(D) Boston
(B) Mrs. Joe’s house
22. What was the name of Miss
Havisham’s brother, Compeyson’s first
partner?

(A) Magwitch

(B) Tumbler

(C) Arthur

(D) John

23. What accident befalls Miss Havisham

before her death?

(A) She is thrown from a horse.

(B) She falls from a window.

(C) A table crushes her legs.

(D) She is burned in a fire.

24. What is the source of the Havisham

fortune?

(A) Lumberyards

(B) A cotton mill

(C) A brewery

(D) A noble estate

25. What name does Magwitch use to

hide his identity?

(A) Provis

(B) Clovis

(C) Quo Vadis

(D) Uncle Caveat