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| What is the name of Pip's mother? | Georgiana |
| Who does Pip fall in love with? | Estella |
| What does Pip's best friend call him? | He was called Handel because his companion felt that Philip sounded like "a fat schoolboy's name". Handel also composed a piece about a blacksmith, and since Pip was apprenticed to a blacksmith, the name Handel was deemed appropriate. |
| Who is Pip's companion? | Herbert |
| Who jilted Ms. Havisham at the altar? | Compeyson is a complete scoundrel and was convicted for fraud. |
| Abel Magwitch made his fortune in which field? | sheep |
| Who marries Estella? | This marriage turns out a disaster. Pip was very distressed that Estella chose Bentley Drummle of all people, who is a complete imbecile with lots of money. |
| Who tries to kill Pip? | Orlick |
| At what time did Miss Havisham stop all the clocks? | Miss Havisham stopped all the clocks at 8:40. She was dressing for her wedding when, at 8:40, she received a letter from her groom who was not coming to marry her. |
| Who was Pip's new guardian when he left to be a gentleman? | Mr. Jaggers |
| What did Biddy teach Joe that he wanted to impress Pip with? | While Pip was off learning to be a gentleman, Biddy continued Joe's education. While visiting Pip when he was sick, Joe proceeded to write Biddy a letter. |
| What injury to his hands did Pip have? | Miss Havisham got caught of fire and Pip put the fire out, saving her. But in the process he burned his hands. She ended up dying from her injuries. |
| What does Herbert, Pip's loyal friend, continuously call his female companion, Clara? | Ever since Clara was introduced in the middle of the book he referred to her as "dear little thing." |
| Who is Estella's birth mother? | Molly was Mr. Jaggers maid/housekeeper. The short of it was Molly murdered someone and Mr. Jaggers got her off but gave her toddler to Miss Havisham to raise since she was left at the alter and wanted to love someone. |
| Whose "chrisen'd" name was Abel? | Though this gentleman has many names such as Magwitch and Provis, his birth name is Abel. |
| What was Mr. Jaggers profession? | lawyer |
| What was the name of the boat that captured Provis when Pip and friends were trying to sneak him away? | The ship Hamburg is the ship that captured Pip's benefactor, Provis. |
| Who was the one who struck Mrs. Joe, Pip's sister, eventually ending her life? | Drummle. |
| Estella's marriage was horrible and full of | "I had heard of her leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness." ~ Pip |
| Who did Mr. Jagger's refer to as "the spider?" | While having some of the boys over to his house, Mr. Jaggers refereed to Drummle as "the spider." He said he liked the look of the boy but not to trust him. |
| Mrs. Joe almost always wore a what? | "She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front that was stuck full of pins and needles." |
| What is Pip's real name? | Phillip Pirrip |
| What is Joe's occupation? | Blacksmith. |
| What is the name of the convict Pip gives food to on the marshes? | Magwitch. |
| Magwitch is what relation to Estella? | father |
| Who does Joe later marry? | Pip wanted to marry Biddy, but came to town and discovered that Joe had just married her. |
| What happens to Magwitch? | He attacks Compeyson and is hit by a vessel, wounding and ultimately killing him. |
| How was "Great Expectations" originally written? | As several magazine installments. |
| Where does Pip first meet Abel Magwitch? | In the churchyard. Pip was looking at his parent's graves when he was accosted by the convict, Abel Magwitch. |
| What is the translation of the original name of Miss Havisham's house? | Enough & Enough House. The original name was Satis, meaning 'enough'. |
| In what trade is Pumblechook employed? | corn chandler |
| What is the name of Wemmick's wife? | Miss Skiffins. |
| In what play does Wopsle star? | Hamlet |
| What is the name of Miss Havisham's brother? | Arthur. He was actually her half-brother, the son of her father and the maid, and he later helped to betray her |
| What is the name of the man who left Miss Havisham on the altar? | He was also the person who got Magwitch in trouble |
| Wemmick's father responds very well to a particular gesture. What is it? | nodding |
| When Mr. Pocket is upset, he does something that strikes Pip as very strange. What does he do? | Whenever something upsets Mr. Pocket he pulls his hair so hard that he seems like he is trying to lift himself up: "[He] put his two hands into his disturbed hair, and appeared to make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it." |
| When Pip encounters Estella for the first time in years, he finds that her appearence is changed. But Estella tells Pip that there is something she doesn't have. What is it? | a heart....Estella says, "You must know that I have no heart...Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt and, of course, if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no--sympathy--sentiment--nonsense." |
| Who is the first character that Pip encounters in "Great Expectations"? | We first meet Pip in a cemetary by the church where he is threatened by an escaped convict. When he first sees the convict, Pip is quite frightened, although Dickens' description of the convict leads us to be sympathetic of him because of how he has been mistreated by society; "A fearful man, all in course gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin." |
| What color are all of Miss Havisham's clothes? | yellow.....Miss Havisham is an old lady who is stuck in the past. She has been wearing the same wedding dress, veil and shoe (she still hasn't put on the other shoe) ever since the day she was supposed to get married, but instead had her heart broken. But now, Pip "saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes." |
| What causes Pip to imagine his deceased mother as having been a "freckled and sickly" sort of person? | The inscription on her tombstone. ..."From the character and turn of the inscription [on her tombstone], "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly." The phrase, "Wife of the above," which led Pip to believe that his mother was regarded as inferior or weak in some way, refers to the above inscription of the name of Pip's father, who is also dead. |
| Who is the first person to make Pip worry about his lowly class and status? | When Pip visits Miss Havisham's for the first time he is greeted by Estella. Although she is his same age, she treats him as though he is younger and inferior. When they play cards for Miss Havisham, she taunts him and makes fun of his "coarse hands" and "thick boots." For the first time in his life, Pip feels ashamed of his upbringing and status. |
| While she is recovering from the attack, Mrs. Joe keeps drawing a certain symbol to represent someone she wants to visit her. What is the symbol and who is she signaling for? | After Mrs. Joe is hit in the back of the head by an attacker, the recovery of her speech and coordination is slow. She writes and draws symbols to express what she wants. Pip has trouble deciphering a certain symbol that Mrs. Joe keeps drawing, but Biddy helps him figure it out; Mrs. Joe has forgotten Orlick's name and so she signals for him by drawing a hammer. |
| When Pip meets a stranger at a bar, it is the stranger's disturbing way of stirring his drink that enlightens Pip on who the stranger truly is. With what does the stranger stir his drink? | By stirring his drink with a file that Pip gave the convict he encounters in the beginning of the book, the man at the bar signals to Pip that he is not really a stranger, but another escaped convict. |
| Discussion questions: | 1. Discuss the nature of Miss Havisham and Estella's relationship; 2. Describe Pip and Joe's relationship (beginning, end, and change), 3. Discuss Pip's happiness/unhappiness; 4. What lesson can you learn from the book?; 5. Do you think Pip and Estella can ever have a meaningful relationship? |
