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Great Expectations Study Questions
Great Expectations Study Questions
Great Expectations Study Questions
Chapters 1-9
1. What does the reader learn about Pip from his meeting with the convict?
Pip is easily manipulated, and he is willing to do what the convict tells him to
do.
2. Describe Mrs. Joe. How does she perceive her role as Pip’s Guardian?
4. Why does Pip’s convict tell the sergeant that he stole the file and the pie?
The convict wants to protect pip because Pip was kind to him.
8. Why does Pip tell lies to Mrs. Joe and Uncle Pumblechook about his visit to
Miss Havisham’s?
Pip wants to feel that he is more than common.
Chapter 10
10.The stranger identifies himself by stirring his drink with the file Pip gave the
convict; The stranger gives Pip two pounds.
Chapter 11
12.The individuals Pip meets are relatives to Miss Havisham who are visiting for
her birthday
Chapter 12
13.Pip spends time with Miss Havisham; Pip sings the song he learned from Joe
while at the forge.
14.Miss Havisham said she could help with the papers to make the
apprenticeship official.
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
17.Pip hates being bound to Joe, and continues to long for the upper class
membership.
Chapter 15
19.Joe and Orlick fight over an argument Orlick had with Mrs. Joe about Orlick
taking a vacation day.
21.Pip discovered that Mrs. Joe was attacked and now is brain-damaged.
Chapter 16
22.Her mother had confirmed a habit of living she had fallen into.
Chapter 17
23.Pip discusses his lack of satisfaction with the life he is living with Biddy while
they walk along the river.
Chapter 18
24.Pip realizes Jaggers was the stranger who he met on the stairs at Miss
Havisham’s.
26.Joe refuses the money offered to him for the loss of his apprentice.
Chapter 19
27.Pip allows Pumblechook to take him out to dinner; this is the Pips first rise in
his gaining social rank.
28.Miss Havisham is excited for Pip and this leads him to believe that she is his
benefactor.
Chapter 20
1. Pip believes London to be dreary after seeing the jail and the courthouse.
2. Jaggers is a skilled, famous lawyer; Jaggers seems like this because everyone
wants him to be their lawyer in court.
Chapter 21