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Great Expectations
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By Charles Dickens
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(A) melodramatic
(B) demented
(C) enigmatic
(D) mawkish
(E) sentimental
(A) line 36
(B) line 37 (first instance)
(C) line 37 (second instance)
(D) line 40
(E) line 57
12. The descriptions in the two paragraphs in lines 43-56 primarily suggest a sense of
(A) preservation
(B) disintegration
(C) destruction
(D) familial affiliation
(E) depersonalization
13. The verbal exchange between Pip and Miss Havisham in lines 65-81 reveals that
14. The atmosphere Miss Havisham creates in her room could best be described as
15. Given the passage as a whole, Miss Havisham’s last words in lines 98-99 are
9. (D) does have a conscience. Pip is admitting that he told an “enormous lie.” The
words “I regret to state” show that he understands lying is wrong, and he is sorry to have
to tell the reader that he nevertheless defied his conscience and told a lie to Miss
Havisham. His statement of regret is not intense enough to suggest that he is “burdened
with guilt.”
11. (D) line 40. Only in line 40 is Pip being directly addressed. In the other lines, Miss
Havisham and Estella are referring to him in the third person.
12. (B) disintegration. The strange atmosphere in the room is conveyed through
multiple images of disintegration and decay. The once-white shoe and the once-white
stocking are now yellowed with age. The stocking has been “trodden ragged.” The bridal
dress on the “collapsed form” is now “withered” so that it looks like “grave-clothes.”
Miss Havisham herself is “corpse-like.” Pip says that, looking back, he is reminded of
ancient bodies that “fall to powder.” He reflects that Miss Havisham’s appearance
suggested that daylight “would have struck her to dust.”
13. (B) Pip has conflicting feelings about Estella. Pip’s ambivalence toward Estella is
seen in his statements that she is “very proud” and also “very pretty,” and that while she
is “very insulting,” he is “not sure that I shouldn’t like to see her again.”
14. (E) oppressive and confrontational. The suggestions of death and decay in the
room make it oppressive. Estella confronts Pip about his coarse hands and his incorrect
terminology for the cards. Miss Havisham demands that Pip tell her what he thinks of
Estella, that he finish the game before he goes home, and that he return in six days.
15. (C) unexpectedly sympathetic to Pip. In the entire passage, Miss Havisham has
shown no concern for Pip’s feelings. She has been imperious and demanding. Here, in
contrast, she tells Estella to see that Pip receives something to eat and to allow him to
“roam and look about” the place.