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Supplementary Reader- Great Expectations

Class - VIII Worksheet no.1 Chapter 1 to 15

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Q1. Choose the correct option for each of the questions given below:
Pip is an orphan who lives in the marsh country along the river
a. Mississipi
b. Thames
c. Nile
d. Amazon

1. The sergeant came to Joe’s house to

a. Arrest Pip
b. Enquire about the convict whom Pip had helped
c. Have Christmas dinner
d. Get the handcuffs fixed

2. Christmas dinner is a nerve-wracking one for Pip as he fears :

a. What will Mr. Pumblechook do when he tastes the watered-down brandy
b. What will happen when his sister discovers that the pork-pie is gone
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above

3. Pip goes to an evening school in the village run by

a. Mr. Wopsle
b. Mr. Pumblechook
c. Mr Wopsle’s great aunt
d. Biddy
Q2. Fill in the blanks on the basis of your reading of the book:
i) This novel is based on the post-Industrial Revolution model of Victorian England.
ii) Uncle Pumblechook escorts Pip to Miss Havisham’s house.
iii) Biddy manages Mr. Wopsle's great aunt's grocery store, which happens to be in the
schoolroom.
iv)Pip returns to Miss Havisham's. He meets Sarah Pocket, Camilla and Raymond, who
flatter Miss Havisham in hopes of getting her money when she dies.
 Q3. Match the characters with their identity in the novel:

i. Miss Havisham a cold, manipulative young woman (ii)

ii. Estella an eccentric old woman (i)
iii. Mr Wopsle corn merchant (iv)
iv. Uncle Pumblechook the church clerk (iii)

Q4. Complete the web-charts:

(a)

Gullible
Innocent

PIP

Passionate
Sympathetic

(b)

Stern
Short-tempered

Mrs Joe

Ambitious Overbearing
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Supplementary Reader- Great Expectations
Class - VIII Worksheet no.2 Chapter 16 to 26

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I. Answer the questions on the basis of what is implied or stated in the passage or
introductory material that may be provided.
1. Pip meets the other gentlemen Mr. Pocket tutors, Drummle and Startop, and has dinner
with the Pockets, their neighbour (Mrs. Coiler), Startop, and Drummle.
The dinner is chaotic as :
a. Mrs. Pocket cooks badly.
b. Mrs. Pocket sleeps off.
c. Mrs. Pocket starts jumping.
d. Mrs. Pocket allows the children to play with dangerous objects.

2. As Wemmick predicted, Jaggers invites Pip and his companions (Herbert, Startop, and
Drummle) to dinner at his house. Pip notices how thoroughly Jaggers washes his hands
before leaving his office, as if he is washing away his clients.
At dinner, Jaggers takes an unusual interest in Drummle, giving him the nickname
a. “the spider.”
b. “the bat”
c. “the cockroach”
d. “the ant”

3. Pip travels by coach through London to Mr. Jaggers’ office and is told by Jaggers’s clerk
that the lawyer is in court. He waits in Jaggers’ office and then walks around Little
Britain, passing Newgate Prison, and returning finally to see a string of clients waiting for
Jaggers.
Jaggers briefly meets with Pip and tells him to go to Wemmick:
a. when he falls sick
b. when he needs money
c. when he is hungry
d. when he is in trouble

4. Pip notices that Biddy is growing into a sweet-tempered, good young woman, though she
will never be as beautiful as Estella. When they go walking on Sunday, he seems to be
romantically attracted to her, but he confides in her that he is dissatisfied working at the
forge and wants to become a gentleman.
He also admits that :
a. he admires the beautiful Estella.
b. he admires Biddy.
c. he admires Flopson
d. he admires Mrs.Pocket
II Match the characters/places with their description :

He will also serve as Pip’s new guardian.

He is dark, pragmatic, professional, and
arrogant. (a) Mr. Jaggers

A fine hotel and

restaurant in the
village catering to
wealthy patrons
Flopson Miss Havisham’s jealous
brother who conspired with
(b) The Blue a friend to have her
abandoned by her fiancé
Boar
Mr. Jaggers on her wedding day many
years ago. (c) Arthur
The Blue Boarrr

Arthur

The household nurse who takes care of the

children and who—though often exasperated by
the constant chaos—seems much more competent
than Mrs. Pocket. d)Miss Flopson
III. Study the given chart carefully and complete it.

Pip’s expectations
deflate when
Pip anticipates luxurious b) Wemmick takes
accommodations like him to Barnard’s Inn.
those found at the

a) Blue Boar
Barnard’s Inn
At the Inn Pip recognizes
Herbert Pocket as the ‘pale
young gentleman’ he first
At Barnard’s Inn Pip met at d) Satis House
stays with c) Herbert
Pocket.

Its appearance shocks Pip who

expects luxurious
accommodation.

IV Fill in the blanks:

a)The area in London where Jaggers worked was Little Britain .
b) Mr.Jaggers was the lawyer who tells Pip and Joe the details of Pip’s new, great
expectations.

c) Barnard's Inn was an unwholesome, stale old inn with wet rot and dry rot where Pip
stays with Herbert Pocket.

d)Jaggers’s sullen housekeeper Molly was a mysterious woman of about forty who reminded
Pip of the witches in Macbeth.

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 Class – VIII Supplementary Reader- Great Expectations
Worksheet No.3 Chapter 27 to 43
Name:_____________________________________ Sec: _____ Roll No.:________

1) Answer the following by choosing the correct option :

1. Mr. Jaggers invites Pip into his office and after grilling him for a while, tells Pip
that he's getting a gigantic birthday present.
a) Pip will receive an allowance of 500 pounds a year.
b) He will be taken out for dinner
c) He will get a new coat
d) He will get 5000 pounds

2. Wemmick advises Pip

a) to donate money
b) never to lend anyone some money
c) to invest money in a new house
d) to lend him some money

3. Pip puts the convict to bed in Herbert's room after giving him
a) a bowl of soup
b) a cup of tea
c) a fancy nightgown
d) a blanket

4. ____________________ was kind of a jack-of-all-trades, doing anything that

needed to get done whenever it needed to get done. He even taught himself how to
read and write.
a)Compeyson
b) Pip
c) Magwitch
d) Herbert

II) Fill in the blanks:

a. Pip enjoyed the honour of occupying a few prominent pages in the books of a
neighbouring upholsterer. .
b. Miss Havisham had adopted Estella.
c. Pip doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss
Havisham’s.
d. Mr.Wopsle was the most delightful lecturer on domestic economy.

III) Match the speakers with their words

(a) “When I came to Ms Havisham, I thought

there was nothing of Estella in the face or
 (c) “A Coiner, a very good
workman. The Recorder’s
report is made to-day, and
he is sure to be executed
(b) “I had the happiness
on Monday. Still you see,
to know you in former Pip
as far as it goes, a pair of
times, and the drama has Estella
ever had a claim which pigeons are portable
has ever been property, all the same.”
acknowledged, on the
noble and the affluent.” WEMMICK
Wopsle
Wemmick
Mr.WOPSLE

(d) I’m going to live at a great expense,

with a lady there, who has the power –or
says she has –of taking me about, and
introducing me, and showing people to
me and showing me to people.”

ESTELLA

IV Study the given chart carefully and complete it.

(a) Mr. Pocket-

Estella - RESPECTFUL
Love

Describe in a
word, the
feeling/emotio
n Pip had……
(d) Joe - KIND (b) Miss Havisham
- COLD HEARTED
- HEARTED

(c) Herbert -
CONFIDANTE
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 Class – VIII Supplementary Reader- Great Expectations
Worksheet no.4 Chapter 44 to 59
Name:_____________________________________ Sec: _____ Roll
No.:________
Q1 Choose the correct answer from the options given.
A) Which statement is correct:
a) Pip tells Estella that he loves her
b) Pip tells Estella that he hates her
c) Pip tells Miss Havisham that he loves her
d) Pip doesn’t tell anything to Estella

B) Pip receives a letter regarding:

a) Magwitch
b) Uncle Provis
c) Estella
d) Estella’s mother

C) Pip becomes ill:

a) after Magwitch’s death
b) after meeting Herbert
c) after meeting Molly
d) after meeting Mr Jaggers

D) Pip confronts Jaggers about Estella's parentage. He admits that:

a) Molly is Estella’s cousin
b) Molly is Estella’s mother
c) Molly is Estella’s aunt
d) Molly is Estella’s sister

Q2 –Match the following:

a.Mrs. Whimple Herbert’s fiancée, a pretty, dark-eyed girl (B)
b. Clara Barley the housekeeper at Clara’s father’s house (A)
c. Mr. Campbell described by Herbert as a “truculent ogre” with gout (D)
d. Old Barley a lodger C)
Q3- Complete the following paragraph with the help of the words given in the
box.

Jaggers, Estella’s marriage, Molly, Miss Havisham

Jaggers invites Pip to dinner, where he gives the young man a note from Miss
Havisham. When Jaggers mentions Estella's marriage shortly after Jaggers’s
housekeeper Molly walks in, Pip realizes that Molly is the person he couldn’t place, the
person Estella mysteriously resembles. He realizes at once that Molly must be Estella’s
Mother.

Q.4 Write two qualities to describe the characters given below.

Estella Pip

COLD MATURED

MANIPULATIVE DESIRE TO IMPROVE HIMSELF