Great Expectations Trivia

1. What is the name of Pip's mother?

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Georgiana

He knew her as "also Georgiana, wife of the above" which was written on her tombstone.

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume I)

Answer: An escaped convict

We first meet Pip in a cemetery 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."

From Quiz "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Answer: Phillip

People call him Pip because he found Phillip too hard to pronounce.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Philip Pirrip

It is stated in the beginning of the book.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Pirrip

Pip's first name was Phillip, and last Pirrip, so he melded them into Pip.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Estella

She is incredibly beautiful.

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume II)

Answer: A spider

Mr. Jaggers immediately takes a liking to Bentley Drummle, who is introduced to him by Pip (although Pip doesn't like him very much). Mr. Jaggers calls him "The Spider" and describes him as "the blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow."

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume I)

Answer: 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."

From Quiz "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Answer: Blacksmith

He apprenticed Pip in the beginning of the book.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: 8:40

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.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Cane

The tickler is Mrs. Gargery's way of disciplining Pip.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Churchyard

Pip was looking at his parent's graves when he was accosted by the convict, Abel Magwitch.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Handel

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.

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume II)

Answer: Nodding

Mr. Jaggers's clerk, Wemmick, invites Pip to visit him at home. He introduces Pip to his elderly father (the "aged parent"), who is deaf. Wemmick keeps telling Pip to nod at his father: "Nod away at him, Mr. Pip; that's what he likes. Nod away at him, if you please, like winking!"

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume I)

Answer: 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.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Answer: Magwitch

Magwitch later became Pip's benefactor.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Mr. Jaggers

Pip's benefactor did now want to be acknowledged right off and instead entrusted dear Pip to Mr. Jaggers.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Molly

This information is revealed at the end of the book. Estella was born to Molly but was given to Miss Havisham to take revenge upon the male population.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Enough & Enough House

The original name was Satis, meaning 'enough'.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Herbert

Herbert Pocket, formerly known as the pale gentleman, is Pip's best friend.

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume II)

Answer: He pulls his hair very hard

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."

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume I)

Answer: Phillip Pirrip

His full name, Phillip Pirrip, was quite a mouthful for Pip when he was younger. He called himself "Pip" and the nickname stuck.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Answer: Twenty to nine

All of the clocks in her house were stopped at twenty to nine.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: To write

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. "As I lay in bed looking at him, it made me, in my weak state, cry again with pleasure to see the pride with which he set about his letter."

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Tumbled Up

Pip had the impression that they tumbled up because they kept tripping over a foot stool at the feet of Mrs. Pocket.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Nodding

Mr. Wemmick's father, also known as "The Aged" or "The Aged Parent" is extremely hard of hearing. "Just tip him a nod and he'll be as happy as a king".

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume II)

Answer: 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."

From Quiz The Characters of "Great Expectations" (Volume I)

Answer: His nose

During one Christmas dinner, Pip tells the readers, "Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled." This is certainly not the last time we hear about Mr. Wopsle and his "Roman nose."

From Quiz "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Answer: Father

This is a shocking fact discovered in the plotline.

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