Great Expectations Quiz Challenge - How Much Do You Know? | Dickens, Charles

Answer: False

"Come here! You may kiss me if you like."
I kissed her cheek as she turned it towards me. I think I would have gone through a great deal to kiss her cheek."

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.

Answer: Mr. Jaggers

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

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."

Answer: Burned

Miss Havisham's clothing got caught on fire and Pip put the fire out, saving her. But in the process he burned his hands. She ended up dying from her injuries.

Answer: Nod towards the "aged"

Wemmick's "aged parent" was hard of hearing and to communicate with him Pip would nod and it seemed to make the old man happy.

Answer: "Dear little thing"

Ever since Clara was introduced in the middle of the book he referred to her as "dear little thing."

Answer: Molly

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 altar and wanted to love someone.

Answer: Magwitch

Though this gentleman has many names such as Magwitch and Provis, his birth name is Abel.

Answer: Green

Pip made many comments on the fact she wore green gloves always except on her wedding day which she changed back to green ones right afterwards.

Answer: Lawyer

Guardianship was turned over to Mr. Jaggers until Pip's benefactor presented himself.

Answer: Hamburg

The ship Hamburg is the ship that captured Pip's benefactor, Provis.

Answer: Orlick

Ole Orlick admits his guilt towards the end of the book when he tries to kill Pip as well.

Answer: Drummle

Estella ended up marrying Drummle, breaking Pip's poor heart. She did not love Drummle and ended up regretting that choice.

Answer: True

"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

Answer: Drummle

While having some of the boys over to his house, Mr. Jaggers referred to Drummle as "the spider." He said he liked the look of the boy but not to trust him.

Answer: False

"Estella. I am ignorant what may become of me very soon, how poor I may be, or where I may go. Still, I love you. I have loved you ever since I first saw you in this house."
~ Pip

Answer: Apron

"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."

Answer: Cook

A housemaid came in and told Mr. Pocket the cook was drunk and passed out in the kitchen. Mrs. Pocket defended the cook saying that it was the housemaids doing, causing mischief.

Answer: 2

Dickens wrote a new ending to the story just before initial publication. In most books, both endings are printed. If you have a book with the original ending, wow.. you're rich!