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Quiz about The Characters of Great Expectations Volume I
Quiz about The Characters of Great Expectations Volume I

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


One of the things Dickens is most famous for is his vivid, detailed and often humorous character descriptions. Enjoy a quiz on the characters in "Great Expectations".

A multiple-choice quiz by newtscamander. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Time
4 mins
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Multiple Choice
Quiz #
222,460
Updated
Dec 03 21
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Question 1 of 10
1. Who is the first character that Pip encounters in "Great Expectations"? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What color are all of Miss Havisham's clothes? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What causes Pip to imagine his deceased mother as having been a "freckled and sickly" sort of person? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. A person's nickname name can often tell us a lot about his or her identity and character. What is Pip's real, full name? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which aggravating feature of Mr. Wopsle's appearence does Pip often mention? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. How is Joe related to Pip? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Who is the first person to make Pip worry about his lowly class and status? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. While she is recovering from the attack, Mrs. Joe keeps drawing a certain symbol to represent someone she wants to visit her. What is the symbol and who is she signaling for? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which of the following does Joe NOT do when he is pondering something? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. When Pip meets a stranger at a bar, it is the stranger's disturbing way of stirring his drink that enlightens Pip on who the stranger truly is. With what does the stranger stir his drink? Hint





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1. Who is the first character that Pip encounters in "Great Expectations"?

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."
2. What color are all of Miss Havisham's clothes?

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."
3. What causes Pip to imagine his deceased mother as having been a "freckled and sickly" sort of person?

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.
4. A person's nickname name can often tell us a lot about his or her identity and character. What is Pip's real, full name?

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.
5. Which aggravating feature of Mr. Wopsle's appearence does Pip often mention?

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."
6. How is Joe related to Pip?

Answer: He is Pip's brother in law.

Joe, although he is married to Pip's mean sister, is one of the only characters who is nice to Pip. He is childish, but also shares his unassuming wisdom with Pip from time to time. Pip gives our first impression of Joe: "Joe was a fair man, with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites.

He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow- a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness."
7. Who is the first person to make Pip worry about his lowly class and status?

Answer: Estella

When Pip visits Miss Havisham's for the first time he is greeted by Estella. Although she is his same age, she treats him as though he is younger and inferior. When they play cards for Miss Havisham, she taunts him and makes fun of his "coarse hands" and "thick boots." For the first time in his life, Pip feels ashamed of his upbringing and status.
8. While she is recovering from the attack, Mrs. Joe keeps drawing a certain symbol to represent someone she wants to visit her. What is the symbol and who is she signaling for?

Answer: A hammer...Dolge Orlick

After Mrs. Joe is hit in the back of the head by an attacker, the recovery of her speech and coordination is slow. She writes and draws symbols to express what she wants. Pip has trouble deciphering a certain symbol that Mrs. Joe keeps drawing, but Biddy helps him figure it out; Mrs. Joe has forgotten Orlick's name and so she signals for him by drawing a hammer.
9. Which of the following does Joe NOT do when he is pondering something?

Answer: Cracks his knuckles

When deep in thought or simply relaxing, Joe is often seen stroking his beard, smoking his pipe or playing with the fire. For example, when Joe has a serious talk with Pip, Pip notices that Joe "taking up the poker, and settling himself to his usual occupation when he was thoughtful, of slowly raking the fire between the lower bars."
10. When Pip meets a stranger at a bar, it is the stranger's disturbing way of stirring his drink that enlightens Pip on who the stranger truly is. With what does the stranger stir his drink?

Answer: A file

By stirring his drink with a file that Pip gave the convict he encounters in the beginning of the book, the man at the bar signals to Pip that he is not really a stranger, but another escaped convict.
Source: Author newtscamander

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