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Great Expectations Study Guide Questions, Exercises of Literature

University of Wisconsin CollegesLiterature

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Name Date Period
Great Expectations
Study Guide Questions
Directions: You do not need complete sentences, but you do need thorough answers (not one-word
answers). Keep up with the questions as we read the novel. These questions will be used to guide
our conversations in class.
STAGE 1
Chapters 1-2
1. Identify Pip, Mrs. Joe, and Joe. Who are they? What are their roles at this point? Explain.
Pip:
Mrs. Joe:
Joe:
2. Who does Pip meet in the graveyard? Why is this person important to Pip? Explain.
3. What is Pip ordered to fetch under threat of losing his heart and liver? Why is this important?
Explain.
4. Explain how Pip and Joe were "brought up by hand." What does this saying mean? Explain
why it is important.
5. What does Pip do which causes him to have a guilty conscience? Why is this important?
Explain.
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Directions: You do not need complete sentences, but you do need thorough answers (not one-word answers). Keep up with the questions as we read the novel. These questions will be used to guide our conversations in class.

STAGE 1 Chapters 1-

  1. Identify Pip, Mrs. Joe, and Joe. Who are they? What are their roles at this point? Explain.

Pip:

Mrs. Joe:

Joe:

  1. Who does Pip meet in the graveyard? Why is this person important to Pip? Explain.
  2. What is Pip ordered to fetch under threat of losing his heart and liver? Why is this important? Explain.
  3. Explain how Pip and Joe were "brought up by hand." What does this saying mean? Explain why it is important.
  4. What does Pip do which causes him to have a guilty conscience? Why is this important? Explain.

Chapters 3 - 7

  1. Why does Joe give Pip more gravy during dinner? How does this gesture show their relationship? Explain.
  2. Joe says, "We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creature." What do we learn about Joe's character from this quote? Explain.
  3. Identify Mr. Wopsle and Mr. Pumblechook. What are their roles in the novel? Explain.

Mr. Wopsle:

Mr. Pumblechook:

  1. What happens when Pip meets the convict in the marshes the second time? Explain.
  2. At the end of chapter 4, why goes Pip "run for his life," and why doesn’t he get very far? Explain.
  3. What are the two convicts arguing about when they are captured? Why is this important? Explain.
  4. What news does Mrs. Joe bring at the end of Chapter 7? Explain why it is important.
  1. "Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." Explain the significance of this quote. What does it mean?
  2. Why do Camilla, Raymond and Sarah Pocket visit Miss Havisham? Explain.

Chapters 13 - 19

  1. Why does Joe go to see Miss Havisham? Explain this scene and Joe’s behavior. Why is it important?
  2. Why does Mrs. Joe get the twenty-five pounds? Explain.
  3. For what purpose does Pip wish to return to Miss Havisham's after he is dismissed? What is the real purpose? Explain why.
  4. Why does Biddy come to live with the Gargerys? Explain her role at this point in the novel.
  5. Explain "Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better." What does it mean? Who is saying it?
  6. What is Pip's great expectation? Explain.
  7. Who will be Pip's tutor? Explain his/her role.
  1. What does Pip want Biddy to do for Joe? Explain.

STAGE 2

Chapters 20 - 25

  1. Identify Herbert Pocket. What is his role? Explain.
  2. Who are Jaggers and Wemmick? Explain their characters in the novel.

Jaggers:

Wemmick:

  1. Why does Pip describe the seven little Pockets as "tumbling up" instead of "growing up"? What is Pip trying to tell us? Explain.
  2. Who are Startop and Drummle? Explain their characters.

Startop:

Drummle:

  1. What does Herbert tell Pip about Estella? Explain this story.
  1. "... I thought of the beautiful young Estella... with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her." Explain this quote and then come back to this question later, after completing the novel, and explain why this statement is ironic.

Chapters 35 - 39

  1. How do Pip and Herbert attack the problem of their debts? Explain.
  2. What news does the letter from Trabb & Co. bring? Explain.
  3. Why does Pip say Biddy has hurt him? Explain.
  4. What does Pip receive on his birthday? Explain why it is important.
  5. What does Pip do for Herbert? Explain its importance.
  6. Describe the two sides of Wemmick's character. Why are they important? Explain.
  7. Estella says, "I am what you have made me." Explain.
  8. Who is Pip's benefactor? How does this person change the story? Explain.

STAGE 3

Chapters 40 - 43

  1. What will happen to Magwitch if he is caught in England? Explain.
  2. Who is Compeyson? What is his role? Explain.
  3. Who is Provis? What is his role? Explain.
  4. Why does Herbert advise Pip to get Provis out of England? Explain.
  5. What does Drummle inform Pip? Explain.

Chapters 44 - 48

  1. Explain how Miss Havisham has used Pip. Why is it important to the story? Explain.
  2. What two things does Pip ask of Miss Havisham? Why? Explain.
  3. Estella to Pip: "Don't be afraid of my being a blessing to him, I shall not be that." Explain what Estella means.
  4. What does Pip find out from Wemmick? Explain.
  1. What happens to Magwitch? Explain.
  2. Pip says, "I only saw him as a much better man than I had been to Joe." Explain how this shows Pip's growth as a character.
  3. How does Pip treat Magwitch after his capture? Why? Explain.
  4. What happens to Pip's "great expectations"? Explain.
  5. Who nurses Pip back to health? Why is this important to the story? Explain.
  6. Why does Joe begin calling Pip "Sir" as Pip gets better? Explain your answer.
  7. What surprises Pip when he arrives at Joe's house? Explain.
  8. How does Pip carry on with his life without great expectations? Explain.
  9. Is the relationship between Pip and Estella resolved? If so, how? If not, how not? Explain.