GE-001 – Great Expectations – Study Questions
and Answers (Charles Dickens) – Complete Novel
Review Material
What is Pips real name? - Pirrip✅✅✅
What does he know about his real parents? - That they dies and their names✅✅✅
Who has raised him? - His sister (Ms. Joe)✅✅✅
Who is Joe? What is his occupation? - Pips sisters husband. He is a blacksmith.✅✅✅
Where did Pip meet the convict? - In the graveyard✅✅✅
What is he told he must bring the convict? - A file and food✅✅✅
What reception does Pip have when he returnes home? - A reception with his sister about where he
has been.✅✅✅
Why doesn't Pip eat his bread and butter - He saves it to give it to the convict✅✅✅
What does Pip steal from the Gargerys? - Liquarice, water, a meat bone, and a pork pie. Also the file
for the convict.✅✅✅
Does Pip's conscience bother him concerning the theft? - Yes. He feels bad for stealing from Mr.
Joe.✅✅✅
What suprise awaits Pip when he returns to the graveyard to give the convict food? - He found a man
in grey but it was a different man.✅✅✅
What lie does Pip tell Mrs. Joe when he returns from the graveyard? - He says he went out and
listened to Christmas carold.✅✅✅
What does Pip expect to have happen all during Christmas dinner? - For his family to find out that he
stole food and wine.✅✅✅
What topic is discussed at length during dinner? - They talk about Pip and how ungrateful he
is.✅✅✅
Why is Uncle Pumblechook unable to drink the brandy? - Because Pip had filled it with tar.✅✅✅
, Why does Pip flee for his life as dinner ends? - Because his sister finally goes and looks for the pork
pie and she finds out someone has stolen it.✅✅✅
What brings the dinner party to a confusing end? - Soilders come with loaded guns to their door
step✅✅✅
Why does Pip think theyve come to arrest him - because he stole a pie earlier✅✅✅why have the
soilders come - they need a blacksmith✅✅✅
why do the men go to the marshes with the soldiers - to see if they catch the bandits✅✅✅
what are the convicts doing when they are found - fighting✅✅✅
what does the convict do to save pip any trouble over stolen items - he says he stole the food and
drink✅✅✅
why doesnt pip tell joe the truth about the file - he thinks that joe will never trust him again✅✅✅
what is to be pips future occupation - a blacksmith like joe✅✅✅
how much education does pip have - he goes to a school taught by his great aunt✅✅✅
how well educated is joe - not educated at all✅✅✅
why is joes education at this level - because he never went to school✅✅✅
what is joes opinion of mrs. joe - "a fine figure of a woman"✅✅✅
why does he allow her to treat him as she does - because he feels bad for all the work she has to
do?✅✅✅
what news does mrs. joe have for pip when she returns home this day? - that pip is going to play for
miss havisham✅✅✅
Why is the house named satis - because it mean "enough" because it is so big and whoever had it
could want nothing else✅✅✅
what does miss havisham want pip to do - play with estella✅✅✅
what is estellas attitude towards pip - bad. she treats him horribly and insults him often.✅✅✅
what is pips reaction to estellas attitude and treatment of him - he starts thinking less about
himself✅✅✅
and Answers (Charles Dickens) – Complete Novel
Review Material
What is Pips real name? - Pirrip✅✅✅
What does he know about his real parents? - That they dies and their names✅✅✅
Who has raised him? - His sister (Ms. Joe)✅✅✅
Who is Joe? What is his occupation? - Pips sisters husband. He is a blacksmith.✅✅✅
Where did Pip meet the convict? - In the graveyard✅✅✅
What is he told he must bring the convict? - A file and food✅✅✅
What reception does Pip have when he returnes home? - A reception with his sister about where he
has been.✅✅✅
Why doesn't Pip eat his bread and butter - He saves it to give it to the convict✅✅✅
What does Pip steal from the Gargerys? - Liquarice, water, a meat bone, and a pork pie. Also the file
for the convict.✅✅✅
Does Pip's conscience bother him concerning the theft? - Yes. He feels bad for stealing from Mr.
Joe.✅✅✅
What suprise awaits Pip when he returns to the graveyard to give the convict food? - He found a man
in grey but it was a different man.✅✅✅
What lie does Pip tell Mrs. Joe when he returns from the graveyard? - He says he went out and
listened to Christmas carold.✅✅✅
What does Pip expect to have happen all during Christmas dinner? - For his family to find out that he
stole food and wine.✅✅✅
What topic is discussed at length during dinner? - They talk about Pip and how ungrateful he
is.✅✅✅
Why is Uncle Pumblechook unable to drink the brandy? - Because Pip had filled it with tar.✅✅✅
, Why does Pip flee for his life as dinner ends? - Because his sister finally goes and looks for the pork
pie and she finds out someone has stolen it.✅✅✅
What brings the dinner party to a confusing end? - Soilders come with loaded guns to their door
step✅✅✅
Why does Pip think theyve come to arrest him - because he stole a pie earlier✅✅✅why have the
soilders come - they need a blacksmith✅✅✅
why do the men go to the marshes with the soldiers - to see if they catch the bandits✅✅✅
what are the convicts doing when they are found - fighting✅✅✅
what does the convict do to save pip any trouble over stolen items - he says he stole the food and
drink✅✅✅
why doesnt pip tell joe the truth about the file - he thinks that joe will never trust him again✅✅✅
what is to be pips future occupation - a blacksmith like joe✅✅✅
how much education does pip have - he goes to a school taught by his great aunt✅✅✅
how well educated is joe - not educated at all✅✅✅
why is joes education at this level - because he never went to school✅✅✅
what is joes opinion of mrs. joe - "a fine figure of a woman"✅✅✅
why does he allow her to treat him as she does - because he feels bad for all the work she has to
do?✅✅✅
what news does mrs. joe have for pip when she returns home this day? - that pip is going to play for
miss havisham✅✅✅
Why is the house named satis - because it mean "enough" because it is so big and whoever had it
could want nothing else✅✅✅
what does miss havisham want pip to do - play with estella✅✅✅
what is estellas attitude towards pip - bad. she treats him horribly and insults him often.✅✅✅
what is pips reaction to estellas attitude and treatment of him - he starts thinking less about
himself✅✅✅
