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WorksheetsGreat Expectations Chapters 51 - 53
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Why did Pip confront Jaggers about Estella's parentage?
For Estella's sake
To find out if Mr Jaggers knew about her origins
To reveal his love for Estella
To get Jagger's help him bring the parents and daughter together
When Pip tells Mr Jaggers about the events at Miss Havisham's and asks for the money to be given to Herbert, what does Mr Jaggers say?
It's best to mind your own business
Pip should have asked for something in return
Everyman's business is portable property
He regrets that they can't do anything for him
What is Mr Jaggers' reaction when Pip reveals that he knows more about Estella's history than Mr Jaggers?
He repressed any show of emotion
He took out his pocket hankerchief and blew his nose
There was no change in his manner
He started slightly
When Pip entreats Wemmick to persuade Mr Jaggers to be more open with him, the two me looked at each other very (a)
Did Mr Jaggers know about the existence of Wemmick's father and his pleasant home?
YES
NO
After finding out about Wemmick's hidden side and home, he calls him 'the most cunning (a) of all London.'
Mr Jaggers tells Pip it would not be of any use to reveal the secret of Estella's parentage. What are his arguments for doing this and do you agree with him?
The mother is safer not knowing about Estella's existence
It would ruin Estella's future
The father would not gain anything
Keeping the secret is in the interests of all parties concerned
What is the deed that Pip thinks is 'the only good thing I had done'?
Revealing the secret of Estella's parentage
Helping Magwitch
Giving Miss Havisham's money to help Herbert in his new partnership
Settling his affairs with Miss Havisham
'And now indeed I felt as if my last anchor were loosening its hold and I would soon be driving with the winds and the waves. ' What literary technique is this an example of?
Personification
Simile
Pathetic Fallacy
Metaphor
What does the note that Pip receives ask him to do?
To meet Herbert with the Passports
To meet someone at the Marshes with information about his Uncle Provis
To destroy the note
To arrange a steamer to help Magwitch escape
'The falser he, the truer Joe; the meaner he, the nobler Joe.' Who does 'he' refer to?
Mr Pumblechook
Magwitch
Jaggers
Pip
Who is he attacked by at the Marshes?
A stranger
Compeyson
Orlick
Why does Orlick want to kill Pip?
Pip knows he attacked Mrs Joe
Because Pip had been favoured whereas he had been bullied and beat
Pip had lost him his job
He is a fugitive
Who rescues Pip from Orlick?
Herbert
Herbert and Trabb's boy
Startop, Herbert and Trabb's boy
At the end of Chapter 53 Pip the narrator says 'From me too a veil seemed to be drawn'. What does the veil refer to?
The solution to the mystery
The pain in his arm
His anxiety and fretfulness
The plans for Magwitch's escape
