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GREAT EXPECTATIONS STUDY GUIDE
1. What is Pip’s real name?
2. What does Pip come across in the churchyard?
3. What does the convict ask Pip for?
4. What do the soldiers have with them when they enter Pip’s house during Christmas dinner?
5. What do the soldiers want?
6. Why are Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook excited for Pip to play at Miss Havisham’s?
7. What is Miss Havisham wearing when Pip first meets her?
8. How does Estella treat Pip?
9. What advice does Joe give to Pip?
10. What does the stranger in the Three Jolly Bargemen give to Pip?
11. What does Miss Havisham encourage Estella to do?
12. What does Pip get when he wins the fight against the “pale youth”?
13. What does Miss Havisham offer Pip?
14. What happens when Mrs. Joe is attacked?
15. Whom do Biddy and Pip suspect to be Mrs. Joe’s attacker?
16. What does Jaggers tell Pip is in his future?
17. Whom does Pip believe his benefactor to be?
18. Where does Pip remember Herbert from?
19. What is Herbert’s nickname for Pip?
20. What does Herbert reveal about Miss Havisham?
21. What news does Joe bring from Satis House to London?
22. What surprises Pip about Estella when he sees her again?
23. After reading the sealed letter signed TRABB & CO who does Pip learn has died?
24. What does Pip receive on his 21st birthday?
25. How does Pip want to help Herbert?
26. Besides Pip, who is courting Estella?
27. Who is revealed as Pip’s benefactor?
28. What does Pip call his convict?
29. How is Compeyson tied to Miss Havisham?
30. What does Miss Havisham agree to do for Pip?
31. Who does Pip believe Molly is?
32. How does Miss Havisham get injured?
33. Who is Estella’s father?
34. What crime does Orlick confess to?
35. Who saves Pip from Orlick (novel not the movie)
36. What happens when Pip tries to help Magwitch escape?
37. What does Pip say at Magwitch’s bedside after he died?
38. What surprises Pip about Biddy?
39. What is the name of Joe and Biddy’s son?
40. What does Pip come across when he returns to Satis House?
Essay responses – respond to ONE of the following prompts in detailed,
multiple paragraph (2 or 3 paragraphs minimum) essay.
A) Discuss the theme of Expectations versus Reality in Great Expectations…what is the ultimate
message of the novel and lesson from Charles Dickens? Use specific characters and details from the
story to support your response. How effective is Dickens in creating his world and relating his
message?
B) How is Great Expectations a novel about redemption and forgiveness? What is the ultimate
message about these themes that Dickens is telling the audience? Use specific characters and details
from the story to support your response.