English 122

Great Expectations: Reading Questions, Stage One, Chapters 10-19

1. To whom does Pip go to be schooled, other than Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt?

2. During a typical class, in what activity does the lady mostly partake?

3. Give the name of the public house in Joe and Pip's village.

4. Joe and Pip meet a stranger there one night. With what does the stranger stir his drink?

5. Pip says that "Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open" after leaving the pub. Why did he do this?

6. What had the mysterious stranger given Pip that caused a great stir at home?

7. During his next visit to Miss Havisham's, Estella asks Pip whether she was as insulting to him as she was the last time he was there. What does she do to Pip when he answers no?

8. Miss Havisham shows Pip a large banquet table, with a ruined and ancient meal on it. For what celebration was the table set long ago?

9. What does Miss Havisham say will be laid on the table someday?

10. For what occasion had Miss Havisham's visitors come to see her?

11. What does Miss Havisham make Pip do with her the entire time of the visit?

12. What does the "pale young gentleman" want to do with or to Pip?

13. What does Estella allow Pip to do to her before he leaves?

14. What is "Old Clem"?

15. Who or what does Miss Havisham want to see at the end of chapter 12?

16. What odd thing does Joe do every time he is asked a question by Miss H?

17. What does Miss H give Joe during his visit? For what purpose?

18. Why do Pip and company go to Town Hall?

19. As a young child, what were Pip's feelings about being a blacksmith?

20. What has caused the change in Pip's feelings towards Joe and his profession?

21. In chapter 15, Pip tells Joe he wants to visit Miss H. What does Joe say is the danger in Pip doing this?

22. Give the name of the journeyman Joe employs at the forge.

23. What does the journeyman ask for from Joe?

24. With whom does the journeyman get into a loud shouting match?

25. How is the argument settled between Joe and the journeyman?

26. Who answers the gate at Miss H's when Pip visits?

27. Where is Estella?

28. What unexpected discovery is made at the end of Chapter15?

29. Who does Pip suspect in this violent deed?

30. Who came to tend to Mrs. Joe?

31. Who does Mrs. Joe request to see? What does she draw on her slate to communicate this?

32. In chapter 17, Pip describes a change he sees in Biddy. What is the nature of this change?

33. Pip tells Biddy in confidence he wishes to be a "gentleman". What is his reason for wanting this?

34. Who do the pair meet while walking?

35. In chapter 18, Joe and Pip meet another stranger. What is this stranger's name? What is the stranger's occupation?

36. What two words does the stranger use to describe his news for Pip?

37. What is Pip to do with the fortune assigned to him by his unknown benefactor? (define benefactor!)

38. To what TWO conditions must Pip agree to receive his fortune?

39. Who does Pip think is his unknown benefactor?

40. What is the full name of Pip's new tutor?

41. To where must Pip move to take his new life position?

42. What is it that Pip asks Biddy to do for Joe that causes her to become very angry with Pip?

43. What is the merchant's name that Pip sees to purchase his new wardrobe?

44. Who else does Pip meet who now has a much-changed attitude towards him? What has caused this change?

45. In what unusual way does Pip choose to say goodbye to Miss Havisham on his last visit with her?

Explain or define the following.

a. The Three Jolly Bargemen

b. "Two one pound notes"

c. "toadies and humbugs"

d. Sarah Pocket

e. "This is where I will be laid when I am dead. They shall come and look at me here"

f. "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!"

g. "a pale young gentleman"

h. "Old Clem"

i. "It's five-and-twenty pound"

j. "When I went to Lunnon town, sirs, / Too rul loo rul/ Too rul loo rul"

k. Dolge Orlick

l. "(She) came to us with a small speckled box containing the whole of her worldly effects, and became a blessing to the household"

m. "(She) had traced upon the slate a character that looked like a curious T"

n. "Do you want to be a gentleman to spite her or to gain her over? Because if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over"

o. "She was much against his going with us, and said to me in a whisper, 'Don't let him come. I don't like him'"

p. "The stranger did not recognize me, but I recognized him as the gentleman I had met on the stairs on the occasion of my second visit to Miss Havisham"

q. Mr. Matthew Pocket

r. Mr. Trabb