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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Great Expectations: study questions

1. How did Philip Pirrip obtain the nickname Pip?

2. Where does Pip live and with whom?

3. Who does Pip meet while looking at his parents gravestones?

4. What does Pip do for the convict?

5. Who does Pip see when he returns to the gravestones?

6.  Why is Pip overwhelmed with guilt?

7. Why do the police officers burst into Pip's home?

8. Why does Pip think they come in his house?

9. Who does Pip help the police look for?

10. Who does Pip meet that he finds beautiful?



Answer Key

1. He couldn't pronounce his full name. 

2. He lives in England in with his sister and her husband. 

3. Pip meets an escaped convict.

4. He gets him food and a file to saw off his chains. 

5. He sees another escaped convict.

6. He feels guilty for helping an escaped convict.

7. They want his sisters husband to fix their handcuffs.

8. He thinks they have come to arrest him.

9. The escaped convict who he had previously helped.

10. Estella

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