Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Great Expectations? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. "They took up several obviously wrong people, and they ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas, instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances." Considering this quote, what is the author's attitude toward London investigators?
They are highly regarded in their field.
He doesn't have much confidence in them.
They are very good investigators.
They are all bumbling idiots.
Q. Pip breaks a few laws, but is he a bad guy?
Of course. The law is the law and breaking it is bad.
Not really—he doesn't know any better.
Yes, he's horrible and aids terrible people.
No, he's not—we question the law, not Pip.
Q. When do we first realize that Pip's great expectations may not come true?
when he realizes that London isn't any better than anywhere else
when he sees that Miss Havisham's money doesn't make her happy
when he sees that Barnard's hotel isn't what he thought it was
when we opened the book and our own expectations were dashed
Q. Who says, "On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay," stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table but not touching it, "was brought here. It and I have worn away together. The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me"?
Estella
Miss Havisham
a London investigator
Pip
Q. What is weird about Miss Havisham's concept of time?
She has clocks everywhere and is always conscious of it.
She seems to predict time travel.
She never knows what time it is, but she's never late.
She doesn't find a use for time.