1. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens's _____?
A:) first novel
B:) second novel
C:) third novel
D:) fourth novel
springline- Correct option: B:) second novel
2. The Great Expectation; The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.The novel , include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. When Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes ?
A:) October 1861
B:) March 1860
C:) November 1861
D:) April 1860
springline- Correct option: D:) April 1860
3. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped ____?
A:) Dolge Orlick
B:) Mrs. Joe
C:) Joe Gargery
D:) The Convict
springline- Correct option: D:) The Convict
4. During the serial publication, Dickens was pleased with public response to Great Expectations and its sales; when the plot first formed in his mind, he called it ‘a very fine, new and grotesque idea , Who praised the novel, as ‘All of one piece and consistently truthful ?
A:) T.S. Eliot
B:) George Bernard Shaw
C:) Robert Burns
D:) Thomas More
springline- Correct option: B:) George Bernard Shaw
5. Pip is an orphan, about seven years old, who lives with his hot-tempered older sister and her kindly blacksmith husband Joe Gargery, on the coastal marshes of Kent. When Pip is visiting the graves of his parents and siblings, There, he unexpectedly encounters an escaped convict who threatens him with death if he does not bring back ?
A:) 1812
B:) 1813
C:) 1814
D:) 1815
springline- Correct option: A:) 1812
6. Miss Havisham, a wealthy and reclusive spinster, asks Mr Pumblechook, a relation of the Gargerys, to find a boy to visit her. She was jilted at the altar and still wears her old wedding dress and lives in dilapidated Satis House. Pip visits Miss Havisham and falls in love with ______?
A:) Bentley Drummle
B:) Molly
C:) Estella
D:) Biddy
springline- Correct option: C:) Estella
7. Pip sets up house in London at Barnard's Inn with Herbert Pocket, the son of his tutor, Matthew Pocket, who is a cousin of Miss Havisham. Pip realizes Herbert is the boy he fought with years ago. Herbert tells Pip how Miss Havisham was defrauded and deserted by her fiancé. Pip meets fellow pupils _____?
A:) Compeyson
B:) Bentley Drummle
C:) Mrs. Joe
D:) Wemmick
springline- Correct option: B:) Bentley Drummle
8. Pip returns there to meet Estella and is encouraged by Miss Havisham, but he avoids visiting Joe. He is disquieted to see Orlick now in service to Miss Havisham. He mentions his misgivings to Jaggers, who promises Orlick's dismissal. Back in London, Pip and Herbert exchange their romantic secrets: Pip adores Estella and Herbert is engaged to _______?
A:) Clara
B:) Bitty
C:) Jaggers
D:) Able Magwitch
springline- Correct option: A:) Clara
9. Pip returns to Satis Hall to visit Estella and meets Bentley Drummle, who has also come to see her and now has Orlick as his servant. Pip accuses Miss Havisham of misleading him about his benefactor. She admits to doing so, but says that her plan was to annoy her relatives. Pip declares his love to Estella, who coldly tells him that she plans on marrying_____?
A:) Estella Havisham
B:) Bentley Drummle
C:) Joe Gargery
D:) Biddy
springline- Correct option: B:) Bentley Drummle
10. Magwitch's planned escape, Pip is tricked by an anonymous letter into going to a sluice-house near his old home, where he is seized by Orlick, who intends to murder him and freely admits to injuring Pip's sister. As Pip is about to be struck by a hammer, Herbert Pocket and Who arrive and save Pip's life ?
A:) Miss Havisham
B:) Mr. Jaggers
C:) Startop
D:) Orlick
springline- Correct option: C:) Startop
11. Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years. How many novels he wrote?
A:) 10
B:) 12
C:) 15
D:) 18
springline- Correct option: C:) 15
12. Pip is aware that Magwitch's fortune will go to the Crown after his trial. Herbert, who is preparing to move to Cairo, Egypt, to manage Clarriker's office there, offers Pip a position there. Who was in deathbed tells him that his daughter Estella is alive ?
A:) Magwitch
B:) Orlick
C:) Mr. Pumblechook
D:) Bentley Drummle
springline- Correct option: A:) Magwitch
13. In the ruins of Satis House, he meets the widowed Estella, who asks Pip to forgive her, assuring him that her misfortune, and her abusive marriage to Drummle until his death, has opened her heart. As Pip takes Estella's hand, and they leave the moonlit ruins, he sees ‘no shadow of another parting from her. After working eleven years in Egypt, Pip returns to ____?
A:) England
B:) Italy
C:) France
D:) London
springline- Correct option: A:) England
14. Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, an orphan and the protagonist and narrator of Great Expectations. In his childhood, Pip dreamed of becoming a blacksmith like his kind brother-in-law, Joe Gargery. At Satis House, about age 8, he meets and falls in love with Estella, and He tells to Whom that he wants to become a gentleman ?
A:) Orlick
B:) Biddy
C:) Molly
D:) Mathew Pocket
springline- Correct option: B:) Biddy
15. Joe Gargery, Pip's brother-in-law, and his first father figure. He is a blacksmith who is always kind to Pip and the only person with whom Pip is always honest. Joe is disappointed when Pip decides to leave his home to live in London to become a gentleman rather than be a blacksmith in business with ___?
A:) Joe
B:) Bitty
C:) Miss Havisham
D:) Herbert Pocket
springline- Correct option: A:) Joe
16. Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, whom Pip pursues. She is a beautiful girl and grows more beautiful after her schooling in France. Estella represents the life of wealth and culture for which Pip strives. Who ruined Estella's ability to love?
A:) Herbert Pocket
B:) Miss Havisham
C:) Pip
D:) Bentley Drummle
springline- Correct option: B:) Miss Havisham
17. Matthew Pocket, Miss Havisham's cousin and he is the patriarch of the Pocket family, but unlike her other relatives, he is not greedy for Havisham's wealth, and his tutors young gentlemen, such as Bentley Drummle, Startop, Pip and his own son ____?
A:) Jane Pocket
B:) Trabb
C:) Startop
D:) Herbert
springline- Correct option: D:) Herbert
18. Who is the sister of Matthew Pocket, relative of Miss Havisham. She is often at Satis House and She is described as ‘a dry, brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made out of walnut shells, and a large mouth like a cat's without the whiskers ?
A:) Bitty
B:) Jane Pocket
C:) Sarah Pocket
D:) Molly
springline- Correct option: C:) Sarah Pocket
19. The Convict, who escapes from a prison ship, whom Pip treats kindly, and who in turn becomes Pip's benefactor. His name is Abel Magwitch, but he uses the aliases ‘Provis’ and ‘Mr Campbell’ when he returns to England from exile in _____?
A:) America
B:) Australia
C:) London
D:) Italy
springline- Correct option: B:) Australia
20. Biddy, Wopsle's second cousin and near Pip's age and she teaches in the evening school at her grandmother's home in Pip's village. Pip wants to learn more, so he asks her to teach him all she can. After helping Whom, Biddy opens her own school?
A:) Raymond
B:) Clara
C:) Arthur Havisham
D:) Mrs.Joe
springline- Correct option: D:) Mrs.Joe
21. Mr Jaggers, prominent London lawyer who represents the interests of diverse clients, both criminal and civil. He represents Pip's benefactor and Miss Havisham as well. By the end of the story, his law practice links many of the characters. Who is ,Mr. Jaggers's maidservant and whom Jaggers saved from the gallows for murder ?
A:) Molly
B:) Clara
C:) Sarah
D:) Bill Barley
springline- Correct option: A:) Molly
22. Dolge Orlick, journeyman blacksmith at Joe Gargery's forge. Strong, rude and sullen, he is as churlish as Joe is gentle and kind. He ends up in a fistfight with Joe over Mrs Gargery's taunting, and Joe easily defeats him. This sets in motion an escalating chain of events that leads him secretly to assault Mrs Gargery and to try to kill her brother ___?
A:) Herbert
B:) Mr. Jaggers
C:) Pip
D:) Joe Gargery
springline- Correct option: C:) Pip
23. In 1832, at the age of 20, Dickens was energetic and increasingly self-confident. He enjoyed mimicry and popular entertainment, lacked a clear, specific sense of what he wanted to become, and yet knew he wanted fame. Drawn to the theatre – he became an early member of the _____?
A:) Garrick Club
B:) The February House Club
C:) The Mandarins
D:) The Inklings club
springline- Correct option: A:) Garrick Club
24. Dickens's approach to the novel is influenced by various things, including the picaresque novel tradition, melodrama and the novel of sensibility. According to Ackroyd, other than these, perhaps the most important literary influence on him was derived from the fables of The Arabian Nights. Which are the central to the picaresque novel ?
A:) fantasy and realism
B:) Satire and irony
C:) Ideal and Truth
D:) Irony and realism
springline- Correct option: B:) Satire and irony
25. Comedy is also an aspect of the British picaresque novel tradition of Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett. Fielding's Tom Jones was a major influence on the 19th-century novelist including Dickens, who read it in his youth and named a son Henry Fielding Dickens after him. In Great Expectations Whose bridal gown effectively doubles as her funeral shroud ?
A:) Mrs. Joe
B:) Miss Havisham
C:) Estella Havisham
D:) Clara
springline- Correct option: B:) Miss Havisham
26. Dickens’s lifelong affinity with the playwright included seeing theatrical productions of his plays in London and putting on amateur dramatics with friends in his early years. His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism. Dickens employs Which English in many of his works, denoting working-class Londoners ?
A:) Wessex
B:) Caxton
C:) East Midland
D:) Cockney English
springline- Correct option: D:) Cockney English
27. Dickens's biographer Claire Tomalin regards him as the greatest creator of character in English fiction after Shakespeare. Dickensian characters are amongst the most memorable in English literature, especially so because of their typically whimsical names. Great Expectations provides, according to Whom , ‘the more spiritual and intimate autobiography’ ?
A:) Harold Bloom
B:) Paul Schlicke
C:) George Peter
D:) Thomas Smash
springline- Correct option: B:) Paul Schlicke
28. Who maintained that ‘we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens’ as he produces ‘characters who exist not in detail, not accurately or exactly, but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealing remarks’?
A:) George Orwell
B:) Harold Bloom
C:) Virginia Woolf
D:) T.S. Eliot
springline- Correct option: C:) Virginia Woolf
29. In Dickens Book of Memoranda, begun in 1855, Dickens wrote names for possible characters: Magwitch, Provis, Clarriker, Compey, Pumblechook, Orlick, Gargery, Wopsle, Skiffins, some of which became familiar in Great Expectations. There is also a reference to a ‘knowing man’, a possible sketch of _______?
A:) Bentley Drummle
B:) Pip
C:) Estella
D:) Compeyson
springline- Correct option: A:) Bentley Drummle
30. The Great Expectation; John Forster and several early 20th century writers, including George Bernard Shaw, felt that the original ending was more consistent with the draft, as well as the natural working out of the tale. Who wrote, ‘Psychologically the latter part of Great Expectations is about the best thing Dickens ever did,’?
A:) Robert Burns
B:) T.S. Eliot
C:) Virginia Woolf
D:) George Orwell
springline- Correct option: D:) George Orwell