Study Questions

Questions

1.How did Pip gain such a name?

2.Why does the convict, whom jumped out of the bushes at Pip, request a file?

3.How is the scene with the policeman bursting through Pip's door ironic?

4.What advice does Joe give to Pip after he learns that Pip has lied about his experience at the Satis House?

5.Why does Pip decide to focus more on his schooling and even take on an extra class?

6.What does Pip hope to get out of visiting with Miss Havisham and Estella?

7.To Pip's dissappointment, what title does he earn?

8.How did Orlick frighten Pip as a child?

9.What tragic accident occurs to Mrs Joes?

10.What unruly trait does Pip develop as he learns he will soon inherit a fortune and become a gentleman?

Answers

1.Pip, really named Philip Pirrip, was unable to pronounce his own name as a child and thus decided to call himself Pip.

2.The convict plans to use the file to saw away his leg irons, or shackles.

3.This scene is ironic because the reader expects Pip to be in trouble because he helped covicts escape, but surprisingly and unexpectedly, the policemen end up recruiting Joe and Pip to help them capture these escaped convicts.

4.Joe tells Pip to keep company with his own class for the present and that he can succeed someday only if he takes an honest path.

5.He realizes he doesn't want to be seen as just a "common" person to people like Estella.

6.Pip hopes Miss Havisham will raise him from his low social standing and give him a gentleman’s fortune.

7.Pip earns the title of apprentice rather than gentleman.

8.When Pip was younger, Orlick convinced him that the devil lived inside the Forge.

9.Mrs. Joe is attacked and shot, leaving her unable to speak.

10.Pip becomes a snob.