Stage 3 Study Questions

Question 1

Why must Pip keep the convict’s whereabouts a secret?

Answer 1

Because he was sentenced to life in exile and coming back violates his sentence for which the penalty is death

Question 2

What is the convict’s real name? What does he go by now?

Answer 2

Able Magwitch; He goes by Provis

Question 3

Who helps Pip come up with a plan for getting the convict out of the country?

Answer 3

Herbert and Wemmick

Question 4

Who is Compeyson? What is his connection with the convict? What is his connections with Miss Havisham?

Answer 4

He is a swindler; he convinced the convict to work with him; he was Miss Havisham’s fiancée

Question 5

How does Pip learn that Estella is having dinner with Drummle?

Answer 5

Drummele is talking to a waiter in front of Pip to let him know Estella will be eating with him

Question 6

What does Miss Havisham say when Pip accuse her of leading him on to think that she was his benefactor?

Answer 6

she admits to leading him on

Question 7

Who is Estella going to marry? Why?

Answer 7

She is going to marry Drummle. Because she wanted to change her life

Question 8

`Who writes to Pip “Don’t go home?” Why?

Answer 8

Wemmick write that to Pip. Because, Pip was being watched by Compeyson, wanted to create confusion

Question 9

Wemmick finds a place for “Tom, Jack or Richard” to stay . Who is Tom Jack or Richard? Where will he stay?

Answer 9

The convict is Tom, Jack or Richard (code talk) The house with bow windows , riverside between Limehouse and Greenwich

Question 10

Who is Clara? How can you tell she is kind and selfless?

Answer 10

Clara is Herbert’s fiancée. Her kindness is seen in how she cares for her father

Question 11

Why does Mr. Wopsle glare so strangely at Pip during the performance?

Answer 11

Compeyson had been sitting behind Pip

Question 12

What idiosyncratic personal habit does Mr. Jaggers have?

Answer 12

always washing his hands

Question 13

Why does Pip think that Mollly is Estella’s mother?

Answer 13

she looks like Estella

Question 14

What does Wemmick know about Molly’s past?

Answer 14

see p. 378 She had been reied for murder of a woman, had some gypsy blood, Jaggers represented her, got an acquittal (a case that made him) she was tamed and went to work for him. she had a daughter

Question 15

How does Miss Havisham help Herbert?

Answer 15

She gives Pip the 900 pounds to buy him into business

Question 16

What does Miss Havisham reveal about how she acquired Estella? What does Miss Havisham ask Pip to sign?

Answer 16

She had asked Jaggers to find a little girls she could save from the same fate that she had. Jaggers brought him Estella when she was 2 or 3 . Estella knows nothing except that she was an orphan and adopted. On a table she asks Pip to write that his forgave her.

Question 17

Why does Pip return to Miss Havishams’s room shortly after the leaver? What does he find there?

Answer 17

Pip thought he saw miss Havisham hanging in the garden. This left him uneasy He decided to go back to check on her and found her on fire.

Question 18

How does Pip find out that Provis’s wife, like Estella’s mother was a murderess with a young daughter?

Answer 18

Provis told Herbert who told Pip Convict is Estella’s father

Question 19

Who is Estella’s father? Who does Pip tell? Why?

Answer 19

Abel Magwitch is Estella’s father. Pip tells the aforementioned because Magwitch assumed his daughter was dead.

Question 20

How did Estella end up being raised by Miss Havisham?

Answer 20

She is brought to Miss Havisham as an adoptive child by Mr. Jaggers

Question 21

How does Jaggers argue against telling the secret of Estella’s parentage? Does Pip agree? Do you agree?

Answer 21

He feels it will not do anyone any good. Pip agrees. I do not agree. It could easily be used for blackmail.

Question 22

Why do Jaggers and Wemmick order Mike out of the office?

Answer 22

He came in with a tear. “No feelings in the office.”

Question 23

Where is Herbert’s job going to take him? Why isn’t Pip surprised when Herbert announces that he will be going to the “land of the Arabian nights?”

Answer 23

Herbert is going to Cairo. Pip knows because he heard from Clariken that a branch was being established in the east, which is where Herbert is going

Question 24

Who is Sartop and what does Herbert ask him to do?

Answer 24

Sartop was one of the boarders at Herbert’s father’s house. Herbert asks him to go with Pip and Provis since Pip hurt his arm

Question 25

Why does Pip go alone to the Sluice House? What danger does he find there?

Answer 25

Sartop was one of the boarders at Herbert’s father’s house. Herbert asks him to go with Pip and Provis since Pip hurt his arm

Question 26

How does Herbert save Pip’s life?

Answer 26

He goes alone per the letter’s instructions. He finds a noose around his neck.

Question 27

Why don’t Herbert and Pip pursue Orlick?

Answer 27

They fear it will be fatal to Provis.

Question 28

How is the convict caught?

Answer 28

He ran their gallery into their boat

Question 29

How did Compeyson know where to find the convict?

Answer 29

He followed them

Question 30

What happened to Compeyson?

Answer 30

He drowned

Question 31

Why does Wemmick take Pip to church?

Answer 31

He wants to marry Miss Skiffins

Question 32

What does pip tell the convict right before the convict dies?

Answer 32

His daughter is alive, is beautiful, has made powerful friends, and is loved by Pip

Question 33

What happens to Pip after the convict dies?

Answer 33

He falls ill and is almost arrested for debts

Question 34

How does Pip learn about Miss Havisham’s will? What does he learn?

Answer 34

Joe tells him. She left most of her property to Estella, ₤4000 to Matthew, ₤25 to Sarah, ₤20 to Georgia, and ₤5 to Camilla.

Question 35

What happens to Orlick?

Answer 35

He is arrested for breaking into Pumblechook’s house

Question 36

Pip is in trouble with his creditors before he grows ill. Why isn’t he being pursued by them after he recovers?

Answer 36

Joe paid his debts

Question 37

What does Pip plan to say to Biddy? Why doesn’t he say it?

Answer 37

He plans to ask her forgiveness for being so condescending to her before and ask her to marry him, but doesn’t because she is marrying Joe.

Question 38

How does Pip spend the next eleven years after Joe’s wedding?

Answer 38

He goes east to work with Herbert

Question 39

What has Pip heard about Estella’s married life?

Answer 39

Drummle used her then died

Question 40

When and where does Pip see Estella again at the end?

Answer 40

He sees her at what remains of Satis House in late evening

Question 41

How has Estella changed? Will she part again from Pip?

Answer 41

She has aged, but her charm and majesty remain as ever. She has saddened and softened and is more friendly than before.

Question 42

What happens at the convict’s trial?

Answer 42

Jaggers appeals for a postponement but is refused. Pip held his hand. He was given the death penalty along with 32 others.