1 Name Date Period Great Expectations- Part 3 Study Guide Part I Directions: Answer the following questions based on Part 3 of Great Expectations in complete detailed sentences. 1. How does the tone of the novel change in this chapter? 2. What is the real reason Jaggers would not disclose the name of the benefactor? Look on pages 195-196 for evidence to support your response. 3. What is the significance of Abel Magwitch s name? 4. Why does Pip feel it will be difficult to disguise Magwitch? 5. Summarize what Jaggers said to warn Magwitch. 6. What does Magwitch tell Herbert?
2 7. What can Pip do for money (as work) if he can no longer accept money from Magwitch? 8. Explain Pip s ambivalence or mixed emotions toward Magwitch. What does this say about Pip s character? 9. What is humorous about the way Magwitch begins his life story? Why does Dickens choose to include humor in this chapter? 10. Summarize Magwitch s backstory. 11. Who was Arthur? What does Herbert confirm for us? 12. What is the significance of Arthur s hallucination? What does it reveal?
3 13. Based on the information given on pages 204-205, describe the relationship between Compeyson and Magwitch. 14. What are Pip s worries? 15. What is the significance of Estella going to Satis House without asking Pip to accompany her? 16. Summarize the conversation between Drummle and Pip. Is it a positive one? How so? 17. Why is implying when he says to Pip, But don t lose your temper. Haven t you lost enough without that? 18. Who does Drummle remind Pip of? Why?
4 19. Pages 210-213 serves as the climax of Pip and Estella s plot. Describe what has happened. 20. What information does Pip disclose to Miss Havisham? How has his tone changed towards her? What has caused this change in Pip s behavior? 21. What evidence does Pip present in his confrontation with Miss Havisham? List all 3! 22. What does Pip tell Estella that shows he has a good heart and only wants to see her happy? 23. What does Pip receive when he arrives home? 24. Who was responsible for the note to Pip? 25. Wemmick and Pip have a talk about Magwitch in code. Summarize this talk.
5 26. Why is this an ideal place to put Magwitch? 27. What is the last piece of advice Wemmick offers? 28. Dickens establishes the character of Clara s father without us the reader ever meeting him. Describe him. 29. What is Pip s impression of Clara after finally meeting her? 30. How does Magwitch respond to the warnings and advice Pip relays? 31. What is Herbert s plan? 32. Even though Pip is an immense amount of debt, why doesn t he use any more money from Magwitch?
6 33. Pip attends one of Wopsle s performances. What startling discovery is made? 34. How does Pip get Wopsle to identify who was sitting by him (Pip) at the performance? Who ultimately was it? 35. What does Miss Havisham s note say? 36. What does Jaggers mean by his speech on page 229 with Drummle playing cards? What is foreshadowed about Estella s future with her husband? 37. What realization does Pip come to about Molly? How does this come about? 38. Pip questions Wemmick about Molly. What is her backstory as described on pages 232-233? 39. How does Dickens create reader sympathy for Miss Havisham? (See page 234!)
7 40. What does Miss Havisham offer to do for Pip? What is the condition attached to it? 41. What does Miss Havisham ask of Pip? 42. How did Estella come to live with Miss Havisham? 43. What is the significance (symbolism) of the fire that destroys Miss Havisham s wedding dress? 44. What is significant (symbolism) about the fact that Pip is also burned in the fire? 45. What do we learn about Magwitch s wife? Who s situation is this similar to? (Connect the dots!)
8 46. What conclusion has Pip come to? 47. How does Compeyson tie into all of this? 48. What is Dickens trying to tell us by bringing up Estella s biological parents? 49. What is Jaggers side of the story? 50. What is Jaggers reasons for keeping the secret? 51. Now that the purchase of Herbert s partnership is complete, what may happen? 52. For what purpose does Dickens have the innkeeper tell Pip the story of Pumblechook and the ungrateful boy? (Refer to page 250) 53. What is going to happen on Wednesday? Who is going to be participating in this event?
9 54. What does the mysterious note to Pip say? 55. When Pip arrives at his house, what happens to him? Who has done it? 56. What is Orlick s motivation for this attack? 57. What is Pip s main concern about what Orlick has threatened? 58. What is significant about the fact that Pip calls Magwitch Estella s father? 59. List three mysteries Orlick solves for Pip while he is working up the courage to kill him. 60. What happens to suggest that Pip is not finished with Orlick and Compeyson?
10 61. Explain how the chapter (33) ends on an optimistic note? 62. Summarize Pip s plan to get Magwitch out of England. 63. How does the change in imagery/setting reflect a change in mood? 64. The helper at the inn warns the four of something. What is it? What does it mean? (Refer to page 261). 65. What happens as the steamer approaches? 66. Who is the man in the other galley wrapped in the great coat?
11 67. What happens to Magwitch? What happens to Compeyson? 68. What evidence is there to suggest that Magwitch is telling the truth when he says he did not kill Compeyson? 69. What is ironic about the confiscation of Magwitch s purse? 70. What will happen to all of Magwitch s money and possessions? 71. Where is Herbert going to work? 72. What is ironic about Herbert s offering Pip the position of clerk in his eastern office? 73. What does Wemmick surprise Pip with? How does Pip feel about this?
12 74. What injuries did Magwitch sustain when he fell out of the boat? 75. What verdict does the judge give Magwitch? What does Pip do after the judge sentences Magwitch? 76. What does Pip tell Magwitch before he dies? Why does he do this? 77. Because of Pip dedicating so much to writing petitions and sitting with Magwitch in the previous chapter, what has happened to him? 78. Who comes to care for Pip? What purpose does Dickens achieve by having this person nurse Pip through his illness? 79. What has happened to Miss Havisham and her estate?
13 80. What has happened to Orlick? 81. Why does Joe begin to call Pip sir when Pip begins to regain his strength? 82. What does Joe leave in his farewell letter to Pip? 83. Who does Pip decide to ask to marry him? 84. What is the purpose of this chapter (38)? 85. When Pip returns to his village and the Blue Boar, how do the townspeople treat him? 86. What is happening/has happened to Satis house? 87. Describe Pip s confrontation of Pumblechook. What does Pumblechook still believe? 88. Pip returns on a very special day in the lives of Biddy and Joe. What is it?
14 89. What does Pip beg Joe and Biddy to do? 90. What does Pip do after he leaves Joe and Biddy? 91. How many years go by before Pip sees Joe and Biddy again? 92. What new additions have happened to Joe and Biddy? 93. Why does Dickens have Pip take his namesake to the churchyard? 94. What has happened to Estella? What has happened to Drummle? 95. Pip returns to what used to be the Satis house. Who does he find walking there? What is ironic about this situation? What happens as a result of this encounter? 96. Explain the ambiguity of the ending of the novel.