CHAPTER 3 Quiz — Great Expectations

What is the weather like when Pip sets out across the marshes?

• Bright and sunny
• Rimy, damp, and heavily misty
• Windy with driving rain
• Snowing with bitter cold

What does Pip blurt out to the black ox that stares at him?

• "Please don't tell anyone!"
• "I couldn't help it, sir! It wasn't for myself I took it!"
• "Get out of my way, you beast!"
• "I'm only going for a walk, sir!"

How does Pip discover that the sleeping man is NOT his convict?

• The man speaks with a different voice
• The man has a different face and wears a flat broad-brimmed hat
• The man has no leg-iron
• Joe calls out a warning from nearby

What does Pip compare the convict's way of eating to?

• A starving wolf
• A large dog
• A pig at a trough
• A bird pecking at seeds

What physical detail about the second convict especially interests Pip's convict?

• His height
• A scar on his hand
• A badly bruised left cheek
• His missing teeth

What does the convict do with the remaining food when he learns about the second prisoner?

• He throws it away in anger
• He offers it to Pip as thanks
• He crams it into the breast of his grey jacket
• He buries it in the mud for later

What literary device does Dickens primarily use when the marshland seems to accuse Pip of theft?

• Dramatic irony
• Pathetic fallacy
• Allusion
• Hyperbole

What does the convict call himself that reveals his wretched self-image?

• "A lost soul"
• "A poor wretched warmint"
• "A doomed man"
• "A forgotten prisoner"

Pip successfully delivers the stolen food and file to the convict without encountering anyone else.

The convict sheds tears after calling himself a "poor wretched warmint."

In the context of this chapter, what does "rimy" mean?

• Muddy and slippery
• Covered in white frost
• Foggy and overcast
• Dry and cold

What are the "Hulks" that Pip fears being sent to?

• Large workhouses for orphans
• Decommissioned ships used as floating prisons
• Underground dungeons beneath London
• Military barracks on the coast

When the convict mutters "imprecations" at his leg-iron, what is he doing?

• Whispering prayers
• Speaking curses
• Making promises
• Singing quietly