CHAPTER 54 Quiz — Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Comprehension Quiz: CHAPTER 54

From where do Pip, Herbert, and Startop launch their boat?

  • Gravesend dock
  • Billingsgate wharf
  • Temple stairs
  • Mill Pond stairs

How is Magwitch disguised when he boards the boat?

  • As a river pilot
  • As a customs officer
  • As a merchant sailor
  • As a gentleman traveler

Which two steamers do the group plan to hail for Magwitch's escape?

  • The Dover and the Calais
  • The London and the Paris
  • The Liverpool and the Bristol
  • The Hamburg and the Rotterdam

What suspicious information does the Jack at the tavern share?

  • Police are searching the nearby villages
  • A four-oared galley with two passengers has been hovering on the river
  • A reward poster for Magwitch has been posted
  • Customs officers questioned the landlord about strangers

What does Pip observe from his window during the night?

  • The police galley anchored nearby
  • Compeyson walking along the causeway
  • A signal fire on the opposite bank
  • Two men inspecting their boat

What does Magwitch compare to the unseen bottom of the river?

  • The mystery of Compeyson's whereabouts
  • The unknowable future
  • His past crimes
  • The depth of his love for Pip

Who is the cloaked figure revealed in the police galley?

  • Wemmick
  • Orlick
  • Jaggers
  • Compeyson

What causes Pip's boat to capsize?

  • Magwitch rocking the boat during the struggle
  • A collision with a river barge
  • The galley ramming them as the steamer bears down
  • A sudden storm on the Thames

What happens to Compeyson after falling overboard?

  • He drowns and his body is never found during the chapter
  • He is rescued by the galley crew
  • He is captured and manacled alongside Magwitch
  • He swims to shore and escapes

What injuries does Magwitch sustain in the collision?

  • Burns from the steamer's engine
  • A broken arm and leg
  • A shoulder wound from the officer's weapon
  • A severe chest injury and a deep head wound

What realization does Pip have about Magwitch's fortune?

  • Herbert has secretly invested it abroad
  • Miss Havisham has claimed it as her own
  • It will be forfeited to the Crown upon conviction
  • It has already been transferred to Pip's account

To whom does Pip compare himself unfavorably at the end of the chapter?

  • Joe
  • Herbert
  • Estella
  • Miss Havisham

Which literary device does Dickens use by repeating "Still in the same moment" during the capture scene?

  • Chiasmus
  • Epistrophe
  • Polysyndeton
  • Anaphora

What does the Jack at the tavern believe the four-oared galley belongs to?

  • River pirates
  • The Royal Navy
  • Smugglers
  • The Custom House (customs officers)

What decision does Pip make about Magwitch's knowledge of the lost fortune?

  • To ask Jaggers to find a legal loophole
  • To tell Magwitch immediately so he can make arrangements
  • To let Magwitch die without ever knowing his money would be forfeited
  • To write Magwitch a letter explaining everything

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