CHAPTER 57 Quiz — Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Comprehension Quiz: CHAPTER 57

What is Pip's financial situation at the beginning of Chapter 57?

  • He has just received a large inheritance
  • He is deeply in debt with scarcely any money
  • He is comfortable but anxious about the future
  • He has been declared bankrupt by a court

How much does Pip owe when the men come to arrest him?

  • Fifty pounds, ten shillings
  • Two hundred pounds even
  • One hundred and twenty-three pounds, fifteen shillings, sixpence
  • Ninety pounds, three shillings

Why do the arresting officers leave Pip in his chambers?

  • Pip bribes them to go away
  • Joe threatens them
  • Pip is too ill to be moved and says he will die on the way
  • A lawyer arrives and posts bail

During his delirium, what does Pip hallucinate about Miss Havisham?

  • That she is standing at the foot of his bed
  • That she is consuming within a closed iron furnace
  • That she is calling his name from the marshes
  • That she is laughing at him from Satis House

What recurring pattern does Pip notice as his fever progresses?

  • Every sound becomes the voice of Estella
  • All faces around him eventually resolve into Joe's face
  • He keeps seeing Magwitch standing in the doorway
  • The room repeatedly transforms into the marshes

Who told Joe to go to Pip when they heard he was ill?

  • Herbert Pocket
  • Wemmick
  • Biddy
  • Jaggers

What evidence in Chapter 57 shows that Biddy has been educating Joe?

  • Joe reads a newspaper aloud to Pip
  • Joe uses correct grammar throughout the chapter
  • Joe sits down to write a letter to Biddy
  • Joe quotes Shakespeare to comfort Pip

According to Joe, how did Miss Havisham's will distribute her estate?

  • Everything went to Pip as her adopted son
  • It was divided equally among all relatives
  • Most went to Estella, with four thousand pounds to Matthew Pocket
  • The entire estate was left to charity

Why was Miss Havisham's bequest to Matthew Pocket especially meaningful to Pip?

  • Matthew was Pip's closest friend in London
  • It validated the one good thing Pip felt he had done with his influence
  • Matthew had lent Pip money when he needed it
  • Pip had been named executor of her will

What happened to Orlick, according to Joe's news?

  • He fled to Australia
  • He was hanged for murder
  • He broke into Pumblechook's house and was jailed
  • He became a successful merchant

What troubling change does Pip notice in Joe as Pip recovers?

  • Joe becomes angry and resentful
  • Joe starts drinking heavily
  • Joe gradually reverts to calling Pip 'sir' instead of 'old chap'
  • Joe stops visiting Pip's room

What does Joe's farewell note say?

  • 'I am angry and will not return.'
  • 'Not wishful to intrude I have departured fur you are well again dear Pip.'
  • 'Gone to see Biddy. Will return next week.'
  • 'You owe me nothing. Forget the forge.'

What does Pip discover enclosed with Joe's farewell letter?

  • A train ticket to the forge
  • A receipt showing Joe paid off Pip's debt
  • A letter from Biddy
  • Money for Pip's journey home

What is Pip's 'reserved Secondly' -- his plan at the end of Chapter 57?

  • To sail to Egypt with Herbert
  • To return to the forge and propose marriage to Biddy
  • To find Estella and declare his love
  • To become a lawyer under Jaggers

What is the primary theme demonstrated by Joe's behavior throughout Chapter 57?

  • The corrupting influence of wealth
  • The importance of social advancement
  • Unconditional loyalty and true gentility of character
  • The dangers of naive trust

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