I.
Answer the questions on the basis of what is implied or stated in the
passage or introductory material that may be provided. ( 1 X 4=4)
1. Pip meets the other gentlemen Mr. Pocket tutors, Drummle and Startop, and
has dinner with the Pockets, their neighbour (Mrs. Coiler), Startop, and
Drummle.
The dinner is chaotic as :
a. Mrs. Pocket cooks badly.
b. Mrs. Pocket sleeps off.
c. Mrs. Pocket starts jumping.
d. Mrs. Pocket allows the children to play with dangerous objects.
2. As Wemmick predicted, Jaggers invites Pip and his companions (Herbert,
Startop, and Drummle) to dinner at his house. Pip notices how thoroughly
Jaggers washes his hands before leaving his office, as if he is washing away his
clients.
At dinner, Jaggers takes an unusual interest in Drummle, giving him the
nickname
a. “the spider.”
b. “the bat”
c. “the cockroach”
d. “the ant”
3. Pip travels by coach through London to Mr. Jaggers’s office and is told
byJaggers’s clerk that the lawyer is in court. He waits in Jaggers’s office and
then walks around Little Britain,passing Newgate Prison, and returning finally to
see a string of clients waiting for Jaggers.
Jaggers briefly meets with Pip and tells him to go to Wemmick:
a. when he falls sick
b. when he needs money
c. when he is hungry
d. when he is in trouble
4. Pip notices that Biddy is growing into a sweet-tempered, good young woman,
though she will never be as beautiful as Estella. When they go walking on
Sunday, he seems to be romantically attracted to her, but he confides in her that
he is dissatisfied working at the forge and wants to become a gentleman.
He also admits that :
a. he admires the beautiful Estella.
b. he admires Biddy.
c. he admires Flopson
d. he admires Mrs.Pocket
II Match the characters/placeswith their description : (1 x 4 = 4)
He will also serve as Pip’s new
guardian.He is dark, pragmatic,
professional, and arrogant.
a fine hotel and
restaurant in the Miss Havisham’s jealous
village catering to brother who conspired with
wealthy patrons a friend to have her
Blue Boar abandoned by her fiancé
on her wedding day many
years ago.(c)__Arthur___
the household nurse who takes care of the children
and who—though often exasperated by the
constant chaos—seems much more competent
than Mrs. Pocket. d)Flopson_
III. Study the given chart carefully and complete it. (1 x 4 =4)
Pip’s expectations deflate
Pip anticipates luxurious when Wemmick takes him
accommodations like those to Barnard’s Inn.
found at the Blue Boar
At the Inn Pip recognizes
Barnard’s Inn Herbert Pocket as the ‘pale
young gentleman’ he first
At Barnard’s Inn met at Satis House
Pip stays with
Herbert Pocket
Its appearance shocks Pip who
expects luxurious accommodation.
IV Fill in the blanks: (1 x 4 =4)
a) The area in London where Jaggers worked was Little Britain
b) Mr. Jaggers is the lawyer who tells Pip and Joe the details of Pip’s new, great expectations.
c) Blue Boar was an unwholesome, stale old inn with wet rot and dry rot where Pip stays with
Herbert Pocket.
d) Jaggers’s sullen housekeeper Molly was a mysterious woman of about forty who reminded
Pip of the witches in Macbeth
V Complete the flow chart given below: (1 x 4 =4)
Pip
Fourth year of Apprenticeship-Pip’s life and expectations made a dramatic shift.
a) He met the lawyer Mr Jaggers in London.
An anonymous patron wanted to bestow huge property on Pip.
b) Mr Jaggers sent Pip to London to become a gentleman.
c) Pip reached London and is both overwhelmed by the size of the city
and disgusted by its narrow and dirty roads
d) Pip believes that Ms Havisham is his benefactor
