Q 01/05

What is the full name of the orphan nicknamed Pip?

A) Peter Pipkin

B) Philip Pocket

C) Percival Pip

D) Philip Pirrip

Answer · why

D) Philip Pirrip

Philip Pirrip was too much for his infant tongue, which 'could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip', so Pip he called himself ...

Q 02/05

In which weekly periodical, owned by Dickens himself, was Great Expectations first serialised from December 1860?

A) Household Words

B) Bentley's Miscellany

C) The Cornhill Magazine

D) All the Year Round

Answer · why

D) All the Year Round

All the Year Round was the weekly Dickens launched in 1859 after falling out with the publishers of Household Words, which he then won in court, close...

Q 03/05

Where does Great Expectations famously open?

A) In a London courtroom

B) In a graveyard on the Kent marshes

C) In a blacksmith's forge

D) On a prison hulk in the Medway

Answer · why

B) In a graveyard on the Kent marshes

In a graveyard on the Kent marshes, Pip is studying his parents' tombstone when an escaped convict starts up from among the graves and turns him upsid...

Q 04/05

What two things does the convict demand that Pip bring him?

A) Food and a file

B) A boat and a map

C) Money and a coat

D) A pistol and a horse

Answer · why

A) Food and a file

Food and a file: Pip steals a pork pie, brandy and a file for him, and when soldiers recapture the convict he claims the theft as his own to keep the ...

Q 05/05

What is the cane Pip's fierce older sister beats him with called?

A) Rampage

B) Old Clem

C) Bolter

D) Tickler

Answer · why

D) Tickler

Tickler was 'a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame', says Pip, whose sister likes to boast that she brought him up...