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

His friend Herbert refuses to call him Philip, saying it 'sounds like a moral boy out of the spelling-book', and gives him a musical nickname instead.

Q 02/05

In which weekly periodical, owned by Dickens himself, was the novel 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

Dickens 'struck in' with the story to rescue the magazine's falling sales after Charles Lever's A Day's Ride flopped with readers.

Q 03/05

Where does the novel 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

Seven-year-old Pip is visiting his parents' graves on Christmas Eve 1812 when an escaped convict seizes him.

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

Pip steals a file from Joe's tools plus a pork pie and brandy meant for Christmas dinner; the convict later confesses to the theft to clear him.

Q 05/05

What is the trade of Joe Gargery, Pip's kindly brother-in-law?

A) Cooper

B) Wheelwright

C) Miller

D) Blacksmith

Answer · why

D) Blacksmith

Pip is apprenticed to him and once dreamed of nothing better, before Miss Havisham's house teaches him to be ashamed of the forge.