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58 Great Expectations for ELT
TEST ANSWER KEYS
TEST 1
ANSWER KEY:
1 1 him 2 and 3 stranger 4 looked / stared 5 room 6 However 7 way / manner
8 blacksmith 9 this 10 lonely 11 Just / Only 12 ever 13 looked 14 had 15 After
2 1 A friend / fellow convict of Pip’s prisoner.
2 Pip’s prisoner has sent him to give something to Pip (Pip doesn’t know this yet).
3 He gives Pip a shilling wrapped in two pound notes.
4 Pip goes home and he and Joe show Mrs Joe the money. When they realise that there are two pound
notes, Joe takes them back to the pub, but the stranger has gone.
5 Pip is afraid of the money – it was a large amount of money in those times – and he is afraid of people
asking him questions about it.
6 Mr Wopsle is an acquaintance / friend of Joe and Mrs Joe’s from the village. He later goes to London
and becomes an actor.
7 Miss Havisham says this to Pip on her birthday.
8 Joe says this to Jaggers when the lawyer tells him and Pip about Pip’s great expectations, and offers
Joe some money for taking the boy away.
3 1 Dickens’s most autobiographical
2 the protagonist in the story
3 improve his circumstances
4 (that) his secret benefactor is
5 Miss Havisham’s (beautiful) adopted daughter
6 take revenge on
7 prejudiced against Joe
8 is / feels frustrated with / by his work
TEST 2
ANSWER KEY:
1 1 A 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 B 6 D 7 C 8 B 9 A 10 D 11 B 12 C
2 1 Jaggers, when Pip goes to ask him about Magwitch being his benefactor.
2 Provis.
3 Clara (Barley).
4 Compeyson is the man who pretended to love Miss Havisham and tricked her out of money.
5 Miss Havisham says this to Pip after Estella has married Bentley Drummle.
6 Magwitch was sent to Australia for life, and the punishment for returning is death. As a convict, he
loses all rights to personal wealth, which means that Pip cannot inherit it.
7 Pip tells the old convict that his daughter is alive and has prospered.
3 1 surroundings 2 addition 3 engaging 4 Industrial 5 Manufacturers 6 division(s)
7 thinly 8 population 9 strengthened 10 theft