This one is from the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I have attached the text and questions in PDF format too./0
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name
Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing
longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and
came to be called Pip./0
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As I never saw my father or my mother, and
never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were
long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding
what they were like were unreasonably derived from their
tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me
an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly
black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription,
“Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion
that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone
lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged
in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to
the memory of five little brothers of mine,—who gave up trying
to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,—I
am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had
all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers pockets,
and had never taken them out in this state of existence./1
a.Has Pip ever seen his mom’s picture?/2
b.How tall were Pip’s brothers when they passed away?/3
c. How did Pip come up with the idea that his father was strong?/4
c.Can Pip say with certainty that his mom was freckled?/5
d. Write a summary of the passage./6
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name
Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing
longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and
came to be called Pip./0
…/00
As I never saw my father or my mother, and
never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were
long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding
what they were like were unreasonably derived from their
tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me
an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly
black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription,
“Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion
that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone
lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged
in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to
the memory of five little brothers of mine,—who gave up trying
to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,—I
am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had
all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers pockets,
and had never taken them out in this state of existence./1
a.Has Pip ever seen his mom’s picture?/2
b.How tall were Pip’s brothers when they passed away?/3
c. How did Pip come up with the idea that his father was strong?/4
c.Can Pip say with certainty that his mom was freckled?/5
d. Write a summary of the passage./6
BASc Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
