5.06 Unit Test: Critical Skills Practice 3

Question: In line 6, “likeness” most nearly means __________.

Answer: picture

Question: Philip Pirrip, the narrator, is known as “Pip” because __________.

Answer: “Pip” was how he pronounced his first and last names as a young child

Question: For this question, refer to the excerpt from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens on the Unit Test Reading Passages sheet.

What are the “five little stone lozenges” mentioned in line 11?

Answer: They are the gravestones of Pip’s deceased brothers.

Question: Why is Pip “afraid of it all and beginning to cry” in this passage?

Answer: He is, for the first time, aware of the world as a bleak and savage place.

Question: The author describes Pip as “the small bundle of shivers” to suggest that the boy is __________.

Answer: small and cold, and therefore quite vulnerable