Great Expectations True or False

1. "They took up several obviously wrong people, and they ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas, instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances." Considering this quote, what is the author's attitude toward London investigators? -> They are highly regarded in their field.
2. Pip breaks a few laws, but is he a bad guy? -> No, he's not—we question the law, not Pip.
3. When do we first realize that Pip's great expectations may not come true? -> when we opened the book and our own expectations were dashed
4. Who says, "On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay," stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table but not touching it, "was brought here. It and I have worn away together. The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me"? -> Estella
5. What is weird about Miss Havisham's concept of time? -> She seems to predict time travel.

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