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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Chapter 1: “Story of the Door”

Chapters 2–3

Chapters 4–5

Chapters 6–7

Chapter 8: “The Last Night”

Chapter 9: “Dr. Lanyon's Narrative”

Chapter 10: “Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case”

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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1. What is Utterson's profession?

(A) Lawyer

(B) Doctor

(D) Detective

2. With whom does Utterson take a weekly walk?

(A) Jekyll

(B) Lanyon

(D) Poole

3. What did Enfield see Hyde do late one night?

(A) Break into Jekyll's house

(B) Trample a girl

(D) Steal bread

4. Whom does Jekyll's will initially specify as his heir?

(A) Poole

(B) Lanyon

(D) Hyde

5. Why has Lanyon and Jekyll's friendship cooled?

(A) They had a dispute over Jekyll's scientific inquiries

(B) They both fell in love with the same woman

(D) Jekyll stole Lanyon's research

6. How does Utterson first meet Hyde?

(A) He goes to Hyde's home

(B) They meet at a dinner party

(D) Hyde comes to Utterson with a legal question

7. How do the characters in the novel describe Hyde?

(A) They cannot describe him; they are struck by lightning when they utter his name

(B) They say he is ugly and deformed but cannot say exactly why

(D) They say he has an ugly scar across his face

8. When Utterson tells Jekyll that he has “been learning something of young Hyde," how does Jekyll respond?

(A) He laughs and says that Utterson is lying

(B) He claims never to have met Hyde

(D) He turns pale and begs Utterson to change the subject

9. What does a servant girl witness from a window?

(A) Hyde murdering Sir Danvers Carew

(B) Jekyll and Hyde meeting in secret

(D) Hyde trampling a little child

10. Who leads the police to Hyde's home?

(A) Jekyll

(B) A servant girl

(D) Enfield

11. What is Poole's position?

(A) He is Jekyll's lab assistant

(B) He is Jekyll's butler

(D) He is a detective

12. What happens to Hyde after the Carew murder?

(A) His body is found in the river

(B) He flees the country

(D) He disappears

13. What happens to Jekyll after the Carew murder?

(A) He becomes more sociable and devotes himself to good works

(B) He enters into a friendship with Enfield

(D) He flees the country

14. What does Mr. Guest tell Utterson about the handwriting on the letter from Hyde?

(A) It has been forged

(B) It is a woman's handwriting

(D) It belongs to a left-handed person

15. What does Lanyon give Utterson before he dies?

(A) A box, not to be opened until Lanyon's death

(B) A letter, not to be opened until Jekyll's death or disappearance

(D) A mysterious vial

16. In the weeks following his dinner party, what happens to Jekyll?

(A) He slowly poisons himself

(B) He begins plotting to kill Utterson

(D) He locks himself in his laboratory and refuses to see anyone

17. Where do Enfield and Utterson see Jekyll one day during his seclusion?

(A) At Lanyon's funeral

(B) At the window of his laboratory

(D) On a foggy street

18. Who summons Utterson to Jekyll's house near the end of the novel?

(A) Enfield

(B) Jekyll himself

(D) Hyde

19. Why do the servants think that the man in the laboratory is not Jekyll?

(A) His voice is different from Jekyll's

(B) Jekyll is out of the country

(D) Jekyll never goes in the laboratory

20. Who does Utterson find in the laboratory after breaking down the door?

(A) Enfield

(B) No one

(D) Hyde, lying dead

21. What horrifying event does Lanyon write about having witnessed?

(A) The death of Danvers Carew

(B) Jekyll transforming into Hyde

(D) Utterson killing himself

22. Who is Hyde?

(A) Jekyll's insane brother, whom he has tried to keep locked in the attic

(B) Jekyll's son born out of wedlock

(D) Jekyll in disguise

23. What brings Hyde into being?

(A) A potion, concocted by Jekyll

(B) A magic book

(D) Incantations

24. Initially, why does Jekyll turn himself into Hyde?

(A) Poole forces him to do so

(B) He wants to escape his nagging wife

(D) He enjoys doing so

25. How does Jekyll deal with Hyde in the end?

(A) He has a priest exorcize Hyde

(B) He shoots Hyde

(D) Involuntarily, he becomes Hyde permanently, and then Hyde kills himself

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