Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde TEST
The will was holograph, for Mr. Utterson, though he took charge of it now that it was made, had
refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it; it provided not only that, in case of the
decease of Henry Jekyll, M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., all his possessions were to pass into the
hands of his “friend and benefactor Edward Hyde,” but that in case of Dr. Jekyll’s “disappearance or
unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months,” the said Edward Hyde
should step into the said Henry Jekyll’s shoes without further delay and free from any burthen
[burden] or obligation, beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor’s
household.
1. What or who, in the above sentence, should be “free from any burthen or obligation”?
A. Henry Jekyll
B. Edward Hyde
C. Members of the doctor’s household
D. The payment
Mr. Lanyon tells Utterson: “It is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me.
He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for
old sake’s sake as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific
balderdash,” added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, “would have estranged Damon and
Pythias.” (page 14)
2. In the above passage, what is the intended meaning of the word fanciful?
A. Fancy
B. Effeminate
C. Beyond the realm of reality and/or sanity
D. Devilishly insane
3. In the above passage, what is the intended meaning of the word balderdash?
A. Nonsense
B. Nightmares
C. Proofs
D. Campaigns
4.____ In the above passage, what is the intended effect of the allusion to Damon and Pythias?
A. To emphasize the fact that unscientific balderdash like Jekyll’s should have gotten him jailed
and condemned to death.
B. To push the notion that Jekyll’s unscientific balderdash was extremely absurd, even offensive,
so much so that it would have been enough to alienate the two closest friends in ancient Greek
history.
C. To emphasize the point that unscientific balderdash is not something for which a friend should
risk his life.
D. To push the notion that such unscientific balderdash is enough to estrange even dreamy
philosophers.
Reread the following sentences from page 14: “Six o’clock struck on the bells of the church that was so
conveniently near to Mr. Utterson’s dwelling, and still he was digging at the problem. Hitherto it had
touched him on the intellectual side alone; but now his imagination also was engaged or rather enslaved;
and as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr. Enfield’s tale went
by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures.”
5.
What is the meaning of gross in these sentences?
A. Disgusting
B. Deep
C. Total
D. Grotesque
Reread the following passage and then answer the questions below:
Or else he would see a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at
his dreams; and then the door of that room would be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart,
the sleeper recalled, and lo! There would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and
even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding. (page 15)
6. When the narrator says “his friend”, to whom is he referring?
A. Jekyll
B. Hyde
C. Enfield
D. Lanyon
E. Utterson
7-26.
1) Using the first line, write either T (for true) or F (for false) for each one of the phrases.
2) Then, correct those phrases that are incorrect.
3) Finally, use the second line (_T___ / __2__) to number the events in the order that they were
described in the chapter. The first two have been done.
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_T___ / __1__ Nearly a year later in the month of October
____ / ____An old man sat dreamily looking out his upstairs, bedroom window.
____ / ____Mr. Hyde clubbed the victim with a cane.
____ / ____Utterson identified the victim as Sir Danvers Carew.
____ / ____The victim was carrying a stamped envelope addressed to Dr. Jekyll.
____ / ____You could hear the victim’s bones shatter.
____ / ____The cane was found in Mr. Hyde’s apartment.
____ / ____Mr. Hyde literally transformed into an ape!
____ / __2__We are told that the Carew Murder Case got a lot of attention from the people in London.
____ / ____The victim appeared to the witness to be kind and beautiful and in possession of an old-world
disposition.
____ / ____The cane was found fully intact in the gutter.
27-40.
Read the following excerpt from the passage carefully: “It was by this time about nine in the morning, and
the first fog of the season. A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was
continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street,
Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the
back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange
conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight
would glance in between the swirling wreaths. The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing
glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been
extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed in the
lawyer’s eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare. The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the
gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that
terror of the law and the law’s officers, which may at times assail the most honest.”
(1) Explain on the lines below how the quality of the sky in and around Soho reflects what is going on
inside Utterson’s mind. (3 points)
(2) Also, explain what sort of tone or atmosphere this scene communicates? As you explain yourself,
identify the specific words (or use of diction) that are especially effective in evoking such an
atmosphere. (3 points)
(3) Explain how this atmosphere reflects what you know of the themes and/or subject of the novella?
(4 points)
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