Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Challenge Quiz

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Challenge questions

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1. What does the contrast between the thriving street and the blind, blistered door suggest?
   That trade has driven the rich out of the city · That the whole district has sunk into poverty · That the building was abandoned long ago · That respectability has a neglected back entrance
2. How does Stevenson render the effect Hyde has on people who meet him?
   As an unusual height and a lurching walk · As a close family likeness to Dr Jekyll · As a gentlemanly charm that disarms critics · As a sense of deformity no one can locate
3. What does Jekyll's claim about ending the connection show?
   He says Hyde is a patient in his care · He believes he can be rid of Hyde at will · He admits Hyde has complete power over him · He denies ever having met Hyde at all
4. What makes the murder weapon personally damning for Jekyll?
   The cane came from Jekyll's laboratory bench · The cane bore Jekyll's initials on a silver band · The cane had been Utterson's own gift to him · The cane had been described in Jekyll's will
5. What does Mr Guest see when he compares the letter with Jekyll's invitation?
   The letter was written on Lanyon's paper · The ink in the letter had been newly bought · The two hands are identical but sloped apart · The signature had been traced in pencil
6. What does Lanyon's refusal to speak of Jekyll imply about what he knows?
   He has learned something he cannot name · He believes Jekyll has gone quietly mad · He has been sworn to silence by the police · He has quarrelled with Jekyll over a patient
7. What does the window scene add to the novella's picture of Jekyll?
   He has decided to confess everything · He is a prisoner in his house and his body · He has taken Hyde in as a lodger · He has recovered his health and sociability
8. Which detail about the body on the cabinet floor points to the real explanation?
   He is holding Lanyon's sealed packet · His face is the face of Henry Jekyll · He is dressed in clothes far too large for him · He is clutching half of a broken cane
9. Why does Lanyon say his days are numbered after that night?
   What he saw destroyed the science he trusted · He has drunk a little of the potion himself · Hyde has threatened to return and kill him · He has promised Jekyll to take his own life
10. Why can Jekyll no longer make the drug work at the end?
    Poole has destroyed the last of the papers · The first salt held an impurity he cannot replace · His body has grown resistant to the dose · Lanyon's death cut off his supply of chemicals
11. What does the novella suggest about Victorian respectability?
    It depends on keeping shameful appetites hidden · It had collapsed by the end of the century · It rewards men who confess their failings · It is strongest among the working classes
12. Why does Stevenson hold Jekyll's confession back to the final chapter?
    To keep Lanyon's narrative as the climax · Because the publisher wanted a longer book · Because Jekyll writes it only after Hyde dies · So the reader shares Utterson's slow discovery
13. How does the double life finally end?
    Utterson burns the confession unread · Hyde escapes and is never heard of again · Jekyll is arrested for Carew's murder · Hyde takes poison as the door is broken in

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