Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Quiz

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 questions

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1. How does Jekyll describe his own beginnings at the start of his statement?
   Born the son of a country clergyman · Born to a large fortune and good prospects · Born to a poor family in the far north · Born to a name he could not live up to
2. What conclusion about human nature does Jekyll reach from his experiments?
   That conscience is only a social habit · That science can perfect the human will · That man is not truly one, but truly two · That evil destroys the good in the end
3. Why is Hyde smaller, slighter and younger than Jekyll?
   The drug reversed the ageing of the body · Hyde was modelled on Jekyll in youth · The dose Jekyll first took was too small · Jekyll's evil side was the less exercised part
4. What first warns Jekyll that the change no longer waits on his choice?
   He wakes in his own bed as Hyde · Lanyon refuses to send him the salt · He forgets the formula for the tincture · Poole finds him asleep in the cabinet
5. 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

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