Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 2 Quiz

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 2 questions

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1. Which clause in Jekyll's will most disturbs Utterson?
   Poole is left the house and the laboratory · Hyde inherits if Jekyll vanishes for three months · Lanyon inherits everything if Jekyll dies abroad · The estate passes to a Soho charity on his death
2. What is Lanyon's view of Jekyll's recent scientific work?
   He says Jekyll gave up research years ago · He says he has been assisting the experiments · He calls it balderdash and has kept away · He admits he has met Jekyll's young friend
3. 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
4. Why does Utterson decide that Jekyll is being blackmailed?
   He assumes Jekyll is paying for some old sin · Hyde boasts of his hold over the doctor · Poole tells him money leaves the house weekly · He has seen Hyde forging Jekyll's signature
5. What does Utterson's pun about being "Mr Seek" reveal?
   That he finds the whole affair ridiculous · That he has made the search his private duty · That he means to hand the case to the police · That he suspects Hyde is a figure of dreams

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