Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 9 Quiz

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 9 questions

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1. What does Jekyll's letter beg Lanyon to do?
   Break into his cabinet and fetch a drawer · Destroy all the papers in his laboratory · Take charge of his will and his estate · Attend a patient at midnight in Soho
2. What does the drawer turn out to contain?
   A revolver, cartridges and a sealed will · A phial, a white salt and a notebook · Surgical knives and a bottle of ether · Letters in Hyde's hand and a broken cane
3. How does Lanyon arrange to receive the midnight visitor?
   He locks the drawer in the surgery · He sends his servants away for the night · He waits up alone with a revolver · He asks Utterson to sit up with him
4. How does the mixture behave once the visitor has prepared it?
   It boils over and gives off a thick white smoke · It thickens into a dark red, treacly syrup · It freezes into crystals round the glass rim · It turns bright green, then purple, then paler
5. 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

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