Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Language & structure Quiz
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson · 10 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 8 min
Test your knowledge of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with 10 language & structure questions with answers and explanations — word choice, imagery, narration and how the work is built. Ideal for revision once you have read the whole novella.
Word choice, imagery, narration and how the work is built. Drawn from the whole novella — contains spoilers.
Skills tested: Structure, Language · Difficulty: Standard, Challenge
The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.
- What do Utterson and Enfield agree before the chapter closes?
Never to mention the matter of the door again · To ask Dr Jekyll about his new friend · To take what they know to the police at once · To watch the door together the next Sunday
- 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
- How is Hyde's violence against Carew described?
With ape-like fury, trampling his victim down · With the practised calm of a trained duellist · With cold care, striking one measured blow · Like an animal driven into a tight corner
- What does Lanyon leave for Utterson, and on what condition?
A packet to be opened on the day of his funeral · A packet to open only at Jekyll's death or flight · A will naming Utterson his sole executor · A letter to be handed to Jekyll unopened
- How do Utterson and Enfield behave as they leave the court?
They argue about forcing the laboratory door · They go straight to the police with the news · They walk on in silence, deeply shaken · They agree to return the next morning
- What does Jekyll's note on the table instruct Utterson to do?
Burn the cabinet papers without reading · Fetch Lanyon to the house before morning · Say nothing to the police until the funeral · Read Lanyon's narrative before his own
- 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
- How does the novella deliver its information to the reader?
Through Jekyll's diary entries from first to last · Through letters between Lanyon and Poole · Through Utterson's search, then two written accounts · Through one narrator who knows everything
- How is Hyde's Soho set against Jekyll's own square?
Crowded with churches against empty streets · Squalid and fog-bound against wealthy order · Newly built against centuries-old houses · Quiet and genteel against noisy commerce
- 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
Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.
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