Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Final Test: Whole-Novella Quiz

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Whole Novella questions

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1. 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
2. Why is Utterson well suited to be the novella's lens?
   He narrates the final confession himself · He is Jekyll's physician as well as lawyer · He is the only man who ever meets Hyde · His dry discretion makes him a reliable witness
3. 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
4. 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
5. Who is beaten to death by Hyde in the street?
   Dr Hastie Lanyon, in Cavendish Square · Mr Enfield's cousin, near the river · Sir Danvers Carew, a Member of Parliament · Poole's nephew, outside the laboratory
6. 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
7. What is the real significance of the door Hyde lets himself in by?
   It is the laboratory way into Jekyll's house · It leads to the cellar where salts are kept · It opens on Lanyon's consulting room · It belongs to Hyde's own rooms in Soho
8. What does Lanyon's quarrel with Jekyll's science represent?
   Rivalry for the same wealthy patients · Orthodox medicine against forbidden inquiry · A disagreement about Hyde's treatment · A dispute over credit for a discovery
9. What part does pleasure play in Jekyll's ruin?
   He feels only disgust at every change · He becomes Hyde solely to escape debt · He enjoys the freedom and keeps going back · He uses Hyde to carry out his research
10. 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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