Part 5: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Summary and Plot Development
Question 8 of 20 • Common Core ELA 12 - ELA3012 B-IC
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Twelve o’clock had scarce rung out over London, ere the knocker sounded very gently on the door. I went myself at the summons, and found a small man crouching against the pillars of the portico."Are you come from Dr. Jekyll?” I asked.He told me "yes” by a constrained gesture; and when I had bidden him enter, he did not obey me without a searching backward glance into the darkness of the square. There was a policeman not far off, advancing with his bull’s eye open; and at the sight, I thought my visitor started and made greater haste.