The Gothic Novel: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Test Answers

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Between these two, I now felt I had to choose. Now read the excerpt from Darcy’s essay on Dr. Jekyll. In the story, Dr. Jekyll repeatedly talks about having only two choices. Yet I know from my own experience that there are usually many options to choose from when dealing with human behavior—not just good or evil. This leads me to conclude that Dr. Jekyll had a strict, uncompromising, black-and-white view of the world that didn’t leave room for half measures and shades of gray. In this excerpt, Darcy is

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Between these two, I now felt I had to choose. My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them. Jekyll (who was composite) now with the most sensitive apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto, projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit. To summarize this excerpt correctly, what is the main event the reader should include?

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught. The excerpt confirms the prediction that

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless. The most likely reason the author included this excerpt from Jekyll’s point of view is to

Which line from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde best characterizes Dr. Jekyll as ill?

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms. This excerpt is part of the plot’s

Read the passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older; and yet it was not so much these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer’s notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind. What internal conflict is implied by Lanyon’s illness?

Read the excerpt from Alex’s essay on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The theme "Secrets isolate people from those around them” is repeated throughout the story. Dr. Jekyll isolates himself for mysterious reasons. Then, Dr. Lanyon isolates himself because of something that happened between him and Dr. Jekyll that he won’t talk about. In his essay, Alex is analyzing the

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. "I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.” Which theme is introduced in this exposition?

Read the three excerpts from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted. Mr. Utterson again walked some way in silence and obviously under a weight of consideration. "You are sure he used a key?” he inquired at last. That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish. As Mr. Utterson’s character develops, he becomes more

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Poole disinterred the axe from under a stack of packing straw; the candle was set upon the nearest table to light them to the attack; and they drew near with bated breath to where that patient foot was still going up and down, up and down, in the quiet of the night. "Jekyll,” cried Utterson, with a loud voice, "I demand to see you.” He paused a moment, but there came no reply. "I give you fair warning, our suspicions are aroused, and I must and shall see you,” he resumed; "if not by fair means, then by foul—if not of your consent, then by brute force!”

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test of practice. I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change. The excerpt is a good example of suspense because it

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature. In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. This excerpt helps resolve the plot by revealing Dr. Jekyll’s conflicts

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. The mood of this excerpt can best be described as

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes. "I do not care to hear more,” said he. "This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop.” "What I heard was abominable,” said Utterson. "It can make no change. You do not understand my position,” returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner. "I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange—a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.” The direct characterization of Dr. Jekyll implies that he is

Read the summary of chapters 3 and 4 from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In chapter 3, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson argue about Dr. Jekyll’s association with Mr. Hyde, as well as Dr. Jekyll’s will. Dr. Jekyll faces an internal struggle over the issue but nevertheless convinces Mr. Utterson to drop it. However, in chapter 4, Mr. Hyde murders a man. Despite his loyalty to Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Utterson must give Hyde’s name to the police and help with the investigation. Which literary elements are included in the summary? Choose two correct answers.

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . "You know I never approved of it," pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic. "My will? Yes, certainly, I know that," said the doctor, a trifle sharply. "You have told me so." "Well, I tell you so again," continued the lawyer. "I have been learning something of young Hyde.” The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes. "I do not care to hear more," said he. "This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop.” "What I heard was abominable," said Utterson. "It can make no change. You do not understand my position," returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner. Which is the most accurate summary of the excerpt?

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Which pronouns act as the object in a sentence? Choose three correct answers.

Read the sentence. Leonie jogged through the cool morning mist. What type of pronoun should the writer replace Leonie with?