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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” — Unit test

Question 21 • NY-Common Core ELA 12

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.. . . and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror."O God!" I screamed, and "O God!" again and again; for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll!

Answer
A
Lanyon knew that Hyde killed Jekyll.
B
Lanyon is now Hyde’s prisoner.
C
Jekyll is trying to hurt Lanyon.
D
Jekyll and Hyde are the same person.

Explanation

Lanyon is terrified because he has just witnessed Hyde change back into Henry Jekyll. The description of Jekyll appearing “like a man restored from death” shows that the two men are not separate people: Hyde and Jekyll are the same person.

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