Unit Test Answers

Answers will vary. Upon receiving a dinner invitation from Dr. Jekyll, Utterson realizes that the same hand wrote both letters. Utterson learns that Jekyll has forged the letter from Hyde.

Dr. Lanyon becomes very ill, refuses to speak of Dr. Jekyll and considers Jekyll dead, Dr. Lanyon dies.

Answers will vary. Dr. Jekyll seems to want to go for a walk but says it would be impossible. Following the invitation, Utterson and Enfield invite Jekyll to talk with them from where he is. A look of terror comes across Jekyll’s face and the window slams shut.

Answers will vary. The “wild” nature of the weather parallels the wild happenings in the life of Dr. Jekyll. The fact that it is a cold night also is appropriate as we discover only Mr. Hyde in the cabinet and he is a cold-blooded man.

Answers will vary. Rational, because it is the ultimate mental and spiritual torment and there really could be no other way to end it. Furthermore, because Hyde was so completely taking over, Jekyll had to kill himself to rid the world of Hyde. Hasty, because it is the ultimate end. Perhaps using the same scientific prowess that lead to the creation of the first chemical concoction, Dr. Jekyll could have come up with a new chemical to forever silence Hyde.

Answers will vary. Some will be confident that Edward Hyde will no longer bother Dr. Jekyll because of the severity of the crime. After murdering a member of parliament, one would probably want to stay in hiding. Others will say no because the novel is only half done and it wouldn’t make much sense for a title character to no longer appear this early in the novel.

Edward Hyde is a second persona hiding within Dr. Jekyll. Furthermore, after the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, Hyde must go further into hiding and even disappears for a number of months.

Utterson and Poole find things laid out for tea, neatly stacked papers and chemicals in the press. They also find the body of Edward Hyde, at first twitching, but later dead. The two find a new will and a letter to Mr. Utterson stating that Dr. Jekyll has disappeared.

Answers will vary. Enfield tells Utterson a tale of a young girl being trampled by a “deformed” man. Luckily Enfield was able to capture the attacker before he could escape. Not wanting to cause a scene, the man offers to pay a large sum of money to keep the whole ordeal quiet. They agree that the man must pay the girl’s family 100 pounds. The man quickly rushes into the door and returns with 10 pounds in gold and a check for the other 90 pounds. The “deformed” man is Edward Hyde.

Dr. Lanyon watched Edward Hyde drink a chemical concoction and become Dr. Jekyll.

Answers will vary. Both Enfield and Utterson suspect that Edward Hyde is blackmailing Henry Jekyll. Enfield believes this is the case because the check that was written to keep the trampling quiet was endorsed by Dr. Jekyll, a well respected man. Utterson believes blackmail is involved because of the stipulation found in Jekyll’s will.

Answers will vary. Mr. Hyde is deformed. No one seems able to pinpoint what exactly makes Hyde’s appearance deformed but everyone agrees that there is something not right about his appearance.

Answers will vary. Some will be very pleased with the full explanation of the events. The last two chapters fill in many holes to the plot and offer answers to the chronology of the story. Others will be disappointed by the conclusion because it is anticlimactic after the events of chapter 8 when Utterson and Poole broke down the door and found the body of Hyde.

Jekyll says that because he was from a wealthy family and because of his good education, he gained the respect of all who knew him. He said that he was sometimes too spirited which annoyed him but others admired.

Answers will vary. Jekyll used Hyde occasionally at first but as time passed, he used the drug more and more often. Jekyll enjoyed his time as Hyde at first because he could act in unsavory ways, but as Hyde’s behavior became more vicious, he began to feel guilty. In the end, taking the drug was not a choice, but a necessity.