Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Flashcards
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Who tells Utterson the story of the door in Chapter 1?
Enfield, Utterson’s distant kinsman, on one of their Sunday walks.
What does Hyde do to a young girl in Chapter 1?
He tramples over her at a street corner at about three in the morning.
How much does Hyde agree to pay the girl’s family?
A hundred pounds: ten in gold and a cheque for the rest.
Whose name is signed on the cheque Hyde hands over?
Henry Jekyll’s, though Enfield refuses to say the name.
What does Jekyll’s will leave to Edward Hyde?
All his possessions, if Jekyll dies or disappears for over three months.
Where does Utterson wait to catch sight of Hyde in Chapter 2?
At the door in the by-street, by day and night.
Where does Hyde tell Utterson he lives?
In Soho: he gives a street number there.
At the dinner in Chapter 3, what does Jekyll make Utterson promise?
To help Hyde and get his rights for him if Jekyll is gone.
Who witnesses the murder of Sir Danvers Carew?
A maid looking out of her window by moonlight.
What weapon does Hyde use to kill Carew?
A heavy cane, which breaks in two.
What does Carew carry that links the murder to Utterson?
A sealed, stamped letter addressed to Utterson.
Whom had Utterson originally given the murder weapon to?
Henry Jekyll, many years before.
What does the police search of Hyde’s Soho rooms turn up?
The other half of the stick and a burnt cheque book.
In Chapter 5, what does Guest notice about Hyde’s letter and Jekyll’s note?
The handwriting is almost identical, only differently sloped.
How long is Jekyll at peace and sociable after Hyde disappears?
For more than two months, before he shuts his door again.
What does Lanyon leave Utterson, to be opened only on Jekyll’s death or disappearance?
A sealed envelope: his own narrative.
What do Utterson and Enfield see at Jekyll’s window in Chapter 7?
Jekyll’s smile replaced by abject terror, before the window is slammed down.
In Chapter 8, why does Poole fetch Utterson?
He fears his master has been murdered and someone else is in the cabinet.
How do Utterson and Poole get into Jekyll’s cabinet?
Poole breaks down the door with an axe.
Whose body do they find in the cabinet?
Edward Hyde’s, in Jekyll’s clothes: a suicide.
Whose name replaces Hyde’s in the new will found in the cabinet?
Gabriel John Utterson’s.
What does Lanyon see Hyde do at midnight in Chapter 9?
Drink the potion and transform into Henry Jekyll.
Two months before the Carew murder, what does Jekyll find when he wakes up?
He has turned into Hyde in his sleep, without the drug.
After the murder, where is Jekyll sitting when he turns into Hyde without the drug?
On a bench in Regent’s Park, on a January day.
Why can Jekyll no longer change back for good?
New supplies of the salt don’t work: the first batch was impure.
What is Mr Utterson’s job?
He is a lawyer.
How is Utterson described in the novel’s first sentence?
“a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile”
What does Utterson drink when alone, to curb his taste for fine wine?
Gin.
Who is Richard Enfield?
Utterson’s distant kinsman, “the well-known man about town”.
What is Henry Jekyll’s profession?
A doctor and scientist (M.D., F.R.S.).
How old is Jekyll in Chapter 3?
About fifty.
How is Hyde’s size described?
Small: “pale and dwarfish”.
What is Hyde’s first name?
Edward.
What is Dr Lanyon’s first name?
Hastie.
Where does Dr Lanyon live and work?
Cavendish Square, “that citadel of medicine”.
What did Lanyon and Jekyll fall out over, more than ten years before?
Over Jekyll’s science, which Lanyon calls “unscientific balderdash”.
Who is Poole?
Jekyll’s butler, who has served him for twenty years.
Who is Mr Guest?
Utterson’s head clerk, an expert on handwriting.
Who is Sir Danvers Carew?
An elderly MP and Utterson’s client, murdered by Hyde.
Which Scotland Yard officer does Utterson take to Hyde’s house?
Inspector Newcomen.
Who is Bradshaw?
Jekyll’s footman.
How is the woman who keeps Hyde’s Soho house described?
Silver-haired, with “an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy”.
Which surgeon owned Jekyll’s house and theatre before him?
Dr Denman.
Which character had been Utterson’s friend at school and college?
Lanyon.
Duality: what does Jekyll say man truly is?
“not truly one, but truly two”
Duality: what does Jekyll call his life of hidden pleasures?
“a profound duplicity of life”
Good and evil: what does Jekyll say Hyde alone among mankind was?
“pure evil”
Reputation: what does Jekyll say he was thinking of when he shows Utterson Hyde’s letter?
“my own character”: his reputation.
Secrecy: what rule does Enfield follow about strange cases?
“the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.”
Secrecy: what do Utterson and Enfield agree at the end of Chapter 1?
Never to refer to the story again.
Secrecy: what is unusual about the door in Chapter 1?
It has “neither bell nor knocker”.
Violence: what does Hyde do to Carew after clubbing him?
Tramples him and rains blows until the bones are “audibly shattered”.
Violence: whom does Hyde strike in the face on the night he goes to Lanyon’s?
A woman offering him a box of lights (matches).
Science and religion: what does Utterson find Hyde has written in Jekyll’s pious book?
“startling blasphemies”, in Jekyll’s own hand.
Science: which character dies from the shock of what he has seen?
Dr Lanyon.
Addiction: whom does Jekyll compare himself to as he reasons about his vice?
A drunkard.
The supernatural: which character says he read “Satan’s signature” on Hyde’s face?
Utterson (Chapter 2).
Friendship: who does Utterson say are Jekyll’s two oldest friends?
Himself and Lanyon.
Animal imagery: what kind of fury does the maid see in Hyde?
“ape-like fury”
What is the fog in the novel often said to symbolise?
Secrecy and hidden truth.
When was The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde published?
1886.
In which city was Robert Louis Stevenson born?
Edinburgh, in 1850.
Which famous adventure novel did Stevenson publish in 1883?
Treasure Island.
Which Edinburgh councillor, a burglar by night, is linked to the novel’s idea of a double life?
Deacon William Brodie, hanged in 1788.
According to Stevenson, what gave him the idea for the story?
A dream (nightmare).
Which monarch reigned when the novel was published?
Queen Victoria.
What were cheap, sensational Victorian thrillers like this one called?
Shilling shockers.
Which Darwin book (1859) sparked fears that humans might regress towards apes?
On the Origin of Species.
What was the Victorian belief that faces show character called?
Physiognomy.
What does F.R.S., one of Jekyll’s titles, stand for?
Fellow of the Royal Society.
Which poor district of London does Hyde live in?
Soho.
Where in the world did Stevenson die, in 1894?
Samoa, in the Pacific.
Who says “I incline to Cain’s heresy”?
Utterson (Chapter 1).
Complete Enfield’s description of Hyde: “It wasn’t like a man; it was like …”
“… some damned Juggernaut.” (Chapter 1)
Whom does Enfield describe as “really like Satan”?
Hyde, after trampling the girl (Chapter 1).
Who does Enfield call “the very pink of the proprieties”?
The man who signed the cheque: Jekyll (Chapter 1).
Who says of Hyde, “He must be deformed somewhere”?
Enfield (Chapter 1).
Complete the quotation: “If he be Mr. Hyde, …”
“… I shall be Mr. Seek.” Utterson (Chapter 2).
Complete the quotation: “God bless me, the man seems …”
“… hardly human!” Utterson on Hyde (Chapter 2).
Complete the quotation: “if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, …”
“… it is on that of your new friend.” Utterson (Chapter 2).
Who says “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde”?
Jekyll, to Utterson (Chapter 3).
Whom does Jekyll call “that hide-bound pedant”?
Lanyon (Chapter 3).
Complete the quotation about Hyde attacking Carew: “And next moment, with …”
“… ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot” (Chapter 4).
Complete the fog description: “A great chocolate-coloured pall …”
“… lowered over heaven” (Chapter 4).
What does Soho seem like to Utterson in the fog?
“like a district of some city in a nightmare” (Chapter 4).
Who says “I have had a lesson—O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!”?
Jekyll (Chapter 5).
Complete Utterson’s thought: “Henry Jekyll forge for …”
“… a murderer!” (Chapter 5).
Complete Jekyll’s letter: “If I am the chief of sinners, …”
“… I am the chief of sufferers also.” (Chapter 6).
Whom does Lanyon describe as “one whom I regard as dead”?
Jekyll (Chapter 6).
Whose face had “his death-warrant written legibly upon” it?
Lanyon’s (Chapter 6).
Who says “God forgive us, God forgive us”?
Utterson, after seeing Jekyll at the window (Chapter 7).
Who describes the voice in the cabinet as “Weeping like a woman or a lost soul”?
Poole (Chapter 8).
What does Poole call the figure he saw among the crates?
“that masked thing like a monkey” (Chapter 8).
Complete Hyde’s words to Lanyon: “your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy …”
“… to stagger the unbelief of Satan.” (Chapter 9).
Complete the quotation: “there before my eyes … there stood …”
“… Henry Jekyll!” Lanyon (Chapter 9).
Complete the quotation: “man is not truly one, …”
“… but truly two.” Jekyll (Chapter 10).
What does Jekyll say on first seeing Hyde in the mirror?
“This, too, was myself.” (Chapter 10).
Complete the quotation: “My devil had been long caged, …”
“… he came out roaring.” Jekyll (Chapter 10).
Complete Jekyll’s account of the murder: “I mauled the unresisting body, …”
“… tasting delight from every blow” (Chapter 10).
Complete the quotation: “Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; …”
“… Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.” (Chapter 10).
Complete the quotation: “He, I say—I cannot say, I. …”
“… That child of Hell had nothing human” (Chapter 10).
What are the last words of the novel?
“I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.”
What form is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: novel, novella or short story?
A novella.
Which genre is the novel most often placed in?
Gothic fiction (also a detective or mystery story).
How many chapters does the novel have?
Ten.
Through which character’s eyes are the first eight chapters mostly seen?
Utterson’s, in third-person narration.
Which two chapters are first-person written documents?
Dr Lanyon’s Narrative (Chapter 9) and Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case (Chapter 10).
In which chapter does the reader first learn that Jekyll and Hyde are one man?
Chapter 9, Dr Lanyon’s Narrative.
What is the title of Chapter 1?
Story of the Door.
What is the title of Chapter 8?
The Last Night.
What wordplay does Utterson make on Hyde’s name?
“If he be Mr. Hyde … I shall be Mr. Seek”: a pun on hide and seek.
Which device links the fog in Chapter 4 to the dark events of the plot?
Pathetic fallacy.
In Chapter 10, which pronoun does Jekyll switch to for Hyde?
“He” instead of “I”: “He, I say—I cannot say, I.”