Plot 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.