Part 7: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Conflict and Resolution — Unit test Answers

Based on Poole’s behavior in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, readers can infer that he

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.It was already bad enough when the name was but a name of which he could learn no more. It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend."I thought it was madness,” he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, "and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.”With that he blew out his candle, put on a greatcoat, and set forth in the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the great Dr. Lanyon, had his house and received his crowding patients. "If anyone knows, it will be Lanyon,” he had thought.

Which best explains the connection between the climax and a theme in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

What would be the first step to take in summarizing the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

One theme in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is "It is important to trust one’s instinct.”

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."Well, it was this way,” returned Mr. Enfield: "I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street and all the folks asleep—street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church—till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman.”

Which statement best describes how Mr. Jekyll’s view of transformation changes throughout the story?

To summarize a text means to succinctly state the

Which location is most likely to be the setting in a work of gothic fiction?

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.What he told me in the next hour, I cannot bring my mind to set on paper. I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer. My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; and I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous. As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I can not, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey . . .

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!

Read the passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Guest’s eyes brightened, and he sat down at once and studied it with passion. "No sir,” he said: "not mad; but it is an odd hand.”"And by all accounts a very odd writer,” added the lawyer.Just then the servant entered with a note."Is that from Dr. Jekyll, sir?” inquired the clerk. "I thought I knew the writing. Anything private, Mr. Utterson?”"Only an invitation to dinner. Why? Do you want to see it?”"One moment. I thank you, sir;” and the clerk laid the two sheets of paper alongside and sedulously compared their contents. "Thank you, sir,” he said at last, returning both; "it’s a very interesting autograph.”

A ________ is a struggle between opposing forces.

message a text conveys about a topiccharacter’s opinion of an event in the textmost important fact found within a textsupporting detail that supports an idea

Read the excerpt from chapter 3 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope,” continued the doctor, "there is one point I should like you to understand. I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde. I know you have seen him; he told me so; and I fear he was rude. But I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man; and if I am taken away, Utterson, I wish you to promise me that you will bear with him and get his rights for him. I think you would, if you knew all; and it would be a weight off my mind if you would promise.”

expositionclimaxsuspenseconflict

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. I was once more Edward Hyde. A moment before I had been safe of all men’s respect, wealthy, beloved—the cloth laying for me in the dining-room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.

Which statement about The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is correct?