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Read the excerpt from chapter 4 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.This last, however, was not so easy of accomplishment; for Mr. Hyde had numbered few familiars—even the master of the servant maid had only seen him twice; his family could nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed; and the few who could describe him differed widely, as common observers will. Only on one point were they agreed; and that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.
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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.
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 . . .
Which best explains the connection between the climax and a theme in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart.”The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye—not even his—could have detected any thing wrong. Read the excerpt from "The Black Cat.”This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body. I knew that I could not remove it from the house, either by day or by night, without the risk of being observed by the neighbors. Many projects entered my mind. At one period I thought of cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and destroying them by fire. At another, I resolved to dig a grave for it in the floor of the cellar.
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Based on Poole’s behavior in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, readers can infer that he
Read the passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older; and yet it was not so much these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer’s notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind.
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Which of these are features of gothic literature? Check all that apply.unexplained eventsupbeat, happy endingsfear and horrorlack of emotionmystery and suspensesupernatural elements
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.. . . 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 excerpt from chapter 1 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.
Which events in chapter 8 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde develop the theme "It is important to trust one’s instincts”? Check all that apply. Poole confesses his belief that he feels something is wrong.Poole is relieved when the lawyer comes to the Jekyll home.The cold, stormy weather slows the men as they walk together.The butler believes a murder has been committed in the laboratory.Poole states his belief that the masked figure is Mr. Hyde.Edward Hyde is found dead, but Dr. Jekyll has disappeared.
Which statement about The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is correct?
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.
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