Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Quiz
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • 1. What is Mr. Utterson's profession?
A) Lawyer
B) Detective
C) Scientist
D) Doctor
  • 2. How is Mr. Utterson described in terms of his personality?
A) Aggressive
B) Emotionless
C) Impulsive
D) Vain
  • 3. What is Dr. Jekyll's age?
A) Forty
B) Seventy
C) Fifty
D) Thirty
  • 4. Where is Dr. Jekyll based?
A) Soho
B) Kensington
C) Whitechapel
D) Mayfair
  • 5. What does Dr. Jekyll create to separate his hidden evil?
A) A surgical procedure
B) A potion
C) A hypnotism technique
D) A machine
  • 6. How is Mr. Hyde physically compared to Dr. Jekyll?
A) Taller and older
B) Larger and older
C) Smaller and younger
D) Smaller and older
  • 7. Why does Utterson live as a recluse?
A) He fears Hyde
B) He dampens his taste for the finer items of life
C) He is hiding from the law
D) He is ill
  • 8. What happens to Hyde as time goes by?
A) He disappears
B) He regrets his actions
C) He becomes kind
D) He grows in power
  • 9. What does Utterson believe human downfall results from?
A) Indulging oneself in topics of interest
B) Social pressure
C) Financial ruin
D) Bad luck
  • 10. What is a key trait of Dr. Jekyll's personality before his transformation?
A) Violent
B) Cruel
C) Sly
D) Amiable
  • 11. What eventually happens to Jekyll's relationship with the potion?
A) He stops using it entirely
B) He loses the recipe
C) He becomes reliant on it to remain conscious
D) The potion stops working
  • 12. Which of these traits is used to describe Mr. Hyde?
A) Tolerant
B) Trustworthy
C) Measured
D) Remorseless
  • 13. Who are two of Utterson's close friends?
A) Hyde and Poole
B) Lanyon and Poole
C) Jekyll and Hyde
D) Jekyll and Lanyon
  • 14. What does Utterson conclude about Jekyll's occupation?
A) Jekyll is hiding it
B) Jekyll hates it
C) Jekyll is bored by it
D) Jekyll enjoys it
  • 15. What is the physical description of Dr. Jekyll's face?
A) Bearded
B) Wrinkled
C) Scarred
D) Smooth-faced
  • 16. Who does Mr. Utterson go on walks with?
A) Sir Danvers Carew
B) Mr. Enfield
C) Dr. Lanyon
D) Dr. Jekyll
  • 17. What did Edward Hyde do to a young girl?
A) Ignored her
B) Kidnapped her
C) Trampled her
D) Stole her money
  • 18. Whom did Hyde beat to death?
A) Mr. Enfield
B) Mr. Utterson
C) Sir Danvers Carew
D) Dr. Lanyon
  • 19. What object was left behind at the murder scene?
A) A signed confession
B) A bloodied handkerchief
C) Half a broken cane
D) A vial of serum
  • 20. Who gave the broken cane to Jekyll?
A) Utterson
B) Carew
C) Lanyon
D) Enfield
  • 21. What did Jekyll forge for Hyde?
A) A bank cheque
B) An apology note
C) A medical prescription
D) A passport
  • 22. What causes Dr. Lanyon's death?
A) Poisoning
B) Shock
C) Old age
D) Hyde attacked him
  • 23. Who is Jekyll's butler?
A) Poole
B) Lanyon
C) Utterson
D) Enfield
  • 24. What did Utterson and Poole find in the laboratory?
A) Jekyll's body
B) An empty room
C) Empty chemical vials
D) Hyde's body
  • 25. Why did the serum stop working?
A) The salt supply was impure
B) Jekyll ran out of chemicals
C) The formula was stolen
D) Hyde stopped taking it
  • 26. What is the profession of Gabriel John Utterson in the novella?
A) Cabinet-maker
B) French teacher
C) City councillor
D) Legal practitioner
  • 27. In what year was Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde published?
A) 1882
B) 1878
C) 1888
D) 1886
  • 28. Which historical figure, a cabinet-maker and city councillor, inspired Stevenson's early play?
A) Eugène Chantrelle
B) W. E. Henley
C) William Brodie
D) John Addington Symonds
  • 29. How did Eugène Chantrelle kill his wife?
A) Poisoning with opium
B) Toasted cheese
C) Suffocation
D) Stabbing
  • 30. According to the text, what was the primary subject of Stevenson's dream that inspired the novella?
A) A murder trial in Scotland
B) The writing of a gothic horror story
C) A man living in London
D) A voluntary change becoming involuntary
  • 31. Who woke Stevenson from the dream that provided the first transformation scene?
A) Fanny Stevenson
B) Lloyd Osbourne
C) W. E. Henley
D) Gabriel John Utterson
  • 32. Approximately how long does Lloyd Osbourne suggest the first draft took to write?
A) One month
B) One year
C) Six weeks
D) Three days
  • 33. Where was Stevenson living when he wrote the novella?
A) Bournemouth
B) Edinburgh
C) France
D) London
  • 34. What was the medical reason for Stevenson to be confined to bed while writing?
A) Opium addiction
B) Hallucinations from cocaine
C) Lung fever
D) A haemorrhage
  • 35. What medication was Stevenson receiving that might have stimulated his dreams?
A) Opium
B) Ergotine
C) Cocaine
D) Morphine
  • 36. Which of Stevenson's friends wrote to him saying the book 'touches one too closely'?
A) Horatio Brown
B) W. E. Henley
C) Edmund Gosse
D) John Addington Symonds
  • 37. What is the primary genre of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
A) Historical biography
B) Romantic comedy
C) Gothic horror
D) Scientific treatise
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