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