Chapter 8: The Last Night

1. Chapter 8: The Last Night

2. ____Who summons Utterson to Jekyll’s house? • Enfield • Jekyll himself • Poole • Hyde

3. ____ Why do the servants think that the man in the laboratory is not Jekyll? • His voice is different from Jekyll’s • Jekyll is out of the country • Jekyll is dead • Jekyll never goes in the laboratory

4. ____ What is Poole’s position? • He is Jekyll’s lab assistant • He is Jekyll’s butler • He is Utterson’s clerk • He is a detective

5. ____ For what does the inhabitant of the cabinet constantly petition? • His medicine • His will • His papers • A drug that is as pure as the drug he had used before

6. ____ What does the butler think happened to his master? • That he has become an odious version of himself known as Mr. Hyde • That he was murdered • That he has killed himself • That he was abducted

7. ____ What is Bradshaw’s position and what does Utterson instruct him to do? • He is Jekyll’s butler • He is Jekyll’s laboratory assistant • He is Jekyll’s footman • To help him break down the door • To wait at the laboratory door with sticks • To break in the door with an axe • 1 and 4 • 3 and 4 • 2 and 6 • 3 and 5 • 2 and 5

8. ____ How did Mr. Hyde die? • Dr. Jekyll killed him. • He committed suicide by hanging himself. • He committed suicide by taking cyanide. • He committed suicide by eating arsenic.

9. ____ Which of the following does Utterson NOT find upon investigating Jekyll’s laboratory and adjacent rooms? • A mirror • Jekyll’s corpse • A large envelope addressed to Utterson • Jekyll’s will • Jekyll’s confession

10. ____ Read the following excerpt from the passage and identify the DOMINANT (central or overriding) rhetorical device: • It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and a flying wrack [clouds] of the most diaphanous and lawny texture. The wind made talking difficult, and flecked the blood into the face. It seemed to have swept the streets unusually bare of passengers, besides. • Imagery • Metaphor • Personification • Synesthesia (the description of one kind of sense perception using words that describe another kind of sense perception)

11. ____ Which one of the following gothic elements IS NOT clearly evident in chapter 8? • Deep, dark secrets • A sense of the uncanny (too strange or unlikely to seem merely natural or human) • Dopplegångers • A strange, eerie place or geographical location • A villain and a victim • All of the above are evident in chapter 8