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𧪠Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde â GCSE
English Literature · GCSE â plot, characters, quotations and context of Stevenson's novella
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What is Gabriel John Utterson's profession in the novella?
Lawyer
Police inspector
Butler
Doctor
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In 'Story of the Door', what does Enfield describe seeing Hyde do late at night?
Steal a purse from a lady
Trample a young girl in the street
Beat an old man with a cane
Break into a doctor's house
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In which year was Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde first published?
1847
1818
1886
1901
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Which respected elderly MP is beaten to death by Hyde, as witnessed by a maid at her window?
Richard Enfield
Dr Hastie Lanyon
Mr Guest
Sir Danvers Carew
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Which character dismisses Jekyll's experiments as 'unscientific balderdash'?
Mr Utterson
Poole
Dr Lanyon
Mr Enfield
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Why does Jekyll's will trouble Utterson so much?
It leaves everything to a London hospital
It leaves everything to Poole if Jekyll dies
It leaves everything to Lanyon if Jekyll dies
It leaves everything to Hyde if Jekyll disappears
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Utterson calls Hyde 'troglodytic'. What does this word suggest about him?
He seems primitive, like an early cave-dweller
He seems wealthy and well-educated
He seems foreign and well-travelled
He seems sickly and close to death
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Whose words are these: 'man is not truly one, but truly two'?
Edward Hyde
Hastie Lanyon
Gabriel Utterson
Henry Jekyll
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According to Jekyll's final statement, why can he no longer make the potion that turns him back?
Hyde smashed every bottle in the laboratory
Poole refused to buy any more chemicals
His first supply of salt had an unknown impurity
Lanyon destroyed his notes and recipe
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Which real Edinburgh man, respectable by day and a burglar by night, is often cited as an influence on Stevenson?
John Knox
Deacon William Brodie
Robert Burns
Sir Walter Scott
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