The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Name : ______________________________________________________ Date: _______________________

Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case

1. What did Henry Jekyll say his worst fault was? What was difficult about this fault?

2. What did Dr. Jekyll do about his faults and irregularities?

3. In what direction did Henry Jekyll's scientific studies go, and why?

4. Describe, in order, the process Dr. Jekyll went through when he prepared his tincture. Include the results.

5. What was Dr. Jekyll's theory on Hyde's different size?

6. Dr. Jekyll said he had two characters and two appearances. Describe and name each.

7. At one point Dr. Jekyll said he no longer feared the gallows. What horror did bother him?

8. What started happening to Dr. Jekyll the day after he visited Dr. Lanyon?

9. How did Dr. Jekyll describe Mr. Hyde's feelings for him?

10. What conclusion did Dr. Jekyll draw about the original powder?

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any
clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the
underlined words mean on the lines provided.

1. I was born in the year 18-- to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to
industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellowmen. . .

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2. And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the
happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and
wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public.

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3. In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of
religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress.

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4. And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the
transcendental, reacted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.

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5. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be
ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens.

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6. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be
ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens.

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7. The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust

and less developed than the good which I had just deposed.

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8. Even at that time, I had not conquered my aversions to the dryness of a life of study.

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9. I next drew up that will to which you so much objected; so that if anything befell me in the person of
Dr. Jekyll, I could enter on that of Mr. Hyde without pecuniary loss.

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10. There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension
to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

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Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

___ 1. endowed                      A. domineering; arrogant

___ 2. imperious                      B. power to produce the desired effect

___ 3. inveterately                   C. varied; greatly diversified

___ 4. perennial                       D. relating to money

___ 5. multifarious                   E. supplied with a quality

___ 6. incongruous                  F. deep rooted; habitually

___ 7. efficacy                        G. absurd; incompatible

___ 8. aversions                      H. large

___ 9. pecuniary                      I. continuing; recurring

___ 10. capacious                    J. firm dislike