The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Name : ______________________________________________________ Date: _______________________

Incident at the Window; The Last Night; Dr. Lanyon's Narrative

1. Where did Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield go for their Sunday walk? Whom did they see? What happened?
How did they react?

2. What did Poole think happened to Dr. Jekyll?

3. Poole said Dr. Jekyll had been asking for something all week. How was he asking for it? What was it? What
type did he want?

4. Whom and what did Poole, Bradshaw, and Mr. Utterson find when they broke the door down?

5. Summarize the note Dr. Lanyon received. Tell when he received it, what it said, and who had signed it.

6. Describe the messenger.

7. Retell, in order, the events at Dr. Lanyon's house.

8. How did Dr. Lanyon say he felt after this meeting?

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. The middle one of the three windows was half-way open; and sitting close behind it, taking the air with an
infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.

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2. The middle one of the three windows was half-way open; and sitting close behind it, taking the air
with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson say Dr. Jekyll.

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3. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an
expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.

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4. He could have wished it otherwise; never in his life had he been conscious of so sharp a wish to see and touch
his fellow-creatures; for struggle as he might, there was borne in upon his mind a crushing anticipation of calamity.

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5. Poole said to her, with a ferocity of accent that testified to his own jangled nerves; and indeed, when the girl
 had so suddenly raised the note of her lamentation, they had all started and turned towards the inner door with
faces of dreadful expectation.

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6. "There is my explanation; it is sad enough, Poole, ay, and appalling to consider; but it is plain and natural,
hangs well together, and delivers us from all exorbitant alarms."

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7. The phial, to which I next turned my attention, night have been about half full of a blood-red liquor, which
was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorous and some volatile ether.

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8. This bore some resemblance to incipient rigour, and was accompanied by a marked sinking of the pulse.

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9. My visitor, who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, set down the glass upon the
table, and then turned and looked upon me with an air of scrutiny.

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10. "Sir," said I, affecting a coolness that I was far from truly possessing, "you speak enigmas, and you will
perhaps not wonder that I hear you with no very strong impression of belief."

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

___ 1. mien                             A. disaster

___ 2. disconsolate                 B. close examination

___ 3. abject                          C. behavior; bearing

___ 4. calamity                       D. beginning; in an early stage

___ 5. lamentation                   E. grieving; expressing sorrow

___ 6. exorbitant                     F. wretched; lacking pride

___ 7. volatile                         G. excessive

___ 8. incipient                       H. sad

___ 9. scrutiny                        I. puzzles

___ 10. enigmas                      J. evaporating rapidly