The Strange Case of Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Name : ______________________________________________________ Date: _______________________

Dr. Jekyll Was Quite At Ease; The Carew Murder Case; Incident of the Letter;

Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon

1. Summarize the discussion between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson after the dinner party.

2. To whom did Dr. Jekyll compare Mr. Utterson during the conversation?

3. Describe the murder. Tell when it happened in relation to the rest of the story. Give the name of the murderer,
the victim, and tell who saw the murder. Describe what the murdered man was carrying. Tell who identified the
body.

4. Where did Mr. Utterson and Inspector Newcomen go? Who was there? What did they find?

5. Who gave Mr. Utterson a note? What was the note about? Where was the envelope, and what was unusual
about the postmark?

6. What else did Mr. Utterson discover about the note when he talked to Poole?

7. Who was Mr. Guest? What did he discover? What was Mr. Utterson's conclusion?

8. Describe all of the changes in Dr. Jekyll after Mr. Hyde's disappearance. What did he say about seeing
Dr. Lanyon again?

9. After a few nights of being refused entrance to see Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Utterson went to visit Dr. Lanyon.
Summarize the visit; including what Mr. Utterson thought was wrong. What did Dr. Lanyon say about
Dr. Jekyll? What later happened to Dr. Lanyon?

10. Describe the envelope Mr. Utterson receives. Tell who gave it to him, what it says, and what is inside.

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. They liked to sit awhile in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's
rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.

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2. "It can make no change. You do not understand my position," returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency
of manner.

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3. When they had come within speech (which was just under the maid's eyes) the older man bowed and
accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness.

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4. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood,
had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty.

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5. Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the
back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange
conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up. . .

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6. A flash of odious joy appeared upon the woman's face. "Ah!" said she, "he is in trouble! What has he done?"

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7. From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had

resisted the action of the fire. . .

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8. . . . and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of
strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and not lying gaunt and silent, the
tables laden wit chemical apparatus. . .

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9. Utterson ruminated awhile; he was surprised at this friend's selfishness, and yet relieved by it.

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10. "One moment. I thank you, sir," and the clerk laid the two sheets of paper alongside and sedulously
compared their contents.

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

___ 1. unobtrusive                  A. a great fire

___ 2. incoherency                  B. spoke to first

___ 3. accosted                       C. diligently

___ 4. insensate                       D. dug up

___ 5. conflagration                E. pondered; reflected over and over

___ 6. odious                          F. unable to express one's thoughts clearly

___ 7. disinterred                    G. lean and angular

___ 8. gaunt                            H. hateful

___ 9. ruminated                     I. not noticeable

___ 10. sedulously                  J. without feeling