The Strange Case of Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Name : ______________________________________________________ Date: _______________________

Story of the Door; Search for Mr. Hyde

1. Describe Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield

2. While Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield were walking, what did they see that reminded Mr. Enfield of an odd
story?

3. Summarize Mr. Enfield's story. Include the way Mr. Enfield said he felt about the man.

4. What did Mr. Enfield call the house, and why?

5. What was the name of the man who walked over the child? How did Mr. Enfield describe him?

6. What is the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson?

7. Which phrase in Dr. Jekyll's will bothered Mr. Utterson?

8. To whom did Mr. Utterson go to discuss his concerns? What were this person's comments?

9. Describe Mr. Utterson's meeting with Mr. Hyde. Include the way Mr. Utterson felt about Mr. Hyde.

10. What did Mr. Utterson discover when he went to Dr. Jekyll's house?

VOCABULARY WORKSHEETS Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Story of the Door, Search for Mr. Hyde

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. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed

from his eye.

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2. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages.

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3. . . . and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.

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4. That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in somber spirits and sat down to

dinner without relish.

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5. It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes.

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6. "Did you ever come across a protégé of his--one Hyde?" he asked.

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7. Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his

brow like a man in mental perplexity.

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8. "Your master seems to repose a great deal of trust in that young man, Poole," resumed the other

musingly.

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9. Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace; punishment

coming, pede clauso, years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault."

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10. And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded awhile on is own past, groping in all the corners

of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the- Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.

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

___ 1. eminently                      A. strict; stern

___ 2. austere                         B. confusion; puzzlement

___ 3. reprove                        C. gloom; depressing

___ 4. sombre                         D. overlooked; forgiven

___ 5. detestable                     E. outstanding

___ 6. protégé                         F. hateful; nasty

___ 7. perplexity                     G. wickedness; injustice

___ 8. repose                          H. a person under the support of a patron

___ 9. condoned                     I. rebuke; scold

___ 10. iniquity                       J. to place trust in