Q.1
What is the immediate context for this passage?
  • Dr Jekyll has spent a short while hosting several dinner parties for his friends
  • Mr Hyde has just trampled a girl in the street
  • Mr Enfield has just reported the strange incident he witnessed
  • Mr Utterson has been having nightmares about Mr Hyde
Q.2
What immediately follows this passage?
  • Mr Utterson goes round to the front of Dr Jekyll's house to see if he is in
  • Mr Utterson and Dr Lanyon discuss their concern for their old friend
  • Dr Jekyll sends Dr Lanyon a request for help
  • Mr Hyde murders Sir Danvers Carew
Q.3
Which of the following gives the impression that London is a living being?
  • "The by-street was very solitary"
  • "In spite of the low growl of London from all round"
  • "The rumor of the approach of any passenger preceded him by a long time"
  • "Distinct from the vast hum and clatter of the city"
Q.4
"He was small and very plainly dressed, and the look of him, even at that distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher’s inclination." Which of the following words best describes the effect which Mr Hyde has on Mr Utterson?
  • Repellent
  • Attractive
  • Ambivalent
  • Uninterested
Q.5
"And meeting you so conveniently, I thought you might admit me.” How could Mr Utterson's statement best be described?
  • As an aggressive request
  • As understatement
  • As a polite fiction
  • As complete truth
Q.6
Which of the following words best describe the atmosphere between the two men in this passage?
  • Relaxed, but formal
  • Tense and formal
  • Relaxed and informal
  • Tense, though informal
Q.7
Mr Hyde is frequently described as either moving, looking, or behaving as an animal. Which of the following words from this passage adds to this impression?
  • Unshaken
  • Swelled
  • Hissing
  • Defiance
Q.8
Mr Hyde wishes to know how he was recognized by a man who had never met him before. How does Mr Utterson respond?
  • By diversion
  • By bargaining
  • By concealing the involvement of Mr Enfield
  • All of the above
Q.9
Which of the following does NOT contribute to a theme of surveillance in the text?
  • "It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow"
  • "It was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success that he withdrew into the entry of the court"
  • “'If he be Mr Hyde,' he had thought, 'I shall be Mr Seek'"
  • "In the course of his nightly patrols, he had long grown accustomed to the quaint effect with which the footfalls of a single person, while he is still a great way off, suddenly spring out distinct from the vast hum and clatter of the city"
Q.10
Mr Utterson believes that Mr Hyde has given him his Soho address in case Dr Jekyll disappears or dies and his will comes into effect. What is more likely to be Hyde's motivation?
  • He wishes to become better acquainted with Mr Utterson
  • He wishes to discourage Utterson from remembering him
  • He wishes to throw Utterson off the scent by informing him that he lives elsewhere
  • He wishes Utterson to know that he lives in a respectable part of the city
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