Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

1. Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

2. 1. What did Jekyll say was the worst of his faults before he even thought about dividing his personality? • A light-heartedness that led him too often to seek and delight in pleasure • Homosexual activity • Too much drinking • Pride in his social status • All of the above

3. 2. What did Jekyll say were his best qualities before his great experiment? • His ability to work hard (his industry) • His admiration for morally good men • His admiration for wise men • All of the above

4. 3. Which one of the following was NOT a consideration in creating two distinct personalities? • He would be able to curse mankind as two “incongruous faggots.” • He could still be respectable in social life while indulging his basest desires without a bit of guilt. • He could be a better, more moral man as Dr. Jekyll • He would no longer suffer repression and shame as Dr. Jekyll, because he could allow his base side to go its own way.

5. 4. To what does Jekyll attribute his failed experiment, or the fact that he became wholly evil (Hyde) instead of wholly good (Jekyll)? • He indulged the bad side of himself more than he indulged the good side of himself. • His potion lost its effectiveness with increased dosages. • He approached his discovery in a spirit of pride and ambition, instead of in a more philanthropic (generous) spirit. • The tincture was unbalanced, and so his dual personae were unbalanced.

6. 5. What is the dominant rhetorical device in the following sentences? • Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference. To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless. • Analogy (a comparison between two things that are similar in some way, often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand) • Parallelism (the deliberate repetition of sentence structure for effect) • Extended Metaphor (a metaphor that extends into more than one sentence) • Logos (the employment of logical reasoning)

7. 6. Why does Jekyll/Hyde ask Lanyon to break into his laboratory to get his potions for him? • Because he is afraid that the police will capture him after the Carew murder. • Because he desperately needed the potion to avoid spontaneous transformation into Hyde. • Because he wanted Lanyon to know of his scientific success. • None of the above • All of the above • 1 and 2 only • 1 and 3 only

8. 7. What is the only thing that drives Hyde to quell his evil and pleasure-seeking desires and to retreat temporarily back into the figure of Jekyll? • The overpowering of Jekyll’s personality • Fear of punishment • A desire to save his own life from the possibility that Jekyll would commit suicide and kill them both • Temporary feelings of pity for his counterpart, Jekyll • All of the above • 2 and 3 only • 1 and 4 only • 3 and 4 only