plot summary

Question 1

chapters 1-3 (part 1)

Answer 1

-Utterson and Enfield walk past neglected building which reminds Enfield of a crime in which a man named Hyde trampled a young girl

Question 2

chapters 1-3 (part 2)

Answer 2

Enfield explains that he put pressure on Hyde to pay for his crime. Hyde went into building and came out with cheque signed by Dr Henry Jekyll

Question 3

chapters 1-3 (part 3)

Answer 3

Utterson concerned by Jekyll’s will, which leaves everything to Hyde. He visits Lanyon and discovers that he and Jekyll has fallen out

Question 4

chapters 1-3 (part 4)

Answer 4

Utterson meets Hyde and really dislikes him. Tuns out that building Hyde went into when Enfield saw him is the laboratory at Jekyll’s home. Utterson concludes that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll

Question 5

chapters 1-3 (part 5)

Answer 5

Utterson attends dinner party thrown by Jekyll. Utterson questions Jekyll about Hyde, but Jekyll asks him to let matter drop. Jekyll makes Utterson promise that he’ll carry out the instructions in his will

Question 6

chapters 4-5 (part 1)

Answer 6

year later, a maid witnesses violent murder of Sir Danvers Carew by Hyde. Utterson takes the police to Hyde’s home in Soho where they find the murder weapon. Hyde nowhere to be found

Question 7

chapters 4-5 (part 2)

Answer 7

Utterson goes to see Jekyll, who looks very ill. Jekyll claims that he’ll never see Hyde again and shows Utterson a letter from Hyde which backs this up

Question 8

chapters 4-5 (part 3)

Answer 8

Utterson concerned when Poole tell him no letters has been delivered to house that morning

Question 9

chapters 4-5 (part 4)

Answer 9

Utterson shows Guest the letter,who points out the similarity between the handwriting of Jekyll and Hyde

Question 10

chapters 6-8 (part 1)

Answer 10

still no sign of Hyde, and Jekyll becomes more like his old self. Few months later he hides himself away from his friends again

Question 11

chapters 6-8 (part 2)

Answer 11

Utterson visits Lanyon, who’s very ill. Lanyon refuses to talk about Jekyll, he says he’s had a terrible shock and expects to die soon

Question 12

chapters 6-8 (part 3)

Answer 12

Jekyll writes to Utterson to say that he can’t see his friends anymore. Lanyon dies and leaves Utterson a letter to be read after Jekyll’s death or disappearance

Question 13

chapters 6-8 (part 4)

Answer 13

Utterson and Enfield walk past Jekyll’s house and see Jekyll sitting in the window. They invite him out for a walk, but a sudden look of terror comes across his face and he quickly shuts the window

Question 14

chapters 6-8 (part 5)

Answer 14

Poole comes to Utterson’s house he’s worried about Jekyll. They go to Jekyll’s laboratory and shout to Jekyll, but voice that responds sounds like Hyde

Question 15

chapters 6-8 (part 6)

Answer 15

They break in and discover Hyde dead on floor, having poisoned himself. No sign of Jekyll. Letter on desk addressed to Utterson tells him to read Lanyon’s letter and then Jekyll’s confession

Question 16

chapters 9-10 (part 1)

Answer 16

Lanyon’s letter explains that Hyde drank the potion and transformed into Jekyll in front oh him. The shock that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person caused Lanyon’s death

Question 17

chapters 9-10 (part 2)

Answer 17

Jekyll’s confession reveals that he had turned into Hyde without meaning to in the park. He wrote to Layon, asking for his help to retrieve ingredients needed for his potion

Question 18

chapters 9-10 (part 3)

Answer 18

Jekyll writes that he came from a respectable family, but he was ashamed of his darker desires

Question 19

chapters 9-10 (part 4)

Answer 19

Jekyll created a drug that allowed him to transfer between Jekyll, his original self, and Hyde,his purely evil side

Question 20

chapters 9-10 (part 5)

Answer 20

as time went on, Jekyll started to turn into Hyde without taking the drug. he eventually ran out of drugs, which meant he’d become Hyde permanently