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Grades 11 and 12 - Literature - Senior High School - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Context
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Grades 11 and 12 - Literature - Senior High School - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Context
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1. Which book published in 1859 dramatically changed accepted views about nature?
2. Which book published in 1859 dramatically changed accepted views about nature?
3. The novella contains elements of several different genres. Which of the following genres does NOT contribute to the novel?
4. When Mr Utterson is haunted by thoughts of Mr Hyde after hearing Mr Enfield's story, he reimagines the scene as appearing 'before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures'. What similar technology was available to Victorians at the time of the novella's publication?
5. 'There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?' What is meant by the term 'troglodytic'?
6. 'There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?' What is meant by the term 'troglodytic'?
7. Which notorious murders took place in London in 1888, only two years after the novella's publication?
8. Robert Louis Stevenson gained a degree in which field?
9. Which notorious murders took place in London in 1888, only two years after the novella's publication?
10. Mr Enfield refers to the building with the strange door as 'Black Mail House', but does not believe its owner to be Dr Jekyll, who, he says, 'lives in some square or other'. Why does Mr Enflied not realize that Dr Jekyll's address is the same as that of the building in the by-street?