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Critical Reading Passage 10 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
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Questions below are based on the following passage:     This excerpt is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.     “Did you ever come across a protégé of his—one Hyde?” He asked.     “Hyde?” repeated Lanyon. “No. Never heard of him. Since my time.”     That was the amount of information that the lawyer carried back with him to the great, dark bed on which he tossed to and fro until the small hours of the morning began to grow large. It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.  ... Show more
Critical Reading Passage 10 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
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1. What is the definition of the word haunt in the following passage?
From that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by street of shops. In the morning before office hours, at noon when business was plenty of time scarce, at night under the face of the full city moon, by all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post.
2. What can one reasonably conclude from the final comment of this passage?
“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I should be Mr. Seek.”
3. What is the purpose of the use of repetition in the following passage?
It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.
4. What can one infer about the meaning of the word “Juggernaut” from the author’s use of it in the passage?
5. What is the setting of the story in this passage?
6. The phrase labyrinths of lamplighted city contains an example of what?