Name:_____________________________
Period:_____
Study Guide
The Story of the Door
1. Who is Mr. Utterson? What is he like?
2. What activity do he and Enfield share?
3. In what city does the story take place?
4. What strange occurrence does Enfield associate with the door?
5. How much money does the crowd demand for damages from the man and how is this money
paid?
6. Who signs the check and why does Enfield think this person has signed the check?
“He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his
appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I
never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be
deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although
I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and
yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No, sir; I can make no
hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I
declare I can see him this moment.”
--Speaker:_______________
7. Who is the speaker of the quote describing?
8. Choose two words that stand out to you and explain why.
Search for Mr. Hyde
1. What is Mr. Utterson’s relationship with Dr. Jekyll?
2. What does Dr. Jekyll’s will specify?
3. Who is Dr. Lanyon? What interrupted the friendship between Lanyon and Jekyll?
4. What are some further details to describe Hyde’s physical appearance?
5. Who is Poole? What orders does Poole have concerning Hyde?
6. What does Utterson suspect is going on between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
7. What does Utterson fear Hyde might do? Why?
8. Underline the parts of this description that stand out to you.
9. Compare and contrast Mr. Utterson’s description of Hyde
with that of Mr. Enfield’s from chapter 1.
Enfield’s
Description:
“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave
an impression of deformity without any
nameable malformation, he had a
displeasing smile, he had borne himself to
the lawyer with a sort of murderous
mixture of timidity and boldness, and he
spoke with a husky, whispering and
somewhat broken voice; all these were
points against him, but not all of these
together could explain the hitherto
unknown disgust, loathing, and fear with
which Mr. Utterson regarded him.”
Utterson’s
Description:
--Speaker:__________________
Dr. Jekyll was Quite at Ease
1. How long is a fortnight?
2. What provides an excuse for Utterson to talk to Jekyll about the will?
3. How is Dr. Jekyll described?
4. What does Jekyll say about Lanyon?
5. How does Jekyll react to the mention of Hyde?
6. What does Jekyll tell Utterson to put “his heart at rest”?
7. What promise does Utterson make to Jekyll?
The Carew Murder Case
1. How much time has elapsed between the incident with the child and the
murder?
2. What items are found on the body?
3. Who witnesses the murder?
4. Who is murdered? How is his identity revealed?
5. What is the murder weapon? Who does the weapon belong to?
6. Who seems glad that Mr. Hyde is in trouble?
7. What is the condition of Hyde’s house when Utterson and the inspector
enter?
8. What two important clues are found at Hyde’s house?
The Incident of the Letter
1. What does Jekyll say in response to Utterson’s inquiry regarding Hyde’s whereabouts?
2. Why does Jekyll want Utterson to have the letter?
3. Who is it from and what does it say?
4. Why is there no envelope for the letter?
5. How can Poole be so positive that no messenger delivered the letter?
6. What is the only major difference in the two samples of writing?
7. What assumption does Utterson make from Guest’s findings?
"I swear to God I will never set eyes on him
again. I bind my honour to you that I am
done with him in this world. It is all at an
end. And indeed he does not want my
help; you do not know him as I do; he is
safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he
will never more be heard of.
8. Explain the context of the quote (why is it said and
under what circumstances?).
--Speaker:____________________
9. Have you ever tried to break a bad habit? Were you successful? Explain using at least 50 words.
Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon
1. Between the days of January 8 and January 16 what change
has occurred in Dr. Lanyon?
2. What reason does Lanyon give for his current condition?
3. What does Lanyon say in response to the mention of Jekyll?
4. In his letter to Utterson, what kind of life does Jekyll say he now intends to lead? What does Jekyll ask
Utterson to respect?
5. What document does Utterson receive the night of Lanyon’s funeral? What instructions are given?
6. What does Utterson do with the two documents?
7. Make an inference: What has caused Dr. Lanyon’s death? What has happened to him? Support with
evidence from the text.
Incident at the Window
1. What does Enfield say he was an “ass” not to realize about the house?
2. What does Utterson say his reaction was to meeting Hyde?
3. What is their initial description of Jekyll at the window?
4. What happens to Jekyll as Utterson and Enfield are talking with him?
5. Why does Utterson say “God forgive us?”
6. Make an inference: Explain Dr. Jekyll’s possible reasons for behavior in this scene using support
from the text.
The Last Night
1. Why does Poole come to see Utterson?
2. What is the first thing Poole and Utterson notice has changed about Jekyll?
3. What does Poole think has happened to Jekyll?
4. What has Poole been sent to do all week by the man in the lab?
5. Why is Poole certain that the man in the lab is not Dr. Jekyll?
6. What does Utterson say it is his duty to do?
7. Who do they find inside? What has happened to him?
8. How is the will in the lab different from the original will?
9. What does the note from Jekyll instruct Utterson to do?
10. Make an inference: Explain what happened in Jekyll’s lab during this chapter using support from
the text.
Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative
1. What is Dr. Lanyon asked to get from Jekyll’s house?
2. What is Lanyon asked to do with this item?
3. Who is the messenger Dr. Jekyll sends to Lanyon’s house?
4. How does the messenger taunt Lanyon after he has created his mixture of ingredients?
“He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp.
A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the
table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping
with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I
thought, a change—he seemed to swell—his face
became suddenly black and the features seemed to
melt and alter—and at the next moment, I had sprung
to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arm
raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind
submerged in terror.
“O God!” I screamed, and “O God!” again and again;
for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half
fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a
man restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll!”
5. Choose three words or phrases from the
excerpt above that create imagery or add to the
intensity of the description, then explain why
you chose each word.
--Speaker:____________________
6. What happens to Lanyon after he witnesses this strange event?
7. After reading this chapter and viewing several movie adaptations,
which version best depicts the transformation of Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde?
Defend your answer using at least 50 words.
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
“Man is not truly one, but truly two…It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and
primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be
said to be either, it was only because I was radically both; and from an early date . . . I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a
beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.”
1.
________________
Explain Dr. Jekyll’s theory from the quote above
in your own words.
2.
Do you agree with him? Why or why not?
3.
How does Jekyll say he feels the first time he drinks the potion?
4.
According to Jekyll, why is Hyde so much smaller?
5.
Describe how Jekyll becomes enslaved.
6.
How does Jekyll react to Hyde’s wrongdoings?
7.
What happens one night two months before the murder of Sir Danvers? Why is this incident so
important?
8.
Why does he reverse his initial choice and once again become Hyde?
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising
subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing
myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect. And at the very moment of that
vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering. . . . I began to be aware of a change in
the temper of my thoughts, a greater boldness, a contempt of danger, a solution of the bonds of obligation. I looked down; my clothes
hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. I was once more Edward Hyde.”
9. What causes Dr. Jekyll to turn into Hyde here?
10. Why is this event significant? What does Jekyll now realize?
11. How do you feel about the ending of the novel? Is it fitting? Did it surprise you? Why do you think
Robert Louis Stevenson structured the text this way and with this ending? Explain using at least 50 words.