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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Language
This GCSE English Literature quiz takes a look at language. Language in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde draws on science, psychology, a fascination with the mystic and the spiritual, the conventions of civilised society and the seedy side of nineteenth-century London. Descriptions are often poetic, sometimes visceral. Stevenson creates a sense of a dark and mysterious London, even when describing events which take place in daylight or inside comfortable homes, in front of homey fires. Descriptions often hint at unseen, inexplicable realities beyond the edge of reason.
1 .
"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, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of those elements." What is implied by the use of the word "elements" here?
Dr Jekyll views his very being as a compound, made up of different elements
Dr Jekyll has no other language besides that of chemistry
Dr Jekyll is referring to the chemical elements of which his physical body is made
All of the above
Dr Jekyll is using a metaphor for the makeup of the human psyche. Rather than a whole, he perceives himself as made up of various substances, somewhat like his own potion. Mr Hyde is one of those elements
2 .
"Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror. But it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on the roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along the glazed front of the presses, and their own pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in." Which of the following statements is correct?
The sparkling reflections of the fire contrast with its bright glow
The sparkling reflections and the cosy glow of the fire contrast sharply here with the shocked faces of Poole and Utterson
The reflections of the mirror hold the answer to the mystery
The rosy glow of the fire corresponds to the excited expressions on the faces of Poole and Utterson
With the exception of Mr Hyde's twitching body, everything in the cabinet is as cosy and inviting as normal
3 .
"And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could, for they were as wild as harpies." What is the effect of the language in this sentence?
It reinforces the view held by Dr Jekyll, that of the dual nature of humanity
It reminds the reader that London was an orderly, civilised place in the late nineteenth century
It hints that the novella will be a mystery
It hints that the novella will be about science
The reader is presented early in the text with an image of women as "wild as harpies", a reminder of the passions and violence beneath a civilised surface. The women are raging at Mr Hyde because he trampled a young girl without stopping
4 .
"'This is a very strange tale, Poole; this is rather a wild tale, my man,' said Mr Utterson, biting his finger. 'Suppose it were as you suppose, supposing Dr Jekyll to have been — well, murdered, what could induce the murderer to stay? That won't hold water; it doesn't commend itself to reason.'" Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
The reference to "reason" hints that Mr Utterson is clinging to his usual way of understanding the world, even as he begins to doubt that he is dealing with the explicable
The repetition of variations on the word "suppose" refers to Mr Utterson's profession as a lawyer, where a fact might be temporarily supposed to be true in order to test a point
Mr Utterson's appeal to reason emphasises the novella's presentation of reason as paramount, with every event entirely explicable by science
Mr Utterson's behaviour, in biting his finger, demonstrates his unease with the very words he says
Mr Hyde represents the aspect of Dr Jekyll's character which is furthest from reason, acting instead out of passion and desire. Science and reason make much of the world more explicable, without being able to fathom the mystery of the human psyche
5 .
"Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house." What is meant here by "unsunned"?
The bottle of wine has been kept for a while on a sunny windowsill
The bottle of wine is from a country which does not receive much sunshine
The bottle of wine is made from grapes grown in the dark
The bottle of wine has been stored in the dark
The rich wine has been brought up from the dark cellar in which it has been long kept. In the novella, not everything dredged up from the darkness is as good!
6 .
"And yet, when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance." Which of the following descriptions applies to Dr Jekyll's perception of his own appearance?
"Ugly idol in the glass"
"It bore a livelier image of the spirit"
"It seemed more express and single"
"The imperfect and divided countenance"
Dr Jekyll's view is subjective. Whereas others view Mr Hyde as unnatural and misbegotten, he sees his alter ego as pure and undivided
7 .
Which of the following lines juxtaposes imagery drawn from both urban and rural environments?
"As he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures"
"He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city"
"Then of the figure of a man walking swiftly"
"Then of a child running from the doctor's"
The streetlamps of the city are here imagined as a "great field", as if these man-made objects grew in nature
8 .
"The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind." Which of the following types of imagery are present in this sentence?
Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
All of the above
There are many examples of each of these. For metaphor: the arteries of the city are its streets, and the fog drowns the city, while also being a bird resting in flight above the city. For simile: lamps are like carbuncles and the sound of the city's life is like a wind. "Smother" and "muffle" are examples of onomatopoeia
9 .
"And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman." Which of the following words presents anger as a natural phenomenon?
Sudden
Broke
Flame
Brandishing
Hyde is associated simultaneously with the unnatural, as when his misshapen appearance is described, and the natural, as when he is compared to an animal. His anger arises naturally, like a flame
10 .
"Up went the axe again, and again the panels crashed and the frame bounded; four times the blow fell; but the wood was tough and the fittings were of excellent workmanship; and it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst in sunder and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the carpet." Which language choices create a sense of violent movement in this sentence?
Up, crashed, bounded
Blow, fell, burst
Sunder, wreck, fell
All of the above
The language creates a powerful sense of violent motion; it is easy to picture the swinging axe, the resistant door frame, the breaking of the lock and the final fall of the door
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