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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 4, what does Gull believe about his orders to kill the four women?
(a) He will become king of England by doing so.
(b) He is smiting God by doing so.
(c) He is divinely inspired.
(d) They are misguided.

2. When Albert is being forced out of Alice's rooms, what title does Mary Kelly hear addressed to Albert?
(a) Your Excellency.
(b) My Lord.
(c) Your Majesty.
(d) Your Highness.

3. How does Polly's family react to the news of her death?
(a) They want to be compensated.
(b) They do not care.
(c) They are devastated.
(d) They embark on their own investigation.

4. What year begins Chapter 2?
(a) 1813.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1827.

5. In Chapter 4, why does Queen Victoria order Gull to kill Mary Kelly and her accomplices?
(a) Victoria wants to dissolve Albert's marriage to Mary.
(b) Victoria saw the blackmail letter sent to Sickert.
(c) Mary is telling everyone about Alice.
(d) Mary spat at the Queen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lees admit to Abberline about his previous occupation during the Prologue?

2. What service does Mary Kelly render for Sickert?

3. When Mary Kelly hatches the plan to blackmail Sickert, what do the four women refer to themselves as in Chapter 3?

4. Why does Sickert object to Albert's marriage to Annie?

5. How does William Gull force Annie Crook into derangement?

Short Essay Questions

1. What marks the conception of Adolf Hitler?

2. What is Gull's belief in societal power?

3. Describe the inquest Abberline attends in Chapter 6.

4. Why does Gull believe that killing the prostitutes is only the beginning for him?

5. What conclusions does Alice's grandfather draw up concerning his daughter and the child?

6. Why does Whitechapel become gripped with hysteria at the end of Chapter 7?

7. What comprises the first encounter between Abberline and Mary Kelly?

8. What do Abberline and Lees discuss in the Prologue?

9. In what condition is Annie during Chapter 7?

10. How does "Jack the Ripper" get his name?

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