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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. What is the occupation of Robert Lees?
(a) Priest.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Psychic.
(d) Teacher.

2. What sort of relationship does Albert pursue with Annie during Chapter 1?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Parental.
(d) Brotherly.

3. When Liz, Annie, and Polly meet for a drink, what is the fate of their discussed acquaintance, Martha Tabram?
(a) Marriage to a respectable man.
(b) Exiled.
(c) Jailed.
(d) Murdered.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 5, to whom does Gull confide in the impending murders?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Abberline.
(c) Nestley.
(d) Sir Charles Warren.

5. What organization does William Gull join after school?
(a) Reformists.
(b) Druids.
(c) Suffragettes.
(d) Freemasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, whose conception is witnessed?

2. While having a stroke, of what deity does Gull have a vision?

3. What does Annie Crook's father believe is at the center of Annie's madness?

4. Where does Chapter 6 begin?

5. Who is a famous, historical figure that Gull meets in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What leads Mary Kelly and the three prostitutes to blackmail Sickert?

4. What assumptions are made about Polly's dead body, and what discoveries happen at the morgue?

5. How is Polly snared by Gull and Netley?

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

7. What marks the conception of Adolf Hitler?

8. What happens when Gull has a stroke in Chapter 2?

9. Describe William Gull's childhood and years in school.

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

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