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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Mary Kelly give Abberline instead of her real one?

2. Where do Sickert, Mary, Annie, and Annie's daughter travel to in Chapter 1?

3. What is the point of the tactic discussed by Best and Gibbs?

4. What does Netley give to Annie?

5. What is graphically rendered in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about Annie Crook's pregnancy and marriage to Albert?

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

3. Why does Gull bring Annie Crook into his asylum, and how is she treated?

4. What comprises Gull's meeting to Sir Charles Warren?

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

6. What is Sickert's relationship with Mary Kelly?

7. What marks the conception of Adolf Hitler?

8. What is significant about the discussion on Martha Tabram?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Mary Kelly's relationship with Abberline in the following format:

Part 1) Their initial meetings at the bar.

Part 2) Mary Kelly using the name of "Emma".

Part 3) Abberline's loan to Mary.

Part 4) Mary agreeing to a future sexual liaison

Part 5) Abberline's inability to recognize the dead Mary Kelly as "Emma."

Essay Topic 2

In what ways is "From Hell" a scathing look at the upper class in both Victorian and modern society? How does Prince Albert exemplify these perversions? How does Queen Victoria, Albert's mother, view her son? Why is it important to note that Gull is constantly treating Albert for syphilis? How does this relate to the upper class' views on the lower class? How does the author relate Victorian society to modern society? How does Gull's repulsion with the modern world coincide with his goals to strengthen the rule of men over women?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Gull frequently go into fugues during the murders? What visions does he experience in these times? How does the author blend fact with fiction during the murder of Annie? How does Gull's vision in the alleyway differ from the series of visions he suffers during the mutilation of Mary Kelly? What hints are given throughout the novel that Gull is merely hallucinating at these points? Conversely, what hints point to Gull truly experiencing what he sees in his visions? How do these fugues differ from the theories of the fourth dimension?

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