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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 year begins Chapter 2?

2. In what condition is Annie after losing the fight in Chapter 7?

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

4. At the end of Chapter 6, what tactics are Best and Gibbs discussing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Polly snared by Gull and Netley?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What theory does Thick believe, and why?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the mistreatment of women in "From Hell" and how it relates to the overall class structure of London in this time in the following format:

Part 1) Annie and Polly's histories.

Part 2) Polly's family.

Part 3) The abuse of the Nichol Mob.

Part 4) Annie Crook.

Part 5) Sickert and Albert's relationship with the women.

Cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What role do the Freemasons play in this novel? Why is their power so immense? How does their power, at times, eclipse even that of Victoria? How does Gull's involvement with the Masons relate not only to his heat-stroke, but to his cryptic message written by Liz Stride's body? How do the Freemasons effectively manipulate society for their own gain? How does this relate to the fates of Montague John Druitt and Gull?

Essay Topic 3

For what purpose is Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man," featured in this novel? Why does Gull continually greet him by the name "Ganesh"? Why does Gull force Polly to observe Merrick and repeat Gull's salutation? What is significant about the teapot Gull uses to burn Mary Kelly's heart? Why does Gull hold Merrick in such high esteem, and how does this contrast with the real-life Merrick's personality?

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