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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 is the setting of the Prologue?

2. What moniker is given to the murderer by the false letter?

3. How does Polly's family react to the news of her death?

4. How does Gull order Netley to mark the four women they are to murder?

5. In Chapter 3, how is Mary Kelly earning a living?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Polly snared by Gull and Netley?

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

5. In what condition is Annie during Chapter 7?

6. What marks the conception of Adolf Hitler?

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

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

9. Describe the inquest Abberline attends in Chapter 6.

10. What revelations does Mary Kelly make to Sickert in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

"It is beginning, Netley. Only just beginning. For better or worse, the twentieth century. I have delivered it," Gull intones after one the murders. Analyze this statement in the following format:

Part 1) Theories of the fourth dimension.

Part 2) Gull's final journey on the fourth dimension.

Part 3) Gull's ideology.

Part 4) The contrast of Annie's daughter with Gull's beliefs.

Part 5) The significance of Abberline and Lees mentioning the coming of a world war in the Prologue and Epilogue.

Essay Topic 3

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."

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