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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. In Chapter 7, who do Annie and Liza meet for a drink?

2. How does Netley feel about the work of killing four women?

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

4. What is the occupation of Robert Lees?

5. What organization does William Gull join after school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What theory does Thick believe, and why?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does the written word play in "From Hell"? How do the tactics of yellow journalism increase newspaper sales while inciting a frenzy in Whitechapel? How does the fear of the public give the Masons at Scotland Yard the idea to frame the innocent Druitt for the murders? How do the false letters from Jack the Ripper sensationalize the murders? For what reasons does Gull send in his own letter? How does Gull make sure it is known that his own letter is authentic? Why is Gull's letter particularly important to the themes of this novel (title notwithstanding)?

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

For what purpose do the grapes serve? Why are Annie and Polly easily sated by the grapes? Of what are these grapes symbolic? Why are grapes such a treat for the prostitutes? What is significant about Liz Stride spitting out the grapes and mentioning the foul taste? How does Gull's response to Liz's refusal of the grapes mark an escalation in his violence? Why is it noteworthy that Gull does not bother trying to ply Kate or Mary Kelly with the grapes?

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