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

2. What does Hinton's son, Howard, believe in and theorize upon?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens after Annie leaves her pensioner's house?

6. What theory does Thick believe, and why?

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

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

9. Describe the inquest Abberline attends in Chapter 6.

10. In what condition is Annie during Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways are the prostitutes in "From Hell" doomed from the very beginning? How does Gull's statement ("Do you understand how I have loved you? . . . I have made you safe from time, and we are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity.") relate to the lifestyle of the women? How is this seen with Dark Annie before her death? How does the rising fear in Whitechapel make it harder for the women to earn their money? How does the Nichol Mob contribute to the women's decision to blackmail? Were the women ever truly safe before? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the abuse of power in "From Hell" in the following format:

Part 1) Queen Victoria's orders to murder the blackmailers.

Part 2) The Nichol Mob.

Part 3) Gull's handling of Annie Crook.

Part 4) Gull's defense of his violence to Queen Victoria.

Part 5) Gull and Sir Charles Warren.

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