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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. According to false evidence and the letter, who is Druitt identified as?

2. What is sent along with the letter from Gull and Netley?

3. Why has Liz been forced to the streets?

4. What goes unheeded in the beginning of Chapter 10?

5. In what does Mary's husband refuse to engage?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why does Lees get Abberline to go to Gull's house?

2. How does Albert spend his time in Chapter 9?

3. What is heard outside of Mary Kelly's building, and what are the results?

4. Who is Montague John Druitt?

5. Why is Liz's body not disfigured by Gull?

6. For what reasons does Druitt attend and subsequently leave the homosexual party?

7. Describe Gull's trial by the Masons.

8. Why does Mary Kelly agree to a sexual liaison with Abberline?

9. What is in the letter Mary left for Abberline?

10. What is the result of Abberline taking his information about Gull to his superiors?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

In what ways do the murders of the five women highlight Gull's deep-seated misogyny? What is significant about the mutilations in terms of Gull's fear of women? Why is Gull only able to feel affection for Mary Kelly after he has destroyed her body? What does Gull mean when he says, "Do you understand how I have loved you? You'd have all been dead in a year or two from liver failure, men, or childbirth. Dead. Forgotten. I have saved you. Do you understand that? I have made you safe from time, and we are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity." How does this contrast with Gull's treatment of his wife and his relationship with Queen Victoria?

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