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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 does Mary Kelly learn when she makes her payment for protection to the Nichol Mob?

2. How does Sickert attempt to comfort Albert in Chapter 8?

3. Fill in the blank: Druitt's occupations are as a schoolteacher and a _____.

4. While drinking with Druitt, what does his acquaintance trick him into writing?

5. When Gull dictates the letter to Netley in Chapter 9, from where is the letter addressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Kelly spend her days before her murder?

2. For what reasons is the deceased Druitt identified as Jack the Ripper?

3. What does Gull do to Mary Kelly's body?

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

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

6. How does Gull justify his violence to Queen Victoria in Chapter 9?

7. Why does Lees call upon Abberline in Chapter 9?

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

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

10. How does Druitt's acquaintance trick him into writing a suicide note?

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

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

What is the fourth dimension? How do the other characters react to this theory? What is significant about the conception of Hitler being linked to Gull's first murder? What happens to Gull in his final moments alive? How is the fourth dimension utilized in the framing of this story? Do other characters beyond Gull appear to grasp its significance? How is the fourth dimension linked to Gull's mysticism and beliefs?

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