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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 are the contents of the letter for Abberline?

2. What does Lees claim to have to Abberline?

3. What revelation does Gull make to Abberline?

4. What horrifies Gull when he gets a glimpse of the modern world?

5. Why does Liz spit out the grapes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Albert and Sickert deal with the former's guilty conscience?

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

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

5. Why does Warren erase the message left by Jack the Ripper?

6. What discovery does Mary Kelly make in Chapter 8?

7. Describe Gull's trial by the Masons.

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

9. Why does Abberline give Mary Kelly money?

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

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

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

Why does Gull frequently go into fugues during the murders? What visions does he experience in these times? How does the author blend fact with fiction during the murder of Annie? How does Gull's vision in the alleyway differ from the series of visions he suffers during the mutilation of Mary Kelly? What hints are given throughout the novel that Gull is merely hallucinating at these points? Conversely, what hints point to Gull truly experiencing what he sees in his visions? How do these fugues differ from the theories of the fourth dimension?

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