Chapter 5: Incident of the Letter

Question 1

“Dr. Jekyll, looking deadly sick; he did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice”.

Answer 1

Jekyll’s ‘deteriorated’

Question 2

“He will never more be heard of”.

Answer 2

Irony

No more talk of Hyde

Question 3

“The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles”.

(Carbuncles = Large boil that leaks puss)

Answer 3

Negative setting

Simile

Question 4

“The glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London”.

Answer 4

Contrast of setting

Positive imagery

Question 5

“There’s a rather singular resemblance; the two hands are in many points identical: only differently sloped”.

Answer 5

Similar writing suggests Jekyll and Hyde could be the same person
Inquiry between Clerk and Utterson

Question 6

“Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!” And his blood ran cold in his veins.

Answer 6

Jekyll’s hiding his secret of being Hyde

Utterson thinks Jekyll’s murdered someone

Question 7

What is this chapter based on?

Answer 7

Utterson trying to figure out why Jekyll has so many similarities to Hyde