Program in Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Bachelor English Language Teaching

PRE-INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH B1

READING COMPREHENSION

Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Read carefully the following questions and answer them. Please provide enough
support.

LITERAL ANSWERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

NAME: __________________________________________________ DATE:______________

1. Describe the setting of the story (place, time, historical background)

2. Who is Mr. Hyde. Describe him briefly (Character, personality, etc)
3. Do you think the story ends in a good way? Can you suggest why the author
ends it like this?
4. Describe other ways in which the story could have ended?
5. Why Dr Jekyll creates Mr. Hyde?
6. Everyone who sees Hyde comments on how his presence makes them fell
uncomfortable. What does Hyde symbolize? Why does this make people feel
uncomfortable?
7. Hyde cannot control his anger. What kind of serious problems cause his anger?
8. Tick T (true), F (false) or D (doesn´t say)

T F D
 Dr Jekyll was dead at the beginning of the book
 Utterson had been a lawyer for forty years
 Poole worked for Mr. Utterson
 Sir Danvers Carew was a friend of Mr. Utterson
 The story takes place in London in winter
 Dr Jekyll lived and worked in the same house
 Utterson approved of Dr. Jekyll´s will
 Utterson was worried about Dr. Jekyll
 Jekyll was younger than Utterson
 Lanyon and Jekyll had studies together at university

9. Read the following statements and choose the most suitable phrases to finish the
sentences
A. Paole asked Utterson to come to Jekylls house because:
1. He couldn´t open Dr. Jekyll´s office door
2. He did not know where Dr. Jekyll had gone
3. He thought someone had murdered Dr. Jekyll
4. He thought there was a burglar in Dr Jekyll´s office

B. Dr Jekyll had problems reproducing the effect of his drug because:

1. Poole could not find enough supplies in London

2. He did not realize the original ingredients were impure
3. The chemists did not want to help him because the drug was ilegal
4. He became inmune to the drug and needed greater quantities

C. Dr. Lanyon stopped all contact wirh Dr. Jekyll bacause:

1. He was jealous of the success of Jekyll´s experiments

2. He was shocked when he realized that Hyde was a part of Jekyll
3. He disapproved of Jekyll´s will
4. He had an argument with Jekyll about scientific beliefs.

D. Poole and Utterson thought that Hyde had killed himself because:

1. He was unhappy
2. He had already killed Dr. Jekyll
3. Jekyll could not replicate the drug
4. He had murdered Sr Danvers Carew

10. This book has been a best seller around the world. Can you support why?