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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Polly's family react to the news of her death?
(a) They do not care.
(b) They are devastated.
(c) They embark on their own investigation.
(d) They want to be compensated.

2. What name does Mary Kelly give Abberline instead of her real one?
(a) Emily.
(b) Alice.
(c) Annie.
(d) Emma.

3. At the end of Chapter 4, what does Gull believe about his orders to kill the four women?
(a) He will become king of England by doing so.
(b) He is smiting God by doing so.
(c) They are misguided.
(d) He is divinely inspired.

4. What portion of Polly's body does Gull take as a trophy during the evisceration?
(a) The heart.
(b) The uterus.
(c) The liver.
(d) The kidney.

5. What does Abberline note would have been the result if he and Lees had not gone along with the conspiracy in the Prologue?
(a) They would have been discredited.
(b) They would have been exiled.
(c) They would have been admired throughout their country.
(d) They would have been murdered.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prologue, what do the two men admit to hiding?

2. What do Annie, Liz, and Mary believe about Polly's murder?

3. What sort of relationship does Albert pursue with Annie during Chapter 1?

4. What is the occupation of Walter Sickert?

5. With what does Gull coat the grapes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Whitechapel become gripped with hysteria at the end of Chapter 7?

2. Describe the inquest Abberline attends in Chapter 6.

3. How does "Jack the Ripper" get his name?

4. What marks the conception of Adolf Hitler?

5. What revelations does Mary Kelly make to Sickert in Chapter 3?

6. What is Gull's belief in societal power?

7. What theory does Thick believe, and why?

8. What comprises the first encounter between Abberline and Mary Kelly?

9. What conclusions does Alice's grandfather draw up concerning his daughter and the child?

10. What leads Mary Kelly and the three prostitutes to blackmail Sickert?

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