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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. What does Lees admit to Abberline about his previous occupation during the Prologue?
(a) He was a fraud.
(b) He was always afraid.
(c) He was stealing from his customers.
(d) He was in love with his patient.

2. What is the occupation of Robert Lees?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Psychic.
(d) Priest.

3. In Chapter 3, how is Mary Kelly earning a living?
(a) Prostitute.
(b) Shop-girl.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Waitress.

4. After murdering Polly, what does Gull do after going to bed?
(a) Prays to God.
(b) Reads his Bible.
(c) Kisses his wife.
(d) Kills his wife.

5. What service does Mary Kelly render for Sickert?
(a) Letter courier.
(b) Nude modeling.
(c) Cook.
(d) Spying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chapter 5 begin?

2. In Chapter 5, whose conception is witnessed?

3. Where do Sickert, Mary, Annie, and Annie's daughter travel to in Chapter 1?

4. Why do people at the inquest in Chapter 6 not take it seriously?

5. How does Gull order Netley to mark the four women they are to murder?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Gull bring Annie Crook into his asylum, and how is she treated?

5. What theory does Thick believe, and why?

6. What is significant about Annie Crook's pregnancy and marriage to Albert?

7. Why does Gull believe that killing the prostitutes is only the beginning for him?

8. How is Polly snared by Gull and Netley?

9. What assumptions are made about Polly's dead body, and what discoveries happen at the morgue?

10. Describe William Gull's childhood and years in school.

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