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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. To what case is Abberline assigned?

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

3. What does Netley fail to do to Polly's body that Gull then corrects?

4. What organization does William Gull join after school?

5. When Mary Kelly hatches the plan to blackmail Sickert, what do the four women refer to themselves as in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sickert's relationship with Mary Kelly?

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

3. What theory does Thick believe, and why?

4. What happens when Gull has a stroke in Chapter 2?

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

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

7. Describe the inquest Abberline attends in Chapter 6.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Mary Kelly's relationship with Abberline in the following format:

Part 1) Their initial meetings at the bar.

Part 2) Mary Kelly using the name of "Emma".

Part 3) Abberline's loan to Mary.

Part 4) Mary agreeing to a future sexual liaison

Part 5) Abberline's inability to recognize the dead Mary Kelly as "Emma."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the character of Gull in the following format:

Part 1) His work as a Freemason.

Part 2) His misogyny and religious beliefs.

Part 3) His relationship to Netley and Queen Victoria.

Part 4) His fugues.

Part 5) His trajectory upon the fourth dimension, ending with the confrontation with Alice.

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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