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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. What is strange about Gull's treatment of Liz?
2. What does a police officer tell Gull about Kate Eddows, who has given a false name upon arrest?
3. Why is Kate Eddows arrested?
4. How does Sickert attempt to comfort Albert in Chapter 8?
5. How does Chapter 9 end?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Montague John Druitt?
2. What is in the letter Mary left for Abberline?
3. How does Druitt's acquaintance trick him into writing a suicide note?
4. What is heard outside of Mary Kelly's building, and what are the results?
5. For what reasons does Druitt attend and subsequently leave the homosexual party?
6. Describe Gull's trial by the Masons.
7. Why is Liz's body not disfigured by Gull?
8. Why does Lees call upon Abberline in Chapter 9?
9. Why does Warren erase the message left by Jack the Ripper?
10. How and why does Lees get Abberline to go to Gull's house?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role do the Freemasons play in this novel? Why is their power so immense? How does their power, at times, eclipse even that of Victoria? How does Gull's involvement with the Masons relate not only to his heat-stroke, but to his cryptic message written by Liz Stride's body? How do the Freemasons effectively manipulate society for their own gain? How does this relate to the fates of Montague John Druitt and Gull?
Essay Topic 2
In what ways are the prostitutes in "From Hell" doomed from the very beginning? How does Gull's statement ("Do you understand how I have loved you? . . . I have made you safe from time, and we are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity.") relate to the lifestyle of the women? How is this seen with Dark Annie before her death? How does the rising fear in Whitechapel make it harder for the women to earn their money? How does the Nichol Mob contribute to the women's decision to blackmail? Were the women ever truly safe before? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
In what ways do the murders of the five women highlight Gull's deep-seated misogyny? What is significant about the mutilations in terms of Gull's fear of women? Why is Gull only able to feel affection for Mary Kelly after he has destroyed her body? What does Gull mean when he says, "Do you understand how I have loved you? You'd have all been dead in a year or two from liver failure, men, or childbirth. Dead. Forgotten. I have saved you. Do you understand that? I have made you safe from time, and we are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity." How does this contrast with Gull's treatment of his wife and his relationship with Queen Victoria?
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