Jekyll and Hyde: Chapter 1
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
Who tells Utterson the story of the door?
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Richard Enfield, his distant relative and Sunday walking companion.Reference: Chapter 1, the Sunday walk
- Question 2 · Recall
How old is the girl who is trampled in the street?
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Enfield says she is maybe eight or ten years old.Reference: Chapter 1, Enfield's story
- Question 3 · Recall
What does the small man bring out of the door to pay for what he did?
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Ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance, drawn on Coutts bank.Reference: Chapter 1, the payment at the door
- Question 4 · Why
Why does the small man agree to pay money?
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Enfield and the others threaten him with a public scandal, so he pays to avoid it.Reference: Chapter 1, the settlement
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Enfield think the cheque is a sign of blackmail?
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He suspects that the signer of the cheque, a man of good name, is paying to hide something from his past.Reference: Chapter 1, Enfield's suspicion about the door
Chapter summary
Mr. Utterson is a stern London lawyer who is tolerant of other people's faults. On Sunday walks he goes out with a distant relative, Richard Enfield, and the two rarely say much. They pass a shabby, neglected door in a by-street, and Enfield tells a story about it.
One winter morning around three o'clock, Enfield saw a small man walk over a girl of about eight or ten who was running across a street. The man did not care that she screamed. Enfield caught him, and a doctor came to see the child. The doctor and the girl's family all felt a strong hatred for the man, though nothing in his looks explained it. To avoid a public scandal, the man agreed to pay. He opened the door with a key and came back with ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance on Coutts bank. The cheque was good and carried a well-known name. Enfield suspects the signer is being blackmailed. Enfield gives the man's name as Hyde. Utterson says little, and the two men agree never to speak of the matter again and shake hands on it.
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