Jekyll and Hyde: Chapter 8
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
Who comes to Utterson's house at night and asks him to come?
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Poole, Jekyll's butler.Reference: Chapter 8, Poole's visit
- Question 2 · Recall
What tool does Poole use to break down the cabinet door?
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An axe.Reference: Chapter 8, the broken door
- Question 3 · Recall
Whose body do they find in the cabinet?
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Edward Hyde's, wearing clothes too large for him.Reference: Chapter 8, the cabinet
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Poole believe the man in the cabinet is not Jekyll?
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The voice is altered and the figure he glimpsed was small, and he says he knows his master's height after twenty years.Reference: Chapter 8, Poole's account
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Utterson decide to break down the door?
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He says it is his duty, and warns that their suspicions are aroused and he must see Jekyll.Reference: Chapter 8, the decision to force the door
Chapter summary
One cold, windy night in March, Poole comes to Utterson's house looking frightened. He says something is wrong and asks Utterson to come. At Jekyll's house the servants are huddled together in the hall.
Poole explains that for a week the master has stayed shut in his cabinet, sending out notes that demand a certain drug. Each batch Poole buys is said to be impure. He also says the voice inside is not Jekyll's, and that he once glimpsed a masked, dwarf-like figure that squealed and ran back into the cabinet. After twenty years he knows his master's height, and he swears that thing is not his master.
Utterson decides to break in. Poole uses an axe, and Utterson takes a poker. A voice begs for mercy and Utterson knows it as Hyde's. The door bursts inward. Hyde lies dead in oversized clothes, holding a crushed phial. Jekyll is nowhere. Utterson finds a new will naming himself, and a note telling him to read Lanyon's narrative first.
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