Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- What troubles Utterson about Jekyll's will? — It leaves everything to a stranger named Edward Hyde. In case of death or 'disappearance or unexplained absence' — the phrase that lodges in the lawyer's professional craw.
- What does Hyde do to the little girl at the book's start? — Tramples her calmly and pays off the family. The famous trampling: no anger, just indifference — Enfield's story gives Hyde his texture before he has a name.
- Who witnesses the murder of Sir Danvers Carew? — A maid looking out her window. Moonlight, a gentle old man, a woman at her window — and Hyde working the cane until it breaks.
- What is the murder weapon, and why does it matter? — A cane Utterson had given Jekyll. The link between the two men arrives at the scene of the crime before anyone understands it.
- Who is Dr Lanyon? — Jekyll's old colleague, who witnesses the transformation and dies of shock. His sealed envelope — 'not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll' — holds the book's hinge.
- What does the butler Poole report about Jekyll in the final week? — A voice from the locked cabinet that is not his master's. Weeks of buying from the same druggist, a cry of 'For God's sake, find some way of breaking in!' — and they bring an axe.
- What does Jekyll's full statement say about the experiment? — The transformations began coming unbidden, and the drug grew unreliable. The salt ran out, substitutes failed, and he woke as Hyde in bed — the cage shrinking one morning at a time.
- What do they find when the cabinet is broken open? — Jekyll's body — Hyde's clothes, dead by his own hand. Twitching, cyanide-phial scent and the smell of the packets: the larger body twitches still, and the papers tell the rest.
About Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A lawyer's questions about a brutal door in a back street uncover the double life of his respectable client: Dr Henry Jekyll, whose experiments split the good in him from the unrestrained Mr Hyde. The Victorian shorthand for the self we keep off the street. The novel runs about 26,000 words (roughly 87 pages in a standard paperback) — about 1 hour and 49 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy — a short, gripping mystery told at a run; Victorian diction with no drag in it. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde sits in our gothic & horror shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
More book quizzes
Frankenstein quiz, Dracula quiz, The Picture of Dorian Gray quiz, Wuthering Heights quiz, 1984 quiz, Animal Farm quiz, Brave New World quiz — or browse every book quiz on the site. For scale, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the 129th longest of the 133 classics timed here — shorter than The Old Man and the Sea but longer than Romeo and Juliet.
Doing the whole author? Our Robert Louis Stevenson books in order guide lists every book with the best entry point.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Robert Louis Stevenson's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde quiz hard?
Easy — a short, gripping mystery told at a run; Victorian diction with no drag in it. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde reading itself?
About 26,000 words — roughly 87 pages, or about 1 hour and 49 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It runs 10 chapters, averaging 2,600 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.