Victorian Era Milestones and Whitechapel Mysteries

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The 1880s: A Decade of Innovation and Change

Key Events and Inventions (Page 5)

Exercise 1: Historical Milestones

  • 1885: First modern bicycle; Benz’s three-wheeled vehicle that used petrol.
  • 1886: Coca-Cola appears; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published.
  • 1887: Dunlop’s pneumatic tyre; Sherlock Holmes introduced; Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.
  • 1888: Stage play of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Berliner’s gramophone; First Kodak box camera; Whitechapel murders begin.

Exercise 2: Open Answers (Page 5)

Open answers.

Social Observations and Daily Life (Page 10)

Exercise 1: Interpreting a Scene

  1. He is selling newspapers to people in the street.
  2. He is selling some kind of food.
  3. They are talking.
  4. The boys are looking at the other people.

Exercise 2: Social Class and Observation

The man and woman on the right are obviously richer than the other people in the scene. The boy selling the newspapers, the other children, and the man with the basket are obviously poor.

Chapter One: The Whitechapel Murders

Page 10 Exercises

Exercise 1: London Docks and Whitechapel Life

  1. in London Docks changed
  2. went to watch the fire.
  3. in the streets and slept
  4. it was cheap
  5. was drinking too much.
  6. she had no money.
  7. did not have many street lamps.
  8. at 2:30 AM on August 31st
  9. person saw her alive again – her killer.

Page 17 Exercises

Exercise 1: Polly Nichols Case Details

  1. Because the weather was cool.
  2. There was a great fire.
  3. In lodging houses.
  4. On drink.
  5. Because it was a poor area.
  6. At 2:30 AM on August 31st.
  7. In front of Brown’s stableyard.
  8. Constable Jonas Mizen / A policeman.
  9. In their bedroom (on the 2nd floor).
  10. Ellen Holland.
  11. He strangled her and cut her throat.
  12. It was new and unknown.

Pages 17-18 Exercises

Exercise 2: Sequencing Events and Identifying Individuals

Part A:

  1. 4
  2. 1
  3. 6
  4. 3
  5. 2
  6. 5

Part B:

  1. Charles Cross discovered the body.
  2. Mr. and Mrs. Purkiss were trying to sleep in their bedroom.
  3. The killer probably escaped into Whitechapel Road.

Page 18 Exercises

Exercise 3: Multiple Choice Answers

  1. C
  2. A
  3. D
  4. B
  5. D
  6. B
  7. C
  8. B
  9. C
  10. A

Pages 18-19 Exercises

Exercise 4: Describing Whitechapel and its Inhabitants

Part A: Adjectives

  1. clever, efficient, savage
  2. drunk, clean, quiet, good
  3. cool
  4. dark, gloomy, dangerous, dirty, cold, wet
  5. crowded, noisy
  6. quiet, narrow, dark

Part B: Nouns Described

  1. The Whitechapel streets
  2. The people of Whitechapel
  3. The lodging houses
  4. Alcohol
  5. The sky
  6. Inspector Abberline

Page 19 Exercises

Exercise 5: Matching Individuals and Roles

  1. Constable John Neil: Found the body of Polly Nichols.
  2. Polly Nichols: Got drunk, was murdered.
  3. Inspector Abberline: Investigated the murder.
  4. Jack the Ripper: Killed Polly Nichols.
  5. Ellen Holland: Talked with Polly Nichols.
  6. Charles Cross: Found the body of Polly Nichols.

Page 20 Exercises

Exercise 6: Sequencing Events

  1. 4
  2. 2
  3. 6
  4. 1
  5. 7
  6. 3
  7. 8
  8. 5
  9. 9
  10. 10

Exercise 7: Open Answers

Open answers.

Chapter Two: The Annie Chapman Case

Page 21 Exercises

Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Answers

  1. A
  2. A
  3. B
  4. C
  5. C

Page 29 Exercises

Exercise 1: Matching Terms

  1. d
  2. b
  3. i
  4. a
  5. k
  6. d
  7. h
  8. l
  9. j
  10. c
  11. e
  12. g

Page 30 Exercises

Exercise 2: Sentence Completion / Relative Clauses

  1. The inspector saw some objects that the killer had put near Annie’s feet.
  2. Mrs. Richardson, who lived with her grandson, let out other rooms.
  3. The passage, which was 7-8 meters long, went through the house.
  4. John Richardson took off one of his boots, which was hurting his toe.
  5. Annie Chapman, whom Mrs. Darrell identified later, was talking to a man.
  6. Jack the Ripper, who was in a dangerous situation, escaped through the streets.
  7. The attic room that John Davis occupied looked over Hanbury Street.
  8. The man Mrs. Darrell saw was taller than Annie.
  9. Annie met her friend Amelia Palmer, who gave her two pennies.
  10. Amelia Palmer, who was Annie’s friend, gave her some money.

Page 31 Exercises

Exercise 3: Completing Descriptions

  1. was walking down Hanbury Street
  2. noticed/saw a man and a woman
  3. outside
  4. didn’t see the man’s
  5. Will you
  6. short
  7. than the woman
  8. dark coat
  9. he was over
  10. was foreign