Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

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1. Who is convicted of the murder of Victor’s younger brother, William?

2. Who is accused of the murder of Henry Clerval?

3. To whom is Victor taken after Henry is murdered?

4. What is the name of the professor at Ingolstadt who first teaches Victor the methods of modern science?

5. With what is Walton obsessed?

6. Where does Victor first have a conversation with his monster?

7. What does the monster want Victor to do to heal his loneliness?

8. How does Walton meet Victor?

9. How does Victor’s mother die?

10. Who takes care of Victor when he falls ill after creating the monster?

11. How does the monster learn to speak?

12. To which character(s) in Paradise Lost does the monster compare himself?

13. Why does Victor accompany Henry Clerval on a voyage to England and Scotland?

14. What does the monster think causes Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey to be unhappy?

15. Which of the following is not one of the alchemists whom Victor studies in his adolescence?

16. What do Elizabeth and Alphonse assume is the source of Victor’s unhappiness?

17. How does Victor react to seeing Henry’s corpse?

18. To whom does Walton address his letters?

19. The Frankensteins’ family home is in

20. Victor Frankenstein attends university in

21. Which of the following books is not one of those read by the monster?

22. Why are Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey so poor?

23. What is the monster’s reward for saving a girl from drowning?

24. Why doesn’t Victor protect his wife, Elizabeth, from the monster’s attack on the night of their wedding?

25. What does Walton do after Victor dies?

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