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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

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

(A) Alphonse Frankenstein

(B) Victor Frankenstein

(D) Frankenstein's monster

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

(A) Victor Frankenstein

(B) Robert Walton

(D) Justine Moritz

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

(A) M. Kempe

(B) His father

(D) Mr. Kirwin

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

(A) Krempe

(B) Clerval

(D) Beaufort

5. With what is Walton obsessed?

(A) Creating life

(B) Reaching the North Pole

(D) Discovering the source of the Earth's magnetism

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

(A) In Victor's apartment in Ingolstadt

(B) In a field outside of Geneva

(D) In a hut on a glacier near Montanvert

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

(A) Create a female monster to be his companion

(B) Accept him into his family

(D) Work to make him appear less hideous

8. How does Walton meet Victor?

(A) They work in the same laboratory on an island off Scotland

(B) Walton escorts Victor northward in pursuit of the monster

(D) They are students together at Ingolstadt

9. How does Victor's mother die?

(A) She drowns in a river

(B) The monster strangles her

(D) She is executed for murdering William

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

(A) Elizabeth

(B) Henry

(D) M. Waldman

11. How does the monster learn to speak?

(A) By listening to Felix teach Safie his language

(B) By reading Victor's journal of his creation of the monster

(D) He doesn't; he is born knowing how to speak

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

(A) Adam and Eve

(B) Satan

(D) Adam and Satan

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

(A) For entertainment

(B) To track down and destroy the monster

(D) To study science

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

(A) The death of De Lacey's wife

(B) The loss of Safie

(D) His own presence

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

(A) Cornelius Agrippa

(B) Lucretius

(D) Paracelsus

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

(A) Disappointment in his studies at Ingolstadt

(B) Guilt about creating a monster

(D) Lack of desire to marry Elizabeth

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

(A) He has no reaction

(B) He denies that he is the murderer

(D) He falls into a long, feverish illness

18. To whom does Walton address his letters?

(A) Victor Frankenstein

(B) Margaret Saville

(D) Justine Moritz

19. The Frankensteins' family home is in

(A) Luxembourg

(B) Geneva

(D) Ingolstadt

20. Victor Frankenstein attends university in

(A) Ingolstadt

(B) Geneva

(D) Paris

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

(A) Paradise Lost

(B) The Sorrows of Werter

(D) The Inferno

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

(A) They were born poor

(B) Safie's father stripped them of their fortune

(D) Felix spent the family's money courting Safie

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

(A) He is shot

(B) He is given a meal and a room and place to stay

(D) He is cursed and ignored

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

(A) He does not think the monster will come

(B) He thinks that Elizabeth can protect herself

(D) He doesn't love Elizabeth anymore

25. What does Walton do after Victor dies?

(A) He continues toward the North Pole

(B) He remains stuck in the Arctic ice

(D) He pursues Frankenstein's monster

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