Frankenstein Challenge Quiz

Frankenstein Challenge questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. What price does Walton say the knowledge he seeks would be worth?
   Ten years at sea without pay · His whole inherited fortune · A man's life, if it came to that · His sister's good opinion
2. What does the stranger ask before he will consent to come on board?
   Where the ship was bound · Whether a surgeon was aboard · Whether they had seen a sledge · How many men were aboard
3. In the 1818 text, what relation is Elizabeth Lavenza to Victor?
   His mother's younger sister · A ward of the Genevan poor · An orphan of no relation · His cousin, his aunt's child
4. Why does Victor decide to make his creature about eight feet tall?
   The bones he gathered were a giant's · Minute parts would have slowed him · He wanted a servant of great strength · Waldman's machines required the scale
5. What does Elizabeth's letter tell Victor about Justine Moritz?
   She has married a Genevan clerk · She has charge of little William · She has entered a convent · She has come back to the family
6. Why does Justine confess to a murder she did not commit?
   She hoped to shield Elizabeth · She had no memory of the night · She was promised her life for it · Her confessor threatened her soul
7. Which comparison does the creature use for his relation to Victor?
   Cain driven out to wander · Adam turned to a fallen angel · Lazarus called from the tomb · Prometheus chained on his rock
8. Why does the creature put off showing himself to the cottagers?
   To be taken for a Frenchman · To read the books in the house · To master their language first · To preach against his maker
9. Why have the De Laceys left France for a cottage in Germany?
   Felix fought a duel in Paris · Agatha married against the law · Felix freed a condemned Turk · De Lacey lost a lawsuit there
10. What finally moves Victor to agree to make the second creature?
    He fears for his own life · He wants to study the work · Elizabeth begs him to agree · He feels he owes it to him
11. What threat does the creature make as he leaves the Orkney hut?
    To burn the house at Belrive · To be with him on his wedding-night · To follow him to Ingolstadt · To kill his father in Geneva
12. What does Victor promise Elizabeth for the day after their wedding?
    To give up his studies for good · To carry her to Lake Como · To go back to Ingolstadt · To reveal his dreadful secret
13. What did the 1831 revision change about Elizabeth Lavenza?
    She is older than Victor · She is given a Genevan father · She is no longer Victor's cousin · She survives the wedding night
14. Where does the novel place its most violent scenes?
    On board ships at sea · In crowded city streets · In sublime mountain and ice · In Ingolstadt's lecture rooms
15. What does Victor refuse to tell Walton, and why?
    How life may be given · Elizabeth's family history · What Justine confessed to · Where the creature now is

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First published 1818 in three volumes of 23 chapters. This quiz is keyed throughout to the revised 1831 text, whose 24 chapters are through-numbered 1-24; chapter references follow that numbering.

Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.