Frankenstein Chapters 1-2 Quiz (Chapters 1–2)

Frankenstein Chapters 1-2 questions

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

1. What office had Victor's father, Alphonse Frankenstein, held in Geneva?
   A professor at the academy · A syndic of the republic · A pastor of the city church · A merchant in the silk trade
2. How did Victor's mother, Caroline, come into his father's protection?
   As a servant in the house · As a cousin from Milan · As his ruined friend's orphan · As a rich merchant's widow
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. Whose volume does the thirteen-year-old Victor find at the inn near Thonon?
   Cornelius Agrippa · Isaac Newton · Plutarch · Humphry Davy
5. How does Victor distinguish his own temper in childhood from Elizabeth's?
   He was patient; she was restless · He sought causes; she sought beauty · He loved company; she loved solitude · He feared books; she devoured them

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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.