Frankenstein Characters Quiz

Frankenstein Characters questions

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

1. What does Walton tell his sister he most wants, even as his ship is fitted out at Archangel?
   A reliable ship's master · A friend to share his mind · More money for provisions · Charts of the northern seas
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. 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
4. What does Victor dream before the creature draws back his bed-curtain?
   The creature speaks to him kindly · Elizabeth becomes his dead mother · His mother refuses to know him · Clerval drowns in the Danube
5. 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
6. What does the creature ask for when he meets Victor on the sea of ice?
   That Victor hear his tale · That Victor kill him outright · That Victor make him a mate · That Victor return to Geneva
7. How does the creature learn what he looks like?
   Agatha screams at the window · He sees himself in a pool · The shepherd calls him a devil · He compares himself to Felix
8. What does Felix's account add about Safie's mother?
   A French lady of Felix's rank · A Turkish noblewoman of Paris · A Genevese of Caroline's family · A Christian Arab, once enslaved
9. Why does the creature choose to speak to old De Lacey alone?
   The old man is deaf as well · Safie has spoken for him · The old man cannot see him · Felix has invited him in
10. What reason does the creature give for his own cruelty?
    He was made with a cruel mind · He was ordered to by Victor · He is malicious from misery · He envies Clerval's friendship
11. What does the creature tell Victor through the window after the destruction?
    That he is now his master · That he forgives him freely · That he will take Elizabeth · That he will leave for Europe
12. Who deals kindly with Victor while he is imprisoned?
    Mr Kirwin, the magistrate · His brother Ernest · The gaoler's wife · Daniel Nugent, a fisherman
13. What does Elizabeth's letter from Geneva ask him?
    Whether he will take orders · Whether she should go abroad · Whether he loves another · Whether Justine was guilty
14. What becomes of Alphonse Frankenstein?
    He takes Victor to Paris · He is killed by the creature · He dies of grief in days · He outlives Victor himself
15. What does Walton chiefly want from the stranger he takes aboard?
    A friend of his own mind · An account of the creature · A surgeon for his crew · Charts of the polar sea

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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.