Frankenstein Reading between the lines Quiz

Frankenstein Reading between the lines 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 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
2. 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
3. What does Victor do as soon as the creature stirs into life?
   He rushes out of the room · He writes up his journal · He speaks to it gently · He binds it to the table
4. What does Victor see in the storm above Plainpalais that tells him who killed William?
   A light among the trees · Footprints in the wet grass · A huge figure on Mont Salêve · Justine asleep in a barn
5. Why does the creature stop taking food from the cottagers' store?
   He sees that they go hungry · He fears being tracked by it · Felix sets a trap for him · He prefers berries and nuts
6. Which book does Felix read to Safie, and what does the creature learn from it?
   Volney's Ruins of Empires · Milton's Paradise Lost · Plutarch's Lives of the Greeks · Goethe's Sorrows of Werter
7. What does the creature find in the pocket of the clothes taken from Victor's laboratory?
   A miniature of Victor's mother · Victor's journal of the work · Waldman's list of books · A letter from Elizabeth
8. What happens when the creature pulls a girl out of a stream?
   A man shoots him for it · The girl thanks him warmly · Her father offers him work · He is taken for a doctor
9. Why does Victor ask to visit England before marrying Elizabeth?
   To finish the second creature · To settle his mother's affairs · To escape the creature's watch · To consult Waldman's friends
10. What makes Victor tear the half-finished female to pieces?
    Clerval discovers the hut · The creature threatens him · He runs out of materials · He fears a race of them
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. On what grounds is Victor cleared of Clerval's murder?
    The creature's tracks were found · He was in the Orkneys then · Clerval's friends intervene · Kirwin vouches for his character
13. 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
14. Why is Elizabeth alone when she is killed?
    Victor has gone on the lake · Victor is searching the inn · Victor has returned to Geneva · Victor is asleep downstairs
15. What sign marks each of the creature's killings?
    A lock of hair in the hand · Finger marks on the throat · A footprint in the soft earth · A torn coat left behind

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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.