Frankenstein Plot recall Quiz

Frankenstein Plot recall questions

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1. To whom are the four letters that open the novel addressed?
   His sister, Mrs Margaret Saville · His ship's master at Archangel · His father, before his death · His uncle Thomas, in London
2. 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
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's mother die shortly before he leaves for Ingolstadt?
   Grief at her own father's death · A long decline after William's birth · Scarlet fever, caught from Elizabeth · Drowning in the lake at Belrive
6. On what kind of night does the creature first open its eyes?
   A frozen night in January · A stormy night in March · A clear night in midsummer · A dreary night in November
7. Who arrives in Ingolstadt the morning after the creation and nurses Victor through his fever?
   M. Waldman · Elizabeth Lavenza · Henry Clerval · His father, Alphonse
8. What news does Alphonse's letter bring Victor at Ingolstadt?
   William has been murdered · Elizabeth has fallen ill · Justine has run away · His father is dying
9. What was taken from William's body and later found on Justine?
   A gold watch of his father's · A miniature of Victor's mother · A silver cross from Geneva · A locket of Elizabeth's hair
10. Which Alpine valley does Victor travel to for relief?
    The shores of Lake Como · The woods above Plainpalais · The valley of Chamounix · The plains near Ingolstadt
11. Who arrives at the cottage in the spring and transforms the creature's education?
    A wandering pedlar · A cousin of Agatha's · Felix's old tutor · Safie, the Turk's daughter
12. Which three books does the creature find in the abandoned portmanteau?
    Paradise Lost, Plutarch, Werter · The Bible, Plutarch, Volney · Paradise Lost, Volney, Werter · Plutarch, Volney, the Koran
13. What does the creature demand at the end of his narrative?
    To be destroyed by his maker · A female of his own kind · A place in his maker's house · Money and a passage abroad
14. Where does Victor set up to build the second creature?
    A cellar in Edinburgh · A room at Oxford · A hut in the Orkneys · A cave near Matlock
15. Whose body is Victor shown in the Irish town?
    William Frankenstein's · An Orkney fisherman's · Justine Moritz's · Henry Clerval's

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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.