Frankenstein Themes Quiz

Frankenstein Themes questions

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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 in M. Waldman's lecture rekindles Victor's ambition?
   He credits the moderns with miracles · He praises Agrippa above all others · He mocks the chemists of Geneva · He offers Victor paid employment
3. What warning does Victor break off his account to give Walton?
   That the Pole cannot be reached · That he should burn these letters · That learning can destroy a man · That his crew will mutiny soon
4. What does Victor call William and Justine after the execution?
   The first victims of his arts · Proof of Geneva's injustice · The price of his father's pride · The children of his despair
5. What effect do the mountains above Chamounix have on Victor?
   They make him long for Geneva · They remind him of Ingolstadt · They leave him wholly unmoved · They give him some consolation
6. 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
7. What questions does the creature put to himself once he understands human society?
   Why must men make war? · Who was I? What was I? · What did my maker intend? · Where is my own country?
8. What does the creature do to the cottage after the De Laceys abandon it?
   He follows them to Paris · He waits there through winter · He leaves firewood at the door · He burns it to the ground
9. 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
10. How does the creature keep Victor following him across Tartary and the ice?
    He travels openly by day · He writes to Victor's father · He hires guides against him · He leaves marks and food
11. What does Victor tell Walton's crew when they demand to turn south?
    To go on and be hailed heroes · To turn back and save themselves · To put him ashore at once · To hunt the creature with him
12. Which charge does the creature himself press hardest against Victor?
    He lied to his father twice · He stole from the dead to learn · He would not marry Elizabeth · He made a child and left it
13. 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
14. What does Victor finally say to Walton about ambition?
    He urges him on to the Pole · He blames his father's example · He warns, and then recants · He says nothing of it at all

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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.