Explore the depths of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' through this ultimate quiz. Assess your understanding of character reactions, plot nuances, and thematic elements. Ideal for learners seeking to deepen their literary analysis skills.
She was adopted from an impoverished family.
She is the third child their mother died delivering.
She was abandoned on the doorstep one Christmas.
She belonged to a servant in legal troubles.
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Mr. Kirwin, his father’s lawyer, informs Victor of his father’s death.
Victor is accused of Clerval’s murder and must meet with the local magistrate.
An accomplished scientist, Mr. Kirwin has made advances which could help Victor.
Kirwin is actually the creature in disguise checking up on Victor’s progress.
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Victor
The creature
DeLacey
Justine
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Victor
The creature
Elizabeth
Walton
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Elizabeth is guilty of William’s murder.
His family suspects Victor’s creature of the murderer.
Justine is accused of William’s murder.
Victor himself stands accused of the murder.
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Swear never to repeat his horrid experiments
Make him a mate
Promise to locate and care for the DeLaceys
Teach him the ways of human interactionIdentify the speaker unless otherwise indicated
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Separation from family.
The lack of companionship.
His inability to attend Mass.
His love of glory.
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Walton has bombarded him with questions about his past ever since he came on board.
The stranger wants Walton’s opinion of what he should do with his life.
The stranger sees himself in Walton and wants to warn him from following in his footsteps.
The crew threatens to harm the stranger if he does not tell them about himself.
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To serve in the military in Ingolstadt.
To manage his father’s factory in Geneva.
To study at the university in Ingolstadt.
To seek his fortune as a sailor.
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His father has fallen ill with scarlet fever.
Elizabeth has eloped with a local fisherman.
His youngest brother has been found murdered.
His father cannot afford the university tuition.
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Victor
The creature
Elizabeth
Walton
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Victor
The creature
Elizabeth
Walton
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Victor
The creature
Clerval
Walton
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She was killed in a chance farming accident.
She was murdered by the monster.
Her heart failed from a genetic defect.
She contracted an illness while tending Elizabeth
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He wishes to be the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
He is on a voyage of discovery to the North Pole.
He has disgraced his family and is seeking glory to regain his respect.
He races sailboats for profit and has wagered to sail to Russia in three months.
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He considers him a threat to the crew and their mission.
He sees the stranger as a noble creature and strikes an easy friendship with him.
He is deeply disturbed by the stranger’s personality and wants nothing to do with him.
He admires the stranger for his obvious education, but wants to leave him at the next port of call.
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His fascination with the moon.
His ignorance of fire and wine.
His need for a female companion.
The predominance of his physical sensations.
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Gains the lasting acceptance he has so desperately sought
Determines to show humanity the very kindness it has denied him
Lapses into a despair mitigated only by an act of violence
Withdraws from the larger world
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Victor
The creature
William
Felix
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Mary W. Shelley
Victor Frankenstein
Robert Walton
The creature
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Their bitter arguments and screaming at each other.
None, since they abandoned him at birth.
His mother’s tender caresses and father’s smiles.
Their poverty and coldness toward him.
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Provided them sufficient supplies to last the winter
Determined his proper origins
Befriended the children separately
Mastered their language
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The Bible
Paradise Lost
Plutarch’s Lives
Goethe’s Sorrows of Werter
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Victor happily married to Elizabeth.
Victor wrongfully imprisoned for murder.
The hanging of an innocent girl.
Victor destroying his mate’s inanimate body.
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Victor
The creature
Elizabeth
Walton
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To Ireland to study Oriental languages.
Back to Geneva to build a mate for his creature.
To Scotland to fulfill his promise.
To the Arctic to find the North Pole.
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He demands that they relinquish control of the vessel to him.
He refuses to be rescued from the ice until they reveal their destination.
He knows each of them previous voyages and speaks all of their languages.
He seems possessed by unearthly forces.
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Does God really exist?
Where does life itself come from?
What part does morality play in scientific experimentation?
How can disease and suffering be avoided?
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Flees in terror from the thing he had created.
Attacks the creature with a burning torch.
Forces the creature into the courtyard and imprisons it there.
Attempts to communicate with the creature but only angers it in the process.
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His creature has been spotted near the university.
He suffers from a nervous fever for months.
He ends his experiments to resume his studies.
Clerval encourages his experiments.
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Victor’s fears of fulfilling his promise to the creature.
His belief that Victor does not wish to marry Elizabeth but feels bound to do so.
The overwhelming news of William and Justine’s deaths.
The workload of Victor’s studies in Ingolstadt.
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He determines to remain in the Arctic beyond contact with humanity.
He returns with Walton to a new life in the deepest forests of England.
He will destroy himself in a funeral pyre and find solace in death itself.
He will continue to walk the earth until science can find a way to save him from loneliness.
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The creature
Victor
DeLacey
Felix
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William
Safie
Agatha
Justine
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Unlike other fields, science has a definite beginning and end.
Science does not offer much to the mind that questions the universe.
The field of science offers continual discoveries and wonders.
Victor decides that there are too many moral dilemmas in science and he studies English instead.
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The true story of the DeLacey family
Humanity’s capacities for good and evil
His own loneliness
To admire and love the heroes of past ages
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To beg Victor to return and marry her.
To give her condolences on Henry’s murder.
To release him from marital obligations.
To remind him of his duties toward his creature.
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Victor
The creature
DeLacey
Felix
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Night concealed his whereabouts from the creature.
Night reminded him of the death he longed for as release.
In his dreams, Victor was reunited with the dead.
At night Victor would build enormous bonfires for warmth.
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The aerial creations of the poets
The moral relations of things
The metaphysical secrets of heaven and earth
The magnificent appearance of things
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Treasure your childhood friends who know your infantine dispositions and can best judge the integrity of your motives.
Return home as heroes who have fought and conquered and who know not what it is to turn their backs on a foe.
Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
Seek peace in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only to discover yourself in science and discoveries.
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Victor
The creature
Elizabeth
Walton
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He wanted to confer with a renowned scientist whose work would help him fulfill his promise.
He had promised the creature he would visit London and Oxford for souvenirs.
Henry had suggested another walking tour and Victor felt it would help him forget.
He wished to run as far away from the creature as possible.
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Elizabeth
His father
M. Waldman
Clerval
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Victor
Clerval
Elizabeth
Walton
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