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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is excommunication?
(a) Being forced out of one’s home and moved into another.
(b) A form of execution in which a prisoner is starved to death in a locked, isolated cell.
(c) The inability to speak to one’s friends or family members.
(d) A religious censure that keeps a Catholic from receiving absolution.

2. How does Justine die?
(a) She is killed in a freak electric storm.
(b) The creature murdered her.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) She is executed.

3. Who eventually found William’s murdered body?
(a) The magistrate.
(b) Justine.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Vistor's father.

4. What does Victor tell Robert Walton that he feels a slave of?
(a) His creature.
(b) His profession.
(c) His passions.
(d) His wife.

5. What color eye does Victor’s creature have?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Gold.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

6. How does Robert Walton come to meet Victor Frankenstein?
(a) Walton is Elizabeth's long lost brother.
(b) They went to school together.
(c) Walton and his ship’s crew rescue Victor from an ice flow.
(d) They were childhood companions.

7. What religious beliefs caused Justine’s mother to call her daughter back home?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Roman Catholic.

8. What scarce necessity drove the creature to approach a shepherd’s dwelling after fleeing Frankenstein’s rooms?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Food.
(d) Heat.

9. What excuse does Victor give Henry for his poor appearance in Chapter 5?
(a) His professors have been pushing him too hard at school.
(b) He is coming down with the flu.
(c) His work has kept him from sleep.
(d) He has been suffering from a lack of fuel for his stove.

10. After his mother’s death, what was one of the reasons why Victor delayed his departure to university?
(a) To help Elizabeth through her grief.
(b) To console family members.
(c) The plan his mother's funeral.
(d) To help his father settle the estate.

11. In what month does Victor finally find success at his experiment?
(a) December.
(b) July.
(c) November.
(d) April.

12. Does Victor believe Justine is guilty of her crime?
(a) Yes - she is the true criminal.
(b) No – she had nothing to do with it.
(c) He does not believe her capable of the crime, but wonders if she might have offered assistance to the true criminal.
(d) He is keeping an open mind until all the evidence is presented.

13. Who was Beaufort?
(a) A business partner of Alphonse.A business partner of Alphonse.
(b) Caroline's father.
(c) A childhood friend of Victor's.
(d) Victor's cousin.

14. What is the cause of Victor’s fever on the night Henry arrives?
(a) The plague.
(b) A simple cold.
(c) Nerves.
(d) Scarlet fever.

15. Which of the following did Victor claim to have discovered through his laboratory work?
(a) The way in which the brain functions.
(b) The ability to animate lifeless matter.
(c) The action of the human heart.
(d) The system by which air circulates within the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days after being exposed to illness did Caroline become ill in Chapter 3?

2. Before her death, how does Justine spend her final moment with Elizabeth?

3. Upon arrival, why is Victor unable to enter his hometown?

4. Where does the creature take Victor at the end of Chapter 10?

5. What subject did Henry’s father tell him repeatedly he could make good money without knowing?

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