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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what name does Victor refer to his creature when he catches sight of it in a lightning storm?
(a) Demon.
(b) Beast.
(c) Ogre.
(d) Troll.

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

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

5. Where was Victor Frankenstein born?
(a) Ingolstadt.
(b) Naples.
(c) Paris.
(d) Belize.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor claim was the first disaster of his life?

2. Where did Victor’s parents spent the first days of their marriage?

3. What is the cause of Victor’s fever on the night Henry arrives?

4. To where did the creature flee when he first left Frankenstein’s rooms after his awakening?

5. What word does Victor use to describe his creature in the first moments of its life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Victor’s father pursue his old family friend? How does this situation end?

2. Why is Caroline warned against nursing Elizabeth as she suffers scarlet fever?

3. How did Caroline present Elizabeth to young Victor in Chapter 1? How does Victor respond?

4. When Victor recovers from his illness and visits the school to make introductions, how does he feel about his familiar classrooms and his beloved philosophy studies?

5. Which of the novel’s main themes does Robert Walton introduce in his letters to his sister?

6. What does Robert Walton claim the crew of his ship saw the day before picking up Victor? What is unusual about this sighting?

7. What does Victor see when he views the place where his brother’s body was found?

8. Who encourages Victor to continue in his study of philosophy? To what does this lead?

9. Why does Victor rush his journey home at the beginning of Chapter 7? What changes to cause him to delay his trip for a few days?

10. Who sends Victor a letter in Chapter 6 that soothes him from his exhaustion and obsession?

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