View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Victor respond when he sees his creature?
(a) He orders him away.
(b) He begs forgiveness.
(c) He is pleased to see him.
(d) He fleas the area.

2. What mountain range stands above the Chamounix Valley?
(a) Gran Paradiso.
(b) Maritime Alps.
(c) Mont Blanc.
(d) Vanoise.

3. Who promises to try to save Justine from her punishment?
(a) Victor.
(b) Ernest.
(c) Alphonse.
(d) Elizabeth.

4. What does Victor dream about in the hours after he first animates his creature?
(a) A dream of future horrors associated with his creature.
(b) Of future success as a scientist.
(c) Childhood bliss.
(d) A nightmare of Elizabeth.

5. Who was M. Krempe?
(a) A professor who encourages Victor to pursue his studies.
(b) A philosophy professor who criticized Victor for his choice of philosophers.
(c) A cousin of Caroline's.
(d) A new school friend of Victor's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Justine’s mother treat her badly, as reported by Elizabeth in Chapter 6?

2. What is Elizabeth’s first concern addressed in her letter to Victor in Chapter 6?

3. To what does Victor compare his creature when he wakes to find the creature watching him?

4. What does Victor tell Robert Walton that he feels a slave of?

5. What is the profession of Henry Clerval’s father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Caroline first meet Elizabeth? Why does Caroline offer to take the child in?

3. What influenced Victor to begin reading philosophy as a teen?

4. Why is Robert Walton in Russia, and what does he plan to do there?

5. Why does Victor flee his rooms in Chapter 5?

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

7. Who finds Victor after he flees his rooms? Why is this person concerned about Victor?

8. Why does Victor fall into a depression in Chapter 9?

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

10. What aspect of the creature did Victor forget to take into consideration while planning and executing his project?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 766 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample