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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. How does the creature respond to Victor’s reaction to seeing him?
(a) With anger.
(b) With sympathetic tears.
(c) With homicidal intent.
(d) With understanding.

2. According to Victor, what must one study if they want to examine the causes of life?
(a) The biology of birth.
(b) Recourse to death.
(c) The cause of death.
(d) Biology.

3. What word does Victor use to describe his creature in the first moments of its life?
(a) Horrendous.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Catastrophe.
(d) Fantstical.

4. What does Victor claim was the first disaster of his life?
(a) William's death.
(b) His father's death.
(c) Henry’s bout with the measles.
(d) Elizabeth’s bout with scarlet fever.

5. Growing up, what did Victor desire to learn above all else?
(a) Politics of various states.
(b) Languages and science.
(c) The law.
(d) The secrets of heaven and earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What verdict is handed down at Justine’s trial?

2. Why did Victor’s parents often visit the homes of the poor?

3. In Chapter 9, the Frankenstein retire to their house in what city?

4. After William’s death, where was the locket found?

5. To what does Victor say his friend, Henry, reintroduced him in the weeks after his illness?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why has the creature sought out Victor in Chapter 10?

6. 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?

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

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

9. How does Victor treat the creature when it approaches him in Chapter 10?

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

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