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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is excommunication?

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

3. By what name does Victor refer to his creature when he catches sight of it in a lightning storm?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Robert Walton pleased when Victor Frankenstein is brought aboard ship?

9. What does the creature remember of the first few hours of his life?

10. What is thought to be the motive for William’s murder? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the reactions of people to the sight of the creature. Why are people frightened of the creature? How do they respond to him? How does the creature feel about the way people react to him? What might the creature do to change the way people treat him?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Elizabeth Lavenza. How did she come to live with the Frankensteins? What role does she play in the family? Why does she feel responsible for William Frankenstein’s murder? Why does she try to help William’s accused killer? Why does Elizabeth come to the conclusion that Victor is in love with someone else? How do these combined influences affect her actions?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the creature and Victor. Victor says in the beginning that he made the creature in his own image. What does he mean by this? How are they alike? How are they different? Why does Victor abandon his creation? What does this say about Victor’s relationship with himself? Why does the creature continuously seek out his creator only to torture him?

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