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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. Why did Victor rush home as soon as possible after the death of Elizabeth?

2. What did knowledge make the creature aware of in Chapter 13?

3. In what city do Victor and his father stop on their journey from Ireland to Geneva?

4. From what source did Victor often gain strength during his long search for the creature?

5. Why does Victor dread the day of his wedding to Elizabeth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Victor’s father encourage him to set a date for his wedding to Elizabeth?

2. Why did Safie come in search of Felix, as described in Chapter 14?

3. How does the creature respond when he learns that the cottagers plan to move because of their encounter with him?

4. What changes in the lives of the cottagers in Chapter 13?

5. Why does Victor travel to England in Chapter 18? Who travels with him?

6. Why does the creature attempt to kidnap William in Chapter 16?

7. How does Victor explain his appearance on an ice flow in the middle of the Artic Sea?

8. Why does Elizabeth console Victor as they travel to the inn at Evian on their wedding night?

9. What happened the first time the creature came into a village full of people?

10. Why were the cottagers exiled to Germany?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Victor’s relationship with Elizabeth Lavenza. What is the nature of this relationship? Why does Caroline want her son to marry Elizabeth one day? How does Victor feel about this? How does this relationship influence Victor’s actions throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two characters in the novel and describe their feelings of guilt. How do they express their guilt? For what reasons do they feel guilty? How does their guilt influence their actions and emotions?

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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