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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. How did the creature address Justine Moritz when he met her?

2. Why does Victor’s father think that Victor avoids social situations?

3. What spurred Victor on despite his frustration and despair when he learned that the creature had set out on the ice of the ocean?

4. From whom does Victor receive a letter in the days before he and his father plan to continue their journey home?

5. What chore did the creature do for the cottagers in the hopes of winning them over?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why were the cottagers exiled to Germany?

3. In Chapter 20, what threat does the creature make against Victor?

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

5. Why has the creature come to grieve his creator? What does the creature plan to do now that Victor is dead?

6. Why does the creature think he might have a good chance of winning the affection of the cottagers if he approaches the father first?

7. What does Victor see at the beginning of Chapter 20 that frightens him and determines him not to finish creating the creature’s companion?

8. Who does Victor learn he has been accused of killing? Who does Victor think is the real murderer?

9. Why does Victor leave his travel companion in Scotland to take a small cottage on a remote island?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the creature’s threats against Victor in Scotland. Why does the creature threaten Victor? How does Victor interpret these threats? Does the creature follow through on his threats? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Victor’s second creature. Why does Victor create a second creature? How does he feel about this creation? Why does he destroy the second creature when it is near complete? What does this decision tell the reader about Victor as a creator?

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