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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. Where do Victor and Elizabeth plan to spend their honeymoon?

2. For how long is Victor ill after learning of Henry’s death?

3. Why does Victor say he will not create a second creature?

4. Why Victor decide to dispose of the second creature’s body?

5. What does the creature tell Robert Walton he desired the most from life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Victor see in his honeymoon suite when he returns after searching for his wife’s killer?

2. Why were the cottagers exiled to Germany?

3. In Chapter 22, Victor is given a letter from Elizabeth that expresses her doubts in their relationship. What is the nature of these doubts and where do they come from?

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

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

6. Why did Safie’s father offer Felix her hand in marriage and then take her to Turkey?

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

8. Why does Victor send Elizabeth to their room alone on their wedding night?

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

10. Who does Victor try to enlist to help him find and exact his revenge on the creature?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the novel set? What impact does the setting have on your interpretation of the plot and its conflicts? How does the setting influence the themes of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the creature’s motivations in killing William Frankenstein. How does the creature come to meet William? Why does he try to kidnap him? What causes the creature to kill William? What does he do afterward? What does this tell the reader about his character?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss two important relationships in the novel and their impact on the motivations and actions of each of the characters involved.

a. Victor has a close relationship with his mother at the beginning of the novel. What impact does Caroline Frankenstein have on her son’s growth and maturity? How does Caroline’s actions within the community impact her son’s morality? How does Caroline’s decision to take in two orphaned girls impact her biological children? How does Caroline’s death affect Victor’s s future and actions?

b. Discuss the relationship between Victor and Henry Clerval. How did they meet? How does their childhood friendship affect them in adulthood? Why doesn’t Victor tell Henry the truth about the creature? How does Henry’s death impact Victor, both as a friend and as the accused killer? Why was Henry killed?

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