Frankenstein Ch. 4
Authored by Tana Guerra
English
11th - 12th Grade
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This quiz focuses on Chapter 4 of Mary Shelley's *Frankenstein*, examining Victor Frankenstein's obsessive pursuit of scientific knowledge and his discovery of how to animate lifeless matter. Designed for grades 11-12, these questions assess students' literal comprehension of key plot points, character development, and literary devices such as foreshadowing. Students need strong reading comprehension skills to extract specific details from the text, including Victor's academic focus on natural philosophy and chemistry, his two-year isolation from family, and his realization that he can bring dead things to life. The quiz also requires students to interpret figurative language, particularly Victor's metaphorical description of working through the night, and to analyze the thematic significance of passages that explore the dangerous nature of knowledge. Students must understand character motivation and consequence, recognizing how Victor's scientific ambition leads to his physical and emotional deterioration. Created by Tana Guerra, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 11 and 12. This comprehension quiz serves multiple instructional purposes in the high school English classroom, functioning effectively as a reading check to ensure students have completed and understood the assigned chapter, as a review tool before class discussion of major themes, or as a formative assessment to gauge student comprehension before moving to more complex analytical tasks. Teachers can use this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge at the beginning of a lesson focused on Victor's character development, or assign it as homework to reinforce reading accountability. The questions align with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1 for citing textual evidence to support analysis of literature, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3 for analyzing the impact of author's choices regarding character development, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4 for determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative meanings.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What subjects "became nearly my [Victor's] sole occupation"?
natural philosophy & chemistry
physics & chemistry
sleeping & experimenting
studying & writing
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does Victor mean when he says his work became "so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory"?
It means that he liked looking at the stars while he worked.
It means that he worked all through the night until morning.
It means that it was too cloudy to work.
It means that he left his laboratory only at night.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.L.11-12.5
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many years did Victor devote to his work without seeing his family or visiting home (Geneva)?
4
3
2
1
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In this chapter, Victor discovers that he is "capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter," which means:
He can animate drawings he makes.
He enjoys watching bodies decay.
He cannot bring dead things back to life.
He can bring dead things back to life.
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RI.1.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the following passage foreshadow?: "But the discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result."
doom; something bad is going to happen
happiness; something good is going to happen
nothing
a new baby
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Victor states that acquiring knowledge is "dangerous" and that people who believe their "native town to be the world, than [those] who aspire to become greater than nature will allow," are better off. This is the same things as saying that:
knowledge is awesome
people need to travel more
ignorance is bliss
knowledge is a noble pursuit
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.9
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Once Victor realizes he has the ability to bring dead things back to life, he begins doing what?
gathering bones and body parts from charnel houses and cemeteries
trying to bring dead plants to life first
tell people of his discovery
write down all of his knowledge
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
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