Frankenstein chapters 1-5

True or False: Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein as a response to a challenge to write a horror story.

• True

• False

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What is the structure or form of the novel?

• Frankenstein is a frame narrative

• It is historical fiction.

• It is an epistolary novel.

• It is a diary.

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Who was writing the letters?

• They were written by Robert Walton.

• They were written by Margaret Saville.

• They were written by the creature.

• They were written by Victor Frankenstein.

To whom were the letters written?

• They were written to the writer’s sister.

• They were written to the world at large.

• They were written to the writer’s father.

• They were written to the writer’s confessor.

How does Robert feel about Frankenstein?

• He thinks Frankenstein is crazy, but likable.

• He doesn’t like Frankenstein. He thinks he is a liar.

• He doesn’t trust Frankenstein.

• He admires Frankenstein, and hopes they will become friends.

How did Elizabeth come to live with the Frankenstein’s?

• She was left on their doorstep by her poor mother.

• Victor's mother asked the peasants she lived with for permission to raise her.

• She was adopted from an orphanage.

• She was the daughter of Victor Frankenstein’s dead aunt.

True or False: Victor Frankenstein and Henry Clerval had been friends since childhood.

• True

• False

What two major events happened to Frankenstein when he was seventeen?

• His youngest brother was born and he fell in love.

• He received his inheritance and traveled abroad.

• His mother died and he went to the university at Ingolstadt to study.

• He got his first job and moved to his own apartment.

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How did Frankenstein feel when his experiment succeeded, and the creature came to life?

• He was thrilled.

• He was horrified and disgusted.

• He was excited, but scared.

• He felt omnipotent.

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What type of illness afflicted Frankenstein the day after he completed his creation?

• He went crazy, acting like a “mad scientist.”

• He became manic and started thinking of ways to improve his experiment.

• He became depressed and tried to commit suicide.

• He became ill with a fever and delirium for several months.

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