Frankenstein Reading Check: Chapters 10 - 11

Identify the speaker: "Cursed (although I curse myself) be the hands that formed you!"

• Victor Frankenstein

• The creature

• Elizabeth

• Victor's father

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Identify the speaker: "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!"

• Victor Frankenstein

• The creature

• Elizabeth

• The old man of the cottagers

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Identify the speaker: "Listen to my tale; when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve. But hear me."

• Victor Frankenstein

• The creature

• Elizabeth

• The young man cottager

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Identify the speaker: "I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept."

• Victor Frankenstein

• The creature

• Elizabeth

• The young woman cottager

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What motivates Victor to follow his creature to his hut?

• By seeing where the creature lives, he can plan an ambush.

• His other brother is held hostage by the creature.

• Victor feels, for the first time, his duties as a creator.

• His creature persuades Victor to forgive him of the murder of William.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is the ultimatum that the creature presents to Victor?

• Fulfill your duties as my creator, or I will kill you.

• Fulfill your duties as my creator, or I will kill your remaining family and friends.

• Fulfill your duties as my creator, or I will reveal my existence to your family.

• Fulfill your duties as my creator, or I will kidnap Elizabeth.

How does Victor feel when he sees his creature bounding over the crevices of ice towards him?

• Utter shame

• Profound sadness

• Dumbfounded speechlessness

• Furious rage

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

How does the creature respond to Victor's initial reaction towards him?

• He says he expected this reaction.

• He is shocked and hurt by this reaction.

• He is terrified by Victor's reaction.

• He weeps.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Which of the following is NOT a word Victor uses to address his creature?

• devil

• vile insect

• my Adam

• abhorred monster

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How does the creature first come into the possession of fire?

• He finds it left behind after a series of wildfires.

• He finds it left behind by wandering beggars.

• Townspeople chase him from town and wield fire to frighten him.

• He scares an old man out of his hut and finds the fire there.

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1