Frankenstein Intro and Background

How old was Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein?

• 18

• 21

• 35

• 42

Which describes Mary Shelley's childhood?

• self-taught and raised in poverty

• raised by a feminist and an atheist intellectual

When was the Frankenstein novel first published?

• 1805

• 1818

• 1823

• 1828

How many kids had Mary Shelley had when she wrote Frankenstein?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake are the Big Six of --

• Gothic literature

• Enlightenment literature

• Romanticism literature

The use of the epistolary (letter) form was __ at the time.

• common

• rare

The goal of using an epistolary form or a frame story is

• to make the story more emotional in order to connect to the reader

• to make the story more realistic

• to make the story easier to read

Who were the letters written to?

• the Monster

• Robert Walton

• Walton's sister

• Victor Frankenstein

The Enlightenment included all of the

• 16th century

• 17th century

• 18th century

Which statement is NOT true?

• Enlightenment thinkers emphasized the importance of reason rather than faith. 

• The Romantics focused on the importance of emotion and imagination. 

• The Romantics were preoccupied with the importance of Nature as a means of connecting with emotions.

• Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau were central figures of the Enlightenment.

• The Enlightenment happened in response to the excessive emotionalism of the Romantics.