Frankenstein Chapters 1-2

Beaufort is important to the narrator because:

• He was the narrator's father

• He used to be the Mayor of Genavese

• His daughter is the narrator's mother

• None of the above

Why did Beaufort retreat to the town of Lucerne?

• He found a new occupation more to his liking.

• He was ashamed of who he had become, a man who had squandered away his fortune due to numerous mischances.

• He needed to move to a more suitable climate for his failing health.

• He was exiled their by the Genavese government.

How do you feel after reading the excerpt from the novel informing us that the narrator's father married the daughter of the father's best friend?

As a child, the narrator was largely ignored by his parents.

• True

• False

• Not enough info to answer question

• None of hese choices

Do you think that the narrator's parents would've adopted his sister if she had looked similar to the other girls she was grouped with when they came across her? Why do you feel the way you do?

Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and the lips and moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold on her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features. Choose the best meaning of "cloudless" as used in this passage.

• Clear, Intelligent

• Without worry

• Quiet, thoughtful

• Distant, not being of sound mind

We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin. No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me—my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.

Is this a normal way to feel about your adopted sister?

Why was the narrator "indifferent" to his school fellows in general

• He didn't get along with most of them, so he ignored them.

• He was smaller than the other children so was scared to approach them.

• They weren't as intelligent as he was.

• His temperment was to naturally avoid crowds.

The narrator's greatest interests were that of the

• physical secrets of the world.

• desire to learn

• inner spirit of nature

• study of religion

Read the following excerpt from Frankenstein: "As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump. When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I had never beheld anything so utterly destroyed."

Why might this be an important event in the narrator's character development?