Gris Grisly's Frankenstein Chapter 3

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have rocourse to death. I became aquainted with the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay...of the human body." What does Victor believe he must first understand before he can create life?

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• How the body works.

• What is life

• He must understand death.

• How chemistry works.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a church-yard was...merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which...had become food for the worm" Where is Victor getting the bodies to experiment on?

• the morgue

• the church graveyard

• by murdering people

• from the butcher

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"... I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain."

What did Victor observe while he was grave digging?

• That some people were still alive.

• That vampires were real.

• That worms were making the corpes move.

• Worms eating decomposing bodies.

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

“Remember, I am not recording the visions of a madman...Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable." What is Victor reminding the audience about himself?

• He is not making a monster.

• He is not making a movie.

• He is not insane.

• He is crazy.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.4

Question 5

"...After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of … life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”

What has Victor finally accomplish?

• How to preserve bodies

• How to make worms stop eating dead bodies

• How to make sure the dead stay dead

• How to bring the dead back to life

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.4

“The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture."

How does Victor feel about his accomplishment?

• He is surprised and then very happy.

• He is surprised and then very scared.

• He feels like he needs to hide from the world now.

• He is extremely angry.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"...Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, my work was difficult. But my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to...give life to an animal. Now it needed to be as complex as a man.”

What was the first thing Victor gave life to?

• a human

• an animal

• an inanimate object

• a plant

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

"...But my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to...give life to an animal. Now it needed to be as complex as a man.”

Now that Victor was able to give life to a dead animal, what is his next goal?

• To give life to an ape.

• to raise all the dead

• to bring a person back to life

• To hide what he had done

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.9A

“In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments...I kept my workshop of filthy creation. The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials...I brought my work to a near conclusion.”

Where is Victor's laboratory?

• Far below the ground in a cellar.

• The top floor of his apartment away from everyone else.

• On the roof top of the University labaratory

• Back home in Geneva

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

“Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves--sights which before always yielded me with supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation. The leaves that year had withered away before my work drew near to a close.”

Roughly... How many months does Victor spend alone with his work?

• 2 months

• 4 months

• 22 months

• 8 monthss