Prometheus and Frankenstein

What is the full title of the the book Frankenstein? 

• Frankenstein:  The Origin of Good and Evil

• Frankenstein: How Paradise was Lost

• Frankenstein: His life and times

• Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus

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Who is the author of Frankenstein?

• Mary Shelley

• Bram Stoker

• Stephen King

• Edgar Allen Poe

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In what year was Frankenstein first published?

• 1918

• 1381

• 1831

• 1818

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In the book’s forward, NYU professor Walter James Miller suggests that Frankenstein keeps us conscious of:

• the nearness of human extinction

• the race to create human cyborgs

• the possibility of eternal life

• the threat of “science run amok”

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Miller writes that Frankenstein was a pioneering work of literature in a genre now called:

• historical fiction

• detective fiction

• science fiction

• crime fiction

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Which of the following events are in the 1831 edition of the book?

• The monster drowns a girl with flowers

• A humpback assistant steals a criminal brain

• Frankenstein is reanimate with a bolt in his neck

• None of the above

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Which of the following ideas did Shelley seek to convey in the book?

• People are born as blank slates that are shaped by society

• Humans tend to judge other people by their character

• Some people are born good

• Some people are born evil

After creating the "monster", Victor associates its ugliness with:

• Good

• Evil

• Uncertainty

• Innocence

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A reader of Foster's chapter on the Bible should make what connection to Shelley's Frankenstein?

• Shelley is a Christ figure

• The fall from grace comes quickly after the creation.

• The "monster" plays God

• Victor is like Adam, the first creation of his kind.

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A reader of Foster's chapter on Greek myth should make what connection to Shelley's Frankenstein?

• Victor is like Icarus, his ambition will be his downfall

• Robert Walton is like Prometheus, the creator of humanity

• The "monster" is like Zeus, king of all

• none are correct

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