WorksheetsDid You Actually Read Frankenstein
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Where does Robert Walton encounter Victor Frankenstein at the beginning of the novel?
In a tavern in Geneva
Stranded on an ice flow in the Arctic Ocean
In the laboratory at the University of Ingolstadt
In the mountains of Mont Blanc
What major scientific ambition drives Victor Frankenstein during his studies at Ingolstadt?
Discovering the philosopher’s stone to turn lead into gold
Inventing a steam-powered mechanical automaton
Inventing a steam-powered mechanical automaton
Bestowing animation upon lifeless matter to conquer death
Finding a permanent cure for scarlet fever
How does Victor react immediately after bringing the Creature to life?
He feels triumph and proudly introduces it to his professors
He locks the creature in an iron cage
He attempts to teach the creature how to speak
He is filled with horror and disgust, fleeing his laboratory
How does the Creature learn language, reading, and human history?
By reading books found in the forest and observing the De Lacey family through a cottage chink
By attending secret lectures at the local village schoolhouse
From handwritten journals left in Victor’s overcoat only
Through instinctive supernatural dreams
Why do the De Lacey family members reject the Creature when they return home?
The Creature attempted to steal their winter food stores
The old blind father screamed for help
They are terrified by his monstrous physical appearance
The Creature accidentally set their garden on fire
What does the Creature Victor to do during their confrontation on the Mer de Glace glacier?
Victor must create a female companion of the same species for him
Victor must confess his crime to the magistrates of Geneva
Victor must give him all his wealth and laboratory notes
Victor must let the Creature live peacefully in the Frankenstein family home
Why does Victor destroy the half-finished female creature in the remote Orkney Islands?
He runs out of laboratory supplies and biological material
Henry Clerval catches him in the act and demands he stop
The local Scottish villagers threaten to burn down his hut
He fears they might produce a new race of creatures
What threat does the Creature make to Victor immediately after the female creature is destroyed?
"I shall burn Geneva to ashes before winter."
"Your father and brother shall die in chains."
"I shall be with you on your wedding-night."
"You will freeze alone in the northern seas."
Who is murdered by the Creature at the Inn in Villa Lavenza on Lake Como?
Alphonse Frankenstein
Elizabeth Lavenza
Ernest Frankenstein
Henry Clerval
What does the Creature say he will do at the very end of the novel after mourning over Victor's corpse?
Build a new laboratory to create his own descendants
Return to Geneva to beg forgiveness from the Frankenstein family
Live peacefully among the indigenous tribes of the Arctic
Travel to the furthest northern ice and burn himself to ashes on a funeral pyre
