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Question 1

Why was Frankenstein created?

Answer 1

Because of a ghost story writing competition proposed by Lord Byron in 1816 while he and three friends were staying at the Villa Diodate by Lake Geneva.

Question 2

What is the second title of Frankenstein?

Answer 2

The Modern Prometheus

Question 3

What did Prometheus do?

Answer 3

He stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mankind.

Question 4

What was Prometheus’ punishment?

Answer 4

He was nailed to a mountain and an eagle was sent to eat his liver, which replenished itself daily, so he would endure an eternal punishment.

Question 5

Who was obsessed with science, exploration and discovery?

Answer 5

The late Georgians (1811-1837)

Question 6

What is the name for the political movement that argued for the importance of science and reason?

Answer 6

The Enlightenment.

Question 7

What group did writers such as Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley belong to?

Answer 7

The Romantics.

Question 8

What did the Romantics focus on?

Answer 8

Personal experience rather than reason, the power and value of nature and radical politics (feminism, anarchism)

Question 9

Why were the Romantics against the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 9

Because the rapid progression of science caused so much damage to nature.

Question 10

Who was Mary Shelley’s mother?

Answer 10

Mary Wollstonecraft.

Question 11

Who was Mary Shelley’s father?

Answer 11

William Godwin.

Question 12

Why did Shelley face ostracism?

Answer 12

Because her and Percy Shelley travelled around Europe and when they returned, Shelley was pregnant. Her father rejected her.

Question 13

When did Shelley’s mother die?

Answer 13

Less than a month after she was born.

Question 14

What is the name for the pseudo-science that suggested a person’s character could be determined by their appearance?

Answer 14

Physiognomy

Question 15

What was the name of the physicist related to Physiognomy?

Answer 15

Lombroso

Question 16

What did Lombroso believe?

Answer 16

That criminality was inherited and that criminals could be identified by physical attributes such as hawk-like eyes and bloodshot eyes

Question 17

Which Revolution happened in the late 1700’s?

Answer 17

The French Revolution

Question 18

Why did the revolution begin in 1789?

Answer 18

Food shortages, poor housing, disease, exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoise

Question 19

What is the sublime?

Answer 19

A feeling the Romantics wrote about - awe and wonder evoked by the power of nature.

Question 20

Which Latin term translates to ‘Blank Slate’?

Answer 20

Tabula Rasa

Question 21

Which philosopher is associated with Tabula Rasa?

Answer 21

John Locke

Question 22

What was John Locke’s essay called in which he discussed Tabula Rasa?

Answer 22

Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

Question 23

Who wrote Paradise Lost?

Answer 23

John Milton (1667)

Question 24

What is Paradise Lost?

Answer 24

An epic poem written in blank verse about the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Question 25

What did Milton state the purpose of Paradise Lost is?

Answer 25

To “justify the ways of God to men”

Question 26

What is the name of the narrative?

Answer 26

Framed narrative

Question 27

What does epistolary mean?

Answer 27

Written in letter form

Question 28

What was there a fear of in the 18th and 19th century?

Answer 28

Grave robbing

Question 29

What act was brought in in 1752?

Answer 29

The Murder Act

Question 30

What did the Murder Act (1752) say?

Answer 30

Murderers would be hanged and their bodies used for science

Question 31

What quote did Shelley use to describe her desire for Frankenstein?

Answer 31

“Curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart”