Quiz 1 (Frankenstein)

Question 1

Who is Alphonse Frankenstein

Answer 1

Victor’s father
Dies of old age
Is important to the story because he raised Victor sent him to university etc.

Question 2

Victor

Answer 2

Main character
Dies of stress in arctic
Is important to the story because he is the one telling most of it

Question 3

William

Answer 3

Victor’s younger brother
First victim of the monster
Is important to the story because Victor loves him and when the monster kills him Victor feels guilty because he created him

Question 4

Ernest

Answer 4

Victor’s brother
middle child
stays alive

Question 5

Justine Moritz

Answer 5

Family servant to the Frankenstein’s
Executed for allegedly murdering William (framed by the monster)
She is important to the story because Victor feels guilty he did not save her even though he knew the monster killed his brother

Question 6

Elizabeth Lavenza

Answer 6

Victor’s adopted sister
Later in life his wife
Killed by the monster
She is important to the story because everyone in Victor’s family wants them to get married and so does he and she is very important to him

Question 7

The Creature

Answer 7

Created by Victor
Murdered most of the characters
Misunderstood
Is presumed dead (jumps off of Robert Walton’s ship)
Is important to the story because is seen as the villain but is also misunderstood and never shown empathy

Question 8

Henry Clerval

Answer 8

Victor’s bff
Is killed by the monster in Scotland
Is important to the story because he is the best friendship Victor ever had and often advise Victor and his death causes Victor to be arrested for his alleged murder

Question 9

Robert Walton

Answer 9

Captain of the ship to the arctic that finds and saves Victor
Survives and presumably returns to England
Is important to the story because he is recording Victor’s story and saves him from dying in the arctic. He also has similar intrests and personality to Victor before the monster.

Question 10

Margaret (Mrs. Saville)

Answer 10

Robert’s sister
Stays alive
Important to the story because she is essentially supposed to represent the reader

Question 11

Agatha

Answer 11

Cottager
Daughter of Delacy
Sister of Felix
Stays alive
Afraid of monster but model for monster’s personality

Question 12

Felix

Answer 12

Cottager
Son of Delacy
Brother of Agatha
Stays alive
moves houses
Afraid of monster and beats monster with stick which makes him feel rejected. helps shape monster’s personality.

Question 13

Delacy

Answer 13

Cottager
blind
alive
father of Felix and Agatha
Does not see Monster and talks to him unknowingly. Shapes monster as person.

Question 14

Safie

Answer 14

Wife of Felix
Cottager
alive
First romance the monster sees
Has to learn language etc. which helps the monster to learn human ways

Question 15

Geneva Switzerland

Answer 15

Hometown where Victor lives for the majority of his life
Returns here after many encounters with the monster

Question 16

Ingolstadt Barivia (Germany)

Answer 16

Where Victor goes to university to study Natural science
Professors M. Krempe and M. Waldman
Place where the monster is created

Question 17

St. Petersburg Russia

Answer 17

Where Robert Walton begins his journey to the arctic

Question 18

Scotland (Orkney Islands Acrchipelago)

Answer 18

Where Victor begins creating the female creature but ultimately stops because he fears that she will be just like her male counterpart

Question 19

Unnamed village of the coast of Ireland

Answer 19

Where the body of Henry Clerval is found and Victor is wrongly arrested for his murder

Question 20

The Alps

Answer 20

Where Victor sees the monster again for the first time since he abandoned him and the monster tells Victor how he taught himself language and stayed alive etc.

Question 21

North Pole

Answer 21

Where Robert Walton finds Victor after he nearly dies trying to kill the monster
The farthest place the monster is able to run from Victor

Question 22

Plot Summary

Answer 22

The story begins with explorer Robert Walton writing to his sister Margaret to tell her about his plans for an expedition to the arctic. On the way they find a weary looking man wrapped in the body of one of his sled dogs and take him aboard their ship to rescue him. The man seems very frazzled but eventually consents to telling his story to Robert as a warning. We soon find out the man’s name is Victor Frankenstien. He first explains his childhood and relationship with his family and then how he was sent off to study at Ingosladt.

Question 23

What happened to Mary Shelley’s mother

Answer 23

Mary Wollenscroft died 10 days after giving birth