1: How old is Walton at the beginning of the story?
a. 28
b. 34
c. 21
d. 40
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2: What is the name of Walton’s sister?
a. Catherine Beaufort
b. Elizabeth Saville
c. Margaret Lavenza
d. Margaret Saville
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3: Why doesn’t the Russian sailor marry the woman he loves?
a. He is poor and cannot afford to marry a rich lady.
b. Her father wants her to marry another man.
c. She is in love with another man.
d. She does not want to marry the sailor.
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4: Why does Victor tell Walton his story?
a. He wants Walton to write and publish his unusual story in England.
b. He recognizes that he shares with Walton the same fascination with forbidden knowledge.
c. He considers Walton a brother.
d. He wants Walton to pursue the Monster and punish him.
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5: What introduces Victor to the study of electricity and galvanism?
a. A discussion with his father
b. His reading of Cornelius Agrippa, Albert Magnus, and Paracelsus’ theories
c. A conversation with Clerval
d. A violent thunderstorm and subsequent conversation with a famous researcher
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6: What is the cause of death of Victor’s mother?
a. She is too debilitated by the years of poverty and hard work following her father’s financial ruin.
b. She dies giving birth to William, her youngest son.
c. She dies of scarlet fever.
d. She is nursing Justine, the family’s servant, and catches a highly contagious disease.
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7: Where does Victor go to school?
a. Switzerland
b. England
c. France
d. Germany
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8: What causes Victor to change his negative opinions toward modern chemists?
a. M. Krempe shows enthusiasm for Victor’s new program of studies.
b. M. Waldman lectures on the state of modern science.
c. Like old masters of science, modern chemists search for the elixir of life.
d. At Ingolstadt, Victor meets students who introduce him to the extraordinary developments achieved by modern chemists.
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9: What book does Felix use to teach Safie French?
a. Milton’s Paradise Lost
b. Goethe’s Sorrows of Werter
c. Voney’s Ruins of Empires
d. Plutarch’s Lives
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10: Who are the Monster’s first two victims?
a. Father DeLacey and William
b. William and a little girl in the forest
c. William and Justine
d. William and Felix
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11: Why does Victor destroy the nearly finished female monster?
a. He cannot find enough parts to finish the project.
b. Clerval returns unexpectedly from Scotland, and Victor does not have enough time to finish.
c. Victor imagines the Monster and his mate producing a race of monsters.
d. Victor receives a letter from Elizabeth asking him to return immediately to Geneva.
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12: Who summons Victor’s father from Switzerland to visit Victor in prison?
a. A nurse who is taking care of Victor while he is sick
b. Mr. Kirwin, an old and benevolent magistrate
c. Daniel Nugent, a fisherman who appears as a witness
d. Elizabeth
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13: Where does Victor follow the Monster?
a. On a deserted island in Scotland
b. Through Europe
c. Into Russia and the polar regions
d. To Africa
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14: Who says the following: “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept, and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing.”
a. Clerval
b. The Monster
c. Victor
d. Walton
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15: Who says the following: “Think not Walton, that in the last moments of my existence I feel the burning hatred, and ardent desire of revenge, I once expressed, but I feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary.”
a. The Monster
b. Victor
c. Felix
d. Elizabeth
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