Answer on a separate sheet or the monster will find you!!!
The Letters
1) Where is Robert Walton in Letter 1 and to whom is he writing?
2) Where is Walton going and what is the reason for his journey?
3) What did Walton study during his childhood?
4) What other career did he pursue when he was unable to follow his dream? Was he successful?
5) What finally enabled Walton to go on this expedition?
6) How did he train for his voyage?
7) In Letter 2, what is the one thing Walton wishes he had with him?
8) What Romantic characteristics does Walton display?
9) In Letter 4, what strange sight does Walton see on the ice?
10) What do the sailors find the next day?
11) Give an example of foreshadowing in Letter 4.
Chapter 1
1) What are Victor’s parents’ names and how did they meet?
2) How does Victor meet Elizabeth Lavenza?
Chapter 2
1) Who is Henry Clerval? What kinds of things is he interested in?
2) What kind of childhood does Victor have?
3) What does Victor like learning about when he is a child?
4) What happens to Victor when he is about 13?
5) What is the importance of the storm Victor witnesses when he is around 15?
Chapter 3
1) What is the name of the college Victor attends?
2) How does Victor’s mother die?
3) What does Victor think of M. Krempe?
4) What does Victor think of M. Waldman?
Chapter 4
1) Where does Victor go to study anatomy and decomposition?
2) Is Victor a superstitious person?
3) What is the main focus of Victor’s research?
Chapter 5
1) What is the season when Victor creates his monster?
2) Give a description of the monster.
3) What is Victor’s reaction when the monster comes to life?
4) What does Victor dream about after creating the monster?
5) Who nurses Victor back to health when he is sick?
Chapter 6
1) According to Elizabeth’s letter, what does Victor’s brother Ernest want to do?
2) Who is Justine Moritz and what is her connection to the Frankensteins?
3) Who is William?
4) What happens to Victor when he sees chemical instruments?
5) What does Henry talk Victor into studying?
Chapter 7
1) What has happened to William?
2) Why does Elizabeth blame herself for what happened?
3) How long has it been since Victor’s been home?
4) Where does Victor find the monster?
5) How long has it been since the monster’s creation?
6) Who has been accused of murder and why?
Chapter 8
1) What is Justine’s behavior like at the trial?
2) What does Elizabeth do to help Justine?
3) Why does Justine confess?
Chapter 9
1) Why does Victor decide not to kill himself?
2) How has Elizabeth changed because of Justine’s death?
Chapter 10
1) Where does Victor go to be alone?
2) What is his reaction when the monster tries to talk to him?
3) What does the monster ask Victor to do?
Chapter 11
1) Who is the narrator?
2) How does the monster survive after his creation? Where does he go?
Chapter 12
1) What does the monster do to help the cottagers that he has been watching?
2) How does the monster learn to speak?
Chapter 13
1) Who is Safie?
2) How does the monster learn about history, science, and religion?
Chapter 14
1) Why did the De Lacey family have to leave France?
Chapter 15
1) How does the monster find out about how he was created?
2) Why does the monster wait to talk to Mr. De Lacey when he is alone?
3) What happens when the other De Laceys return to the cottage?
Chapter 16
1) What does the monster set on fire?
2) Where does he decide to go?
3) What happened when the monster saved a little girl from drowning?
4) What does the monster plan to do with the little boy he finds?
5) What makes him change his mind about this plan?
6) What demand does the monster make to Victor?
Chapter 17
1) What will the monster do if Victor makes a mate for him?
Chapter 18
1) What does Victor’s father think is wrong with him?
2) Where does Victor need to go to get ready?
3) Who is going with him?
4) When does Victor plan to marry Elizabeth?
Chapter 19
1) Where does Victor set up his new lab?
Chapter 20
1) What makes Victor change his mind about building a new creature?
2) What does the monster do when he finds out that Victor won’t help him?
3) Where does Victor find himself after his boat drifts?
4) Who is Mr. Kirwin? What kind of a man is he?
Chapter 21
1) Why is Victor suspected of a crime?
2) What does laudanum do?
Chapter 22
1) What does Elizabeth ask Victor in the letter he gets from her?
2) What does he write back to her?
Chapter 23
1) Why does Victor leave Elizabeth alone?
2) How does Victor’s father die?
Chapter 24
1) What is the one thing that keeps Victor alive?
2) Where does Victor run into the monster?
3) Why does Victor live night?
4) Why does the monster leave food and messages for Victor?
5) What promise does Victor ask Robert Walton to make?
6) What proof does Victor give to show that his story is true?
7) Why do the sailors threaten mutiny?
8) What does the monster tell Walton?