Frankenstein Multiple Choice Comprehension Check Quiz
Name:_____________________Class:_________________Date:___________
__________1. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is composed of elements of which two
literary styles?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Gothic and Romantic
Gothic and Victorian
Modern and Victorian
Victorian and Romantic
_________2. Which two events prompted Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The death of her mother and her lack of formal education
A ghost story competition and a dream
A dream and the death of her child
An argument with her father and the death of her child
_________3. A novel written in the epistolary style means that it is written:
A.
B.
C.
D.
in letter form
in narrative form
in script form
in verse form
________4. What literary device is poet William Blake using here in the first stanza of
the poem “Earth’s Answer”?
Earth rasi’d up her head,
From the darkness, dread, and drear
Her light fled:
Stony dread!
And her locks cover’d with grey despair
A.
B.
C.
D.
allegory
irony
metaphor
personification
________5. The Romantic Era was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that
was a reaction against which historical period?
A. The American Revolution
B. The Industrial Revolution
C. The Renaissance
D. Modernism
_________6. Who is convicted of the murder of Victor’s younger brother, William?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Alphonse Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein
Justine Moritz
Frankenstein’s monster
________7. What characteristics do Victor and Captain Robert Walton share?
A.
B.
C.
D.
ambition and intellect
intellect and shyness
compassion and generosity
affection and ambition
________8. Where does Victor first have a conversation with his creation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
In Victor’s apartment in Ingolstadt
In a field outside of Geneva
On a desolate island off Scotland
In a hut on a glacier near Montanvert
________9. How does Victor’s mother die?
A.
B.
C.
D.
She drowns in a river.
The monster strangles her.
She catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth.
She is executed for murdering William.
_________10. Who takes care of Victor when he falls ill after creating the monster?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Elizabeth
Henry
Alphonse
M. Waldman
__________11. How does the monster learn to speak?
A.
B.
C.
D.
By listening to Felix teach Safie his language
By reading Victor’s journal of his creation of the monster
By learning from Victor
He doesn’t; he is born knowing how to speak.
___________12. Which of the following is NOT one of the alchemists whom Victor
studies in his adolescence?
A. Cornelius Agrippa
B. Lucretius
C. Albertus Magnus
___________13. To whom does Walton address his letters?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Victor Frankenstein
Margaret Saville
Elizabeth Lavenza
Justine Moritz
___________14. The Frankensteins’ family home is in
A.
B.
C.
D.
Luxembourg
Geneva
Chamounix
Ingolstadt
___________15. Victor Frankenstein attends university in
A.
B.
C.
D.
Ingolstadt
Geneva
Edinburgh
Paris
__________16. Which Romantic era poet and painter created the following work of art?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Francisco Goya
Caspar David Friedrich
Lord Byron
William Blake
__________17. Elizabeth, Caroline, Justine, and Agatha are all portrayed as:
A.
B.
C.
D.
arrogant matriarchs
compassionate caretakers
independent spirits
troubled artists
__________18. Mary Shelley’s mother was best known for:
A.
B.
C.
D.
participating as an activist during the French Revolution
being a great beauty and having many admirers
painting dramatic Romantic landscapes
writing one of the first works of feminist philosophy
_________19. The following sentence is incorrect in terms of parallel structure. Read the
sentence and chose the best correction for it:
Jason likes swimming, to hike, and reading.
A. Jason likes to swim, to hike, and reading.
B. Jason likes swimming, hiking, and reading.
C. Jason likes swimming, to hike, and to read.
________20. The following sentence is incorrect in terms of parallel structure. Read the
sentence and chose the best correction for it:
The coach told the players that they should get a lot of sleep, that they should not eat too
much, and to do some warm-up exercises before the game.
A. The coach told the players that they should get a lot of sleep, that they should not
eat too much, and that they should do some warm-up exercises before the game.
B. The coach told the players to get a lot of sleep, to not eat too much, and that they
should do some warm-up exercises before the game.
C. The coach told the players that they should get a lot of sleep, to not eat too much,
and that they should do some warm-up exercises before the game.