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History Channel’s Frankenstein
Note: If any question is left unanswered or incorrectly written, there will be a 5 point deduction per question!
No exceptions!
1. Who is Frankenstein?
2. What is the monster in the novel actually called?
3. How is the creature born in the novel compared to films and theater versions?
4. When does the creature turn to murder and mayhem?
5. In the 19th Century, what are ideas that spawned the revolutionary movement?
6. Why do people become evil during the revolution?
7. How old was the author, Mary Shelley when she started writing Frankenstein?
8. What is Mary Shelley’s full name?
9. When was Mary Shelley born?
10. Why was her birth unique or special?
11. What happened 11 days after Mary Shelley was born?
12. What did Mary Shelley’s mother leaver her daughter? (Interesting fact: all the characters die in order of
Shelley’s life).
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2.
13. What was Mary Shelley’s mother considered to be famous for?
14. What was Mary Shelley’s father’s name?
15. What were Mary Shelley’s father’s beliefs?
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b.
16. In the 19th century, what did the science field consist of?
17. What did electricity consist of?
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b.
18. In 19th century, people called themselves:
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b.
19. How did Mary hear about experiments in stolen corpses and hidden experiments?
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20. Who were three of the men who held a large influence over Mary Shelley?
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b.
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21. What did Erasmus Darwin develop?
22. What was mutation considered in the 19th century?
23. What did Humphrey Davey argue about?
24. Luigi Galvani planted “what” in Mary’s mind?
25. What happened in a crowded London theater in 1803?
26. What happened in May 1814?
27. With whom?
28. How old was he?
29. How did Percy Shelley try to cure his sister’s frostbite?
30. Why was Percy Shelley thrown out of Oxford?
31. Why was Percy and Mary Shelley’s relationship, considered unusual during this time period?
32. What rights did women NOT have during the 19th century?
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d.
b.
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33. What was the road block that existed between Percy and Mary Shelley?
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b.
34. Where did Percy and Mary travel to on July 17, 1814?
35. Where did Percy and Mary Shelley travel too?
36. Who owned the abandoned castle?
37. How did Percy and Mary find out about the tale of the castle?
38. What was Dipple doing in the castle?
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39. Why did Mary Shelley become an outcast?
40. Who was this similar too?
41. What did Byron do that caused a great scandal?
42. With whom was Byron having an affair?
43. What happened in June 1816 on Lake Geneva, Switzerland?
44. Who was present on June 15th?
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d.
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45. What proposal was made during this gathering?
46. How did Mary Shelley come up with the idea for her novel? (Hint: know the vocabulary term “Macabre”)
47. Who is the idea of Dracula and who came up with this idea?
48. How is Dracula related to Frankenstein?
49. What did Percy encourage Mary to do?
50. What happened to Percy’s first wife?
51. How long did Percy and Mary Shelley live together?
52. The novel of the story is set in 1797, why is this significant?
53. How long does it take for the novel to be born?
54. Who, on the original publication of the novel, does it state Frankenstein is written by?
55. How many times was the novel turned down by publishers?
56. When was the novel, Frankenstein printed?
57. Many people believed the novel was written by whom?
58. What was believed about the novel?
59. What happened to Clara Shelley?
60. What happened to the Shelley’s second son?
61. On July 8, 1822, what happened to Percy Shelley?
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62. What happened to Percy Shelley’s body?
63. What did Percy Shelley’s death do to Mary?
64. What happened to Mary Shelley after Percy died?
65. How many more novels did Mary Shelley write?
66. Did Mary ever remarry?
67. In 1851, Mary died of what?
68. What happened the year Mary Shelley died?
69. In 1823, what happened regularly?
70. In 1910, was the first
71. In 1931, Boris Karloff did what?
72. Movies seem to misrepresent the elements of what?
73. The novel, Frankenstein, is about
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d.
b.
e.
c.
f.
g.
74. Is this novel considered fiction or science fiction?
75. What is prophetic in the 20th century?
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