Study Guide for Frankenstein Test
Write some details about each of the following characters:
Clerval:
Safie:
Felix:
M. Krempe:
Alphonse:
R. Walton:
V. Frankenstein:
Justine:
William:
Elizabeth:
M. Waldman:
De Lacey, Sr.:
Answer the following questions:
1. Why does V. F. tell his story to R. Walton?
2. What is the objective of V. F. early study at the university?
3. What does V. F. mean when he says “And my father’s woe, and the desolation
of that late so smiling home—all was the work of my thrice-accursed hands!”
4. Give a short summary of Felix’s family’s plight.
5. What possession of V. F. does the monster have? How did he get it?
6. Does V. F. tell Elizabeth the story of the monster? Why/why not?
7. How does Frankenstein’s father die?
8. What does V. F. do after Elizabeth dies?
9. What is Walton’s response to his sailors asking him to go home when they are
freed of the ice?
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10. Paraphrase the monster’s reaction to seeing that V. F. is dead.
11. What mythical figure does M. Shelley compare Frankenstein to?
Quotes: Who said it—why is it important?
“Alas! Yes; I cannot withstand their demands. I cannot lead them unwillingly to danger, and I
must return.”
“Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are
enemies.”
“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to
destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly m ix, then that study
is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.”
“But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions. I read it, as I had read the other
volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a true history.”
“Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me?”
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Frankenstein Unit Test: Tuesday, May 14th. Total possible: 129
Test Set up:
1-10: Character Identification (Clerval, Safie, Felix, M. Krempe, Alphonse, R. Walton, V.
Frankenstein, Justine, William, Elizabeth, M. Waldman, De Lacey, Sr.)
11-40 Multiple Choice (Ex. The first person to mention the motif of "the need for a friend in
life" is..., While Victor explored the way things work, his friend Clerval preferred to...)
41-50: Quote Identification (who said it?)"Strange and harrowing must be his story, frightful.
the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it--thus."
51-60: Vocabulary
Short Answer (3 questions)
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