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Frankenstein:
Study Guide
Directions: For the Multiple Choice portion of the test, you will answer ten questions
about important events, characters, and/or conflicts from the excerpts we read.
Questions may be taken from class lecture notes or from assigned reading.
ONLY the following chapters will be referenced for the test:
Ch. 4 Ch. 5 Ch. 7 Ch. 10
Ch. 16
Ch. 17
Ch. 20
Ch. 23
Ch. 24 (Walton, in cont...)
For the quotations portion of the test, six of the following quotations will be
available for you to answer. You will select FOUR of the following quotations and
respond with:
a. Speaker: Identify who says the quotation; choose from the Character List
b. Context: Determine what is happening in the play at this point and identify who the
speaker is addressing/anybody whose presence is important.
c. Summary: Paraphrase what the speaker is saying in the quotation; rephrase any vague
or ambiguous language.
d. Analyze: Assess the significance of the quotation; explain what this quotations tells the
audience about one of the main characters, about that character’s relationship with
another, or about a main conflict in the play.
Character List: may be used as Speaker for quotations more than once or not at all!
R. Walton Elizabeth Victor
Henry Clerval
The Monster
Alphonse (Victor’s father)
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1) “...but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to
doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man.”
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2) “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most
painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if
I had been guilty of a crime.”
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3) “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
Beautiful! Great God!”
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4) “I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale; you look as if
you had been watching for several nights.”
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b. Context: ____________________________________________________________
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5) “Come, dearest Victor; you alone can console Elizabeth. She weeps continually,
and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart.”
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6) “I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, I must be hated,
who am miserable beyond ass living things!”
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b. Context: ____________________________________________________________
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Quotations from Class (in order):
7) “Thus I relieve thee, my creator. Thus I take
from thee a sight which you abhor. Still thou
canst listen to me a grant me thy compassion.”
8) “Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized
me that this little creature was unprejudiced
and had lived too short a time to have imbibed
a horror of deformity.”
9) “Depart to your home and commence your
labors; I shall watch their progress with
unutterable anxiety; and fear not but that when
you are ready I shall appear.”
10) “I was now about to form another being of
whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she
might become ten thousand times more
malignant than her mate and delight, for its
own sake, in murder and wretchedness.”
11) “I will be with you on your weddingnight.”
12) “...and my first impulses, which had
suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying
request of my friend in destroying his enemy,
were now suspended by a mixture of curiosity
and compassion.”
13) “It is well that you come here to whine
over the desolation that you have made. You
throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when
they are consumed, you sit among the ruins
and lament the fall. Hypocritical fiend!”
14) “I shall collect my funeral pile and
consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its
remains may afford no light to any curious and
unhallowed wretch who would create such
another as I have been. I shall die.”
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