How old is Walton at the beginning of the story?
28.
What is the name of Walton's sister?
Margaret Saville.
Why doesn't the russian sailor marry the woman he loves?
She is in love with another man.
Why does Victor tell Walton his story?
He recognizes that he shares with Walton the same fascination with forbidden knowledge.
What introduces Victor to the study of electricity and galvanism?
A violent thunderstorm and subsequent conversation with a famous researcher.
What is the cause of death of Victor's mother?
She dies of scarlet fever.
Where does Victor go to school?
Germany.
What causes Victor to change his negative opinions toward modern chemists?
M. Waldman lectures on the state of modern science.
What book does Felix use to teach Safie french?
Voney's Ruins of Empires.
Who are the monster's first two victims?
William and Justine.
Why does Victor destroy the nearly finished female monster?
Victor imagines the Monster and his mate producing a race of monsters.
Who summons victor's father from Switzerland to visit Victor in prison?
Mr. Kirwin, an old and benevolent magistrate.
Where does Victor follow the monster?
Into Russia and the Polar regions.
Who is convicted of the murder of Victor's younger brother, William?
Justine Moritz.
Who is accused of the murder of Henry Clerval?
Victor Frankenstein.
To whom is Victor taken after Henry is murdered?
Mr. Kirwin.
What is the name of the professor at Ingolstadt who first teaches Victor the methods of modern science?
M. Waldman.
What what is Walton obsessed?
Reaching the North Pole.
Where does Victor first have a conversation with his monster?
In a hut on a glacier near Montavert.
What does the monster want Victor to do to heal his loneliness?
Create a female monster to be his companion.
How does Waltom meet Victor?
Walton finds Victor on the norther ice and nurses him back to health.
Who takes care of Victor when he falls ill after creating the monster?
Henry Clerval.
To which character(s) in Paradise Lost does the monster compare himself?
Adam and Satan.
Why does Victor accompany Henry Clerval on a voyage to England and Scotland?
To work on creating a female monster.
What does the monster think causes Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey to be unhappy?
Poverty.
Which of the following is not one of the alchemists whom Victor studies in his adolescence?
Lucretius.
What do Elizabeth and Alphonse assume is the source of Victor's unhappiness?
Lack of desire to marry Elizabeth.
How does victor react to seeing Henry's corpse?
He falls into a long, feverish illness.
To whom does Walton adress his letters?
Margaret Saville.
Where is the Frankenstein's family home?
Geneva.
Where does Victor Frankenstein attend his university?
Ingolstadt.
Why are Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey so poor?
The French court took their fortune and exiled them from France for helping Safie's father escape from prison.
What is the monster's reward fro saving a girl from drowning?
He is shot.
Why doesn't Victor protect his wife, Elizabeth, from the monster's attack on the night of their wedding?
He misunderstands the monster's warning.
What does Walton do after Victor dies?
He returns to England.
What three books does the monster read?
Paradise Lost, The Sorrows of Werter, and Plutarch's Lives.
Who was Mary Shelley married to?
Percy Shelley.
How did Percey Shelley die?
He drowned.
What kind of a novel is Frankenstein?
A Gothic novel.
How did the novel come to being?
In the summer of 1816, in Geneva, several friends gathered to create and tell ghost stories.
What two of the most important characters of English literature came to be from the summer meeting?
The Frankenstein monster and the Vampire.
How old was Mary Shelley when she began the novel?
19 years old.