Vocabulary
The sickness mentioned in Chapter 2 that made people very ill and sometimes caused a high fever.
What is Scarlet Fever?
The place where Victor went to school.
What is Geneva?
Victor says he was always interested in learning more about what?
What is he was interested in life and how living things worked?
After making his creation, Victor didn’t write home to his father. Give one simple reason he didn’t write.
What is he felt ashamed, horrified, and afraid to tell his father after creating the creature.
Victor got bad news just before he went back home to Geneva?
What is he got news that William, his youngest brother, was murdered?
The study of substances and how they change.
What is Chemistry?
Victor's mother caught an illness that she died from?
What is she caught Scarlet Fever from Elizabeth?
Victor says to study one thing is to also study another. He recorded: “to study ____ is also to study ____.”
What is to study life is also to study death?
Victor describes his creation with a word meaning “not beautiful” or “scary.”
What is he called it ugly, hideous, or monstrous?
When Victor returned home, he found something in the trees.
What is the creature?
A word for tools or devices used to do a job, like the ones a doctor or scientist might use.
What are instruments?
On her deathbed, Victor’s mother gave an important message to him and Elizabeth.
What is she asked Victor and Elizabeth to love and care for each other and eventually marry?
Name one thing Victor did during his experiment that shows he worked for a long time (an action or a habit change).
What is he worked day and night, stopped eating or sleeping normally, and became isolated.
Victor had a dream that was very upsetting after he made the creature.
What is the creature comes to life and he dreams it harms Elizabeth— Victor wakes terrified?
Victor realized his little brother William had died. What did Victor figure out about how William died?
What is he realizes his creature might be responsible for William’s death?
This word means the act of bringing something into existence, especially something new made by a person.
What is a creation?
Victor meets two teachers. One is strict and one is kind. Which teacher made Victor excited about modern science and new ideas?
Who is Dr. Waldman?
Victor collected materials for his experiment in a way that would worry others.
What is he gathered materials from graveyards and cut up the bodies?
While walking in town, Victor sees someone who surprises him.
Who is Henry?
Elizabeth blames herself for William's death for some reason.
What is she let him wander off on his own?
A word that means something people wear over a bed to keep warm, such as blankets or quilts.
What are bedcovers?
Victor decides not to go home for a long time after college. Give one simple reason from the story why he stayed away.
What is he stayed because he was busy with his studies and experiments and felt guilty/ashamed after the experiment.
Certain things kept Victor going while he worked.
What were his thoughts about creating a new man?
Victor spends the school year very differently after his experiment.
What is Victor spends the school year very differently after his experiment?