Frankenstein
After reading Victor’s notebook and changing his behavior, the creation makes a serious demand and forces Victor to agree to this.
What is a deal (to create a companion/partner for him)?
This is the island country off the coast of Florida where the narrator's mother grew up.
What is Cuba?
This specific legal system in South Africa institutionalized oppression by forcing people of different skin colors to live apart.
What is Apartheid?
This fundamental type of sentence contains exactly one subject and one verb, and expresses a single, complete independent thought.
What is a simple sentence?
This 6-letter word means a state of balance, inactivity, or having little to no change, like a perfectly flat lake with no waves.
What is stasis?
DAILY DOUBLE! - You get 2 chances to answer this correctly.
He is the very first narrator of the book who writes letters to his sister while sailing towards the North Pole.
Who is R. Walton?
This historical proxy conflict and period of deep global fear between the US and the Soviet Union forms the backdrop of the book.
What is the Cold War?
This famous political figure was imprisoned for many years before fighting for equal rights and becoming the President of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This grammatical term describes a word part like a prefix or a suffix that is added to the root of a word to alter its overall meaning.
What is an affix?
This word means to completely remove or eliminate unwanted things or people, like clearing old clothes out of a closet.
What is purge?
In Chapter 3, Victor begins performing experiments with grim results because he secretly wishes to accomplish this scientific feat.
What is "create life"?
This specific economic and government system aims to share wealth equally among all citizens.
What is Communism?
DAILY DOUBLE! - You get 2 chances to answer this correctly.
These specific white South Africans are descendants of the original Dutch colonizers who held power during Apartheid.
Who are Afrikaners?
This punctuation mark is strictly used to introduce a formal list, draw focus to an important statement, or introduce a direct quote.
What is a colon?
This noun describes when a group in power treats others in a cruel, unfair, or deeply controlling way, such as erasing a population's memories.
What is oppression?
This is the country where the creature encounters and watches a family called the DeLacys living in a cottage.
What is Germany?
During the height of the missile crisis, the narrator's school makes students participate in these emergency safety drills.
What are nuclear drills (or "Duck and Cover" drills)?
Because it was illegal for a white person and a black person to have a child together under Apartheid, Trevor's very existence meant he was "born" this.
What is a crime?
To show your understanding of the text, you are able to put the text into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
DAILY DOUBLE! - You get 2 chances to answer this correctly.
This vocabulary word means a general agreement made among an entire group of people, such as picking a field trip destination.
What is consensus?
Following another murder and a broken agreement, Victor spends Chapter 12 doing this action all over the world.
What is chasing/pursuing the monster?
DAILY DOUBLE! - You get 2 chances to answer this correctly.
Because Cuba and the United States severed diplomatic relations, the narrator's mother, Mami, is left with this legal status.
What is "stateless"?
This heavily monitored, all-black South African township is where Trevor’s grandmother lived and where Trevor spent much of his childhood hiding.
What is Soweto?
Clues within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meaning of new words.
What are context clues?
Meaning something is capable of working successfully or functioning effectively, a team must find this kind of solution to fix a broken robot.
What is viable?