characters
cringe moments
creation
conflicts
contexts
100

Driven by his desire to know the secrets of life and nature, this character neglected friends, family, and nature to create a life form, which he promptly abandons. 

Who is Victor Frankenstein? 

100

On her deathbed, Victor's mother says she hopes for these two people to get married. 

Who are Elizabeth Lavenza and Victor Frankenstein?

100

This creator, named in the book's subtitle, is said in Greek myth to have created people out of clay and brought them fire against Zeus' wishes

Who is Prometheus? 

100

At the end of his narrative, the Creature asks Frankenstein for this. 

What is a companion / mate ?

100

This is the correct spelling of the last name of Frankenstein's author

What is S-H-E-L-L-E-Y?

200

Created from discarded body parts, this character kills William Frankenstein and frames Justine Mortiz.

Who is the Creature / Frankie / Vicky / Adam?

200

After realizing he definitely should not have made a Creature, Victor dreams that he is going to embrace the beautiful Elizabeth when she turns into this.

What is his dead mom? 

200

Failing in both prudence and temperance, Frankenstein chose this size of body parts so that he can build his Creature more quickly and easily. 

What is LARGE?

200

This book was one that helped the Creature learn (multiple possible answers)

What is Ruin of Empires, Paradise Lost, Werter, Plutarch, or Victor's journal

200

Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley is associated with this movement that values intuition, individualism, and nature.

What is (British) Romanticism?

300

This character is on an exploration of discovery to the North Pole.

Who is Robert Walton? 

300

While leaning over this person who he is about to frame for murder, the Creature whispers, 'Awake, fairest, thy lover is near—he who would give his life but to obtain one look of affection from thine eyes: my beloved, awake!'

Who is Justine Moritz?

300

This author published Paradise Lost, an epic retelling of the creation story, in 1667. 

Who is John Milton?

300

This is the only person brave enough to speak up for Justine at her trial. 

Who is Elizabeth? 

300

Mary Shelley came up with the idea for Frankenstein during a ghost story competition while visiting this Romantic poet with her husband Percy

Who is (Lord) Byron?

400

These two characters fell in love despite not speaking the same language. 

Who are Felix and Safie

400

Victor must run ahead to make sure his Creature's not in his rooms after the surprise arrival in Ingolstadt of this old friend. 

Who is Henry Clerval? 

400

In her 1831 introduction to the novel, Mary Shelley refers to her novel as this, emphasizing that an author is like a parent. 

What is "my hideous progeny"?

400

This is the item that the family believed was stolen from around William's dead neck. 

What is a miniature image of Caroline Beaufort? 

400

This sonnet by Percy Shelley about a recently unearthed statue resulted from friendly literary competition.

What is "Ozymandius"?

500

The dead mother of Victor, Ernest, and William, this character nursed her father in his last days, and she nursed Elizabeth when she had scarlet fever

Who is Caroline Beaufort? 

500

What was the name of Percy Shelley's first wife who drowned herself while pregnant after he left her? 

What is Harriet? 

500

This is the Creature's reward for saving a young girl from drowning. 

What is being shot? 

500

These are the names of Mary Shelley's parents. 

Who are William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft?