Plot I
True or False: Victor says that no youth could have passed more happily than his.
What is true?
This is one strange quality of the first "being" R.W. initially notices on the plains of ice in Archangel, saying he had the "shape of a man, but" was also ___.
What is gigantic?
Mrs. Saville receives R.W.'s letters in this country.
What is England?
What is hyperbole?
This is the reason Elizabeth comes to live with Victor when he's a child.
This family member dies in Chapter II.
Who is Victor's mother?
R.W. writes that though his sister "may deem [him] a romantic....[he] bitterly feels the want of ______."
What is a "friend?"
This is the city in which Victor was born.
What is Geneva?
"I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been." This comparison between wishes and a serpent is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
This is how Elizabeth reacts to Caroline's death.
What is, she consoled Victor and his father, took care of his brothers, and tried to make everyone happy?
This is what the European man says when he could finally speak after two days aboard R.W.'s ship, in response to the question, "Why had he come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle?" (This answer doesn't need to be exact).
R.W. first discovered his love for adventure when reading in this relative's library.
Who is Uncle Thomas?
This is where R.W. wants to study magnets.
What is, the North Pole?
"I loved to tend on her, as...a favourite animal." This comparison is an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
This is how Victor's father responds when he finds him reading Agrippa.
What is, he tells him it's trash and says to stop wasting his time?
This is the advice M. Waldman gives to Victor if his "wish is to become really a man of science."
What is, study every branch of natural philosophy, including math?
This person as the "son of a merchant of Geneva, an intimate friend of [Victor's] father."
Who is Henry Clerval?
R.W.'s letters mark his journey from St. Petersburg to this northern Russian city.
What is Archangel?
When Victor's mother gets sick with the scarlet fever, he says her illness became "malignant." This is the definition of malignant.
What is, dangerous and harmful?
This character believes he is "more illiterate than many school-boys of fifteen."
Who is Robert Walton?
M. Waldman says he is happy to have gained this after meeting Victor.
What is a "disciple?"
As a child, Victor is obsessed with the scientific works of this author.
Who is Cornelius Agrippa?
When Victor is seventeen, his parents send him to this university.
What is the university of Ingolstadt?
These are the first person speakers of the epistolary section AND Chapters I and II. Respond with 2 names.
Name the speaker: "I have lost everything, and cannot begin life anew."
Who is Victor?