Characters
Events
Literary Elements
Historical Context
Literary Connections
100
Successfully reanimates the dead
Who is Victor Frankenstein
100
To find the magnetic north
What is Walton's reason for going to the Arctic?
100
The old-fashioned word for horror.
What is Gothic?
100
The century during which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
What is the 1800s or the 19th Century?
100
Prometheus stole this from the gods and gave it to humankind.
What is fire?
200
Leads Victor on a journey to the North Pole
Who is the Creature?
200
Chemistry
What is Victor's favorite subject at school?
200
A story within a story.
What is a frame tale?
200
The age of Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein.
What is 18?
200
The meaning of Prometheus's name.
What is forethought?
300
Mother died in childbirth and father disappeared
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
300
In a hovel attached to the De Lacey's cottage.
What is the place where the Creature makes his home and is educated?
300
The literary genre created by Mary Shelley.
What is science fiction?
300
The idea of reanimating the dead using electricity.
What is Galvanism?
300
The meaning of Epimetheus's name.
What is afterthought?
400
Falsely confesses to killing William Frankenstein
Who is Justine Moritz?
400
Began as an attempted kidnapping because the Creature thought that a child would not be prejudiced against the way he looked.
What is the murder of William Frankenstein?
400
The fact that no one will befriend the Creature because of the way that he looks despite the fact that he has the qualities that would make him a perfect friend.
What is irony.
400
The Enlightenment and the Romantic Periods.
What are the two periods during which Frankenstein was written?
400
Prometheus's punishment for going against Zeus.
What is being chained to mountains and having his liver eaten by an eagle each day?
500
Strangled by the Creature and left on an Irish beach
Who is Henry Clerval?
500
Victor is out in a boat doing this when Henry is killed by the Creature.
What is getting rid of the female creature?
500
A story told through letters.
What is Epistolary?
500
The places where scientists would have obtained dead bodies in Mary Shelley's time.
What are prisons?
500
The one gift that Epimetheus had left to give to humankind after he made the animals.
What is walking upright?