10 questions🇬🇧English
🧟 Frankenstein – A-level
English Literature · A-level — practise narrative structure, characters, Gothic features, key quotations and themes.
Make it your own private quiz and change anything you like
Questions
In the outer frame of Frankenstein, Robert Walton's letters are addressed to whom?
His friend, Henry Clerval
His sister, Margaret Saville
His father, Alphonse Walton
His fiancée, Elizabeth Lavenza
20s
Complete Victor's description of the creation scene: 'It was on a dreary night of…'
January
November
December
October
20s
The subtitle 'The Modern Prometheus' alludes to a Titan best known for which act?
Opening a forbidden jar of evils
Stealing fire from the gods for humankind
Looking back at Eurydice in the underworld
Flying too close to the sun on wax wings
20s
What piece of evidence leads to Justine Moritz being convicted of William's murder?
A witness who saw her strangle the boy
A letter in which she threatens William
A bloodstained knife hidden in her room
A miniature portrait of Caroline found on her
30s
The Creature learns language chiefly by overhearing lessons given to which character?
Agatha, taught by her father
Justine, taught by Caroline
William, taught by Elizabeth
Safie, taught by Felix
30s
Which book leads the Creature to compare himself with both Adam and Satan?
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Paradise Lost
Plutarch's Lives
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
30s
'I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.' Who says this, and to whom?
The Creature, to De Lacey
Victor, to Walton
The Creature, to Victor
Walton, to his sister
30s
Which sequence gives the deaths in the order they occur in the novel?
Clerval, William, Justine, Elizabeth
Justine, William, Elizabeth, Clerval
William, Clerval, Justine, Elizabeth
William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth
30s
What directly provokes the Creature to murder Henry Clerval?
Victor refusing to meet him on the glacier
Being shot after saving a drowning girl
The De Lacey family driving him away
Victor destroying the unfinished female creature
30s
Victor's journey through Chamounix to the Mer de Glace, where awe-inspiring scenery eases his grief, best illustrates which Romantic idea?
The sublime
The pastoral idyll
The mock-heroic
The picturesque
30s