Frankenstein Chapters 6-8 and 9-12

Ch 6-8

33. What is waiting for Victor when he finally recovers? Who has nursed him during his illness?
34. Who is Justine Moritz and what is her story? What comments does Elizabeth make about her position in Swiss society ? What religion is Justine ?
35. Who is William and how old is he? Have we heard of him before?
36. What does Victor do after his recovery ? What is Clerval's "plan of life" ?
37. When does Victor finally plan to return home? What do he and Clerval do while waiting for his father's directions?
38. What is waiting for Victor when he returns to his apartment? What news does his father have for him? And what is his father's name ? How does Victor respond?
39. How long has Victor been away from home ? What happens the night he returns to Geneva ? How does he respond?
40. Whom does Victor see that night ? When was the last time they saw each other? How long ago was that ?
41. What does Victor now believe happened to William ? What does Victor assume about the nature of the creature?
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42. Who has been identified as the murderer, and on what evidence ? How does Victor respond to this news? Why doesn't he say anything about the real murderer?
43. What happens at Justine's trial? How does Victor respond?
44. The next day, why does Justine say she has confessed to the murder of William ? How does Victor respond to Justine's situation and to Elizabeth's anguish?

Ch 9-12

45. How does Victor respond in the days after Justine's death? How have Elizabeth's views changed ?
46. What journey does Victor undertake, and when ? What places does he travel through? Where does he stay?
47. Where does Victor go the next day? Where does he go the following day? P. B. Shelley mentions the glacier in a letter written an Chamouni (his spelling) on July 25, 1817:
48. How does he feel during this part of his journey? (Notice in this chapter that Frankenstein, in the late 1700s, is able to quote a poem written by P.B. Shelley in 1816.
49. Whom does Victor see? ? How does he respond ?
50. In this chapter, we finally hear the creature speak for the first time. What does he say? Is this what we expect from the creature?
51. What does the creature ask of Victor ? What does the creature say to Victor ? Does his language remind you of another literary work? How good is Victor at performing the role of creator for his creature?
52. Why has the creature caused the deaths of William and Justine? Is he as inherently evil and bloodthirsty as Victor has assumed?
53. What will cause the creature to change? Keep in mind his statement "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous".What sort of psychological understanding is Shelley showing here?
54. How good of an ironic sense of humor does the creature have? (See the "hand" bit )
55. Does Victor agree to listen to the creature's tale? What does Victor begin to feel ? Where do they go?
56. What does the creature remember of his earliest days ? How does he seem to be learning things? How well can the creature speak at this point of his existence?
57. How does the creature respond to his discovery of the fire? Why does he move?
58. What happens during his first encounters with people ? Is this more like what you expect from a horror story? But from whose point of view do we see these encounters?
59. Where does he finally find a place to stay ? What does he learn about the people who live in the cottage? How does he feel toward them?
60. How does the creature continue to learn about the family he is watching? How might a modern anthropologist or sociologist respond to the creature's methods? What is the condition of the family? How does the creature manage to help them?
61. How does the creature learn language ? Why might he have trouble learning words such as "good, dearest, unhappy" ?
62. What are the names of the family members ? Who are Agatha and Felix?
63. What things bother the creature when he thinks of discovering himself to the family ? How does he respond to his own appearance when he sees it?
64. The creature is still there when spring comes . What has been happening to Victor in the meantime? (See Chapter 5.)
65. How does the creature hope to win over the family? How does he respond to the coming of spring?

Frankenstein Chapters 1-5 Questions

Ch 1- 5
11. What is the man's background? (Do we know his name yet?) Where is he from?
12. What is the story of the man's mother, Caroline Beaufort? How does the man feel toward his parents, and what responsibilities does he feel they had toward him?
13. Who is Elizabeth Lavenza and what is her story? What gift does the man's mother give him? Do we know the man's name yet? Do we know his family name?
14. Who is Henry Clerval and what is his relation to Victor?
15. How does Victor characterize the interests and characters of Clerval, Elizabeth, and himself ?
16. Who is Cornelius Agrippa and how does Victor find out about him ? How does Victor's father respond, and how does Victor comment on that response?
17. What sort of science ("Natural Philosophy") is Victor learning from Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus? How would a modern scientist respond to this sort of thinking?
18. What happens when Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lightning and hears an explanation? What does Victor then begin to study?
19. Who or what does he credit for this change in direction ? Who or what does he blame for his "utter and terrible destruction" ?
20. What happens to Elizabeth and to Victor's mother as a result of Elizabeth's scarlet fever ? How does this compare with the mother's early history ?
21. Why does Victor's father send him to the university of Ingolstadt ? How old is Victor then? (Ingolstadt is in southern Germany, in Bavaria, on the Danube, 43 miles north of Munich. The university founded there in 1472 moved to Landshut in 1802 and to Munich in 1826.)
22. What does Victor learn from M. Krempe? How does Victor respond to him, and on what grounds? Is this a good basis for making such a decision? (
23. What does Victor learn from M. Waldman? How does Victor respond to him? How does Victor think of his older science as opposed to modern science ? What does M. Waldman say in describing modern chemistry that changes Victor's mind ? What does Victor say he will now do ?
24. How well does Victor progress during the next two years? What does he then become interested in, and what ultimately does he discover ?
25. Will he share that knowledge with Walton? Why? (Note the "present" of the telling breaking through the narration here.)
26. How does he go about creating a human being, and what does he expect as a result of this creation ? How long does the task take? What happens to Victor in the process?
27. Do you recognize the opening words of this chapter? Remember that Shelley gave them as the starting point of her story ?
28. Given all the mad doctor and monster movies we've seen, including perhaps versions of Frankenstein, what is unexpected about the description of the actual creation of life here ? How much do we learn of the actual procedure?
29. How does Victor respond to the actual creation of life ? What surprises him about the way the creature he has brought to life looks? What does that do to Victor's response ?
30. What does Victor dream ? How does the dream grow out of, comment on, even explain what Victor has done and been through?
31. What does the creature do ? How does Victor respond?
32. Whom does Victor meet arriving in a coach the next morning ? How does Victor respond? What does Victor discover when they go to Victor's apartment ? How does Victor respond? What happens to him, and for how long ? Is there any more news of the creature?

Frankenstein letter's 1-4

1. Who is writing Leter 1 (and all the letters)?
2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship?
3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his plans?

4. What does Robert Walton tell s about himself?
5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton's question "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man"?
6. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange accident" has happened to the sailors?
7. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in?
8. What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man?
9. How much time has elapsed when Walton begins writing again? What has happened in the meantime? How does the man respond to Walton's project? His is Walton responding to the man?
10. Why does the man agree to tell his story?

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Quiz 3 Hints...

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Below are of list of hints for quiz #3. We may not have time for a review, so I wanted to post this early. Hope this helps...

* A lot of vocabulary from Act III
* Understanding foreshadowing
* Interpretation of some of the monolouges/soliloquies spoken by round characters (spark notes may come quite in handy for this)
* Understanding Soliloquy
* Central issue in Act III
* Understanding Aside
* Knowing when to use the pronouns "Who" and "Whom"

Romeo and Juliet Act III

Scene One

1.How does Romeo respond to Tybalt’s insults?

2.What happens to Mercutio?

3.What happens to Tybalt?

4.What is the Prince’s response to this?

5.To where is Romeo banished?

6.What is the climax of the play?

7.When Mercutio says "a curse o’ both your houses," he is really voicing one of the central themes of the play. Why is it ironic that he says this?

8. Why does the prince question Benvolio about the fight?

9. Why does Lady Capulet believe there were 20 men fighting?


Scene Two

1.What misunderstanding does Juliet have with the nurse as the nurse tries to tell her about Tybalt and Romeo?

2.What is Juliet’s first response to hearing the news of Tybalt’s death? Her second response?

3. How has the role of day and night been changed?

4. What does the serpent represent?


Scene Three and Four

1. Why does Romeo have to ask what his sentence is?


2. What is the Friar’s plan?

3. What agreement does Paris make with Capulet?
4. Why do you think the Nurse wants to assist Romeo and Juliet?

5. Why does Friar Laurence repeat the phrase, “You are fortunate”?


Scene Five

1.What news does Lady Capulet give to Juliet?

2.What is Juliet’s response?

3.How does Lord Capulet respond?

4.What advice does the nurse give?

5.Whose advice does Juliet decide to seek?

6.Why does Juliet agree to do that which her father has asked?

7.Romeo and Juliet talk about their relationship and again use night and day images. Why do they seem to prefer darkness over light?