Frankenstein Test

How much time passed since Victor made the creature to the time described in chapter 20?

3 years.

What best describes the change in the creature's attitude about the violence and destruction he caused?

He became numb to the act of murder.

Why does Victor lose consciousness in Chapter 21?

He cannot handle seeing Henry's dead body.

The creature announces that he has what designation in his relationship with Victor?

He is Victor's master.

What has Elizabeth believed was the reason for Victor's odd behavior over the past years?

He loved someone else.

What does the creature promise Victor?

He will be with Victor on his wedding night.

What does the creature ultimately plan to do?

Set himself on fire at the North Pole.

What has Victor been doing to help him fall asleep?

Taking a drug.

Dangerously likely to fall or collapse; dependent on chance.

precarious

Filled or well-supplied with something.

replete

A survey or review of a past course of events or period of time.

retrospect

Speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.

scoff

An uncertain belief

supposition

To where does Victor decide to travel?

Great Britain.

What best describes Victor's emotional state on his wedding night?

Anxious.

What has Victor been doing for months, as is described in the last chapter of the novel?

Chasing the creature across Europe.

What emotions does Victor feel when he hears the creature express his wishes?

Compassion.

What does Victor discover on his bed?

Elizabeth's body.

What does the creature say he will do if Victor makes him a female companion?

Move to South America.

When Victor's father tells Victor that "you have resumed your former pleasures and seem to be returning to yourself," what does he suggest that Victor do soon?

Propose marriage to Elizabeth.

What is not a concern that Victor has about his project?

They might be immortal.

What does the creature say would be the only reasons that Victor would have for denying him his wish of a female companion?

Victor's enjoyment of power and cruelty.

Regard with disgust and hatred.

abhor

Accept something reluctantly but without protest.

acquiesce

Horrifyingly wicked.

atrocious

Having been made greater in size or valuable.

augmented

An attitude of patronizing superiority; disdain.

condescension

Disappear or cause to disappear; squander or fritter away.

dissipate

Courage in pain or adversity

fortitude