Frankenstein (Townsend Press)
Townsend Press Version
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1. Who was Alphonse Frankenstein?
2. How is Victor described?
3. Who is Victor's adopted sister?
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4. How does Victor feel about Elizabeth?
5. Who is Victor's best friend?
6. How does Victor's mother die? What does she ask Victor and Elizabeth to do?
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7. Where does Victor go to college?
8. Why can't Henry go to college?
9. What was the only thought that lifted Victor's spirits?
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10. Who was Franz Waldman?
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11. What did Victor feel he must study in order to learn the causes of life?
12. What did Victor discover how to create?
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13. How tall is the human that Victor decides to create?
14. Why does Victor stop writing to his family?
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15. What color is the creature's skin?
16. How does Victor feel when he looks at his creation?
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17. Describe the nightmare that Victor has about Elizabeth.
18. What does Victor do when the creature smiles and tries to touch him?
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19. Who does Victor run into while walking through town?
20. What does Henry's presence bring back thoughts of for Victor?
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21. What does Henry say about Victor's appearance?
22. Who finally allowed Henry to attend college?
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23. What causes Victor to faint?
24. How long is Victor bedridden? Who takes care of him?
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25. What does Henry ask Victor to do now that he is healthy?
26. Who does Henry give Victor a letter from?
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27. Who does Victor find out has been murdered?
28. Where does Victor decide to visit?
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29. Who was responsible for murdering William? What does he do when Victor spots him?
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30. Why does Victor decide not to tell his father about the monster?
31. Why does Victor believe the creature cannot be captured?
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32. What does Victor look at that causes him to weep?
33. Why does Victor feel so bad about the grief Elizabeth and his father are experiencing?
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34. What became Victor's only comfort?
35. What does Victor's father tell him that "excessive sorrow" prevents?
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36. Where does Alphonse decide to move the family?
37. What would Victor often do after his father and Elizabeth would go to bed?
38. What was Victor often tempted to do while out on the lake?
39. What did Victor live in daily fear of?
40. Why did Victor want to see the creature again?
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41. What does Victor fear the creature will do to Elizabeth?
42. What does Victor compare his feelings to? What literary term is this an example of? Why?
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43. Who does Victor encounter once again?
44. Why does the creature tell Victor he has no right to hate him?
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45. What does the creature say he will do if Victor does not meet his conditions?
46. What does the creature ask for from Victor? How does Victor respond?
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47. What does the creature say about how human have treated him?
48. Why does the creature say Victor is being a hypocrite?
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49. Where does the creature ask Victor to go with him? For what purpose?
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50. What does the creature say would happen when he tried to talk?
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51. How do the villagers react to the creature when he tries to enter the village?
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52. How does the creature describe the family in the cottage next to where he sleeps?
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53. What does the creature learn to do while watching the family in the cottage?
54. What does the creature hope will happen if he can learn human language?
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55. What feelings did the creature experience after seeing how "hideous" its reflection was?
56. What does the creature say he sometimes wished he didn't have?
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57. What did the creature say he has no memory of?
58. Who did the creature hope would show compassion for him?
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59. Why did the creature wait for the old man to be alone before entering the cottage?
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60. What happens when Felix and Agatha enter and see the creature?
61. What did the people in the cottage eventually end up doing?
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62. Who does the creature want revenge on?
63. How does the creature save the little girl? What happens when the man spots him?
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64. What happens when the creature tries to hug the young boy? Who does the boy say he is related to?
65. Explain how the creature accidentally kills William Frankenstein.
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66. How does the creature feel looking down at his victim?
67. What does the creature demand Victor make for him?
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68. Where does the creature say he will go if Victor creates a wife for him?
69. How does the creature feel about eating animals?
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70. What promise does Victor start to ignore?
71. Who does Victor decide he wants to marry?
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72. What does Victor realize he must do before he can marry Elizabeth?
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73. Who travels to Scotland with Victor?
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74. What does Victor begin to wonder about the creature he is about to create?
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75. What does Victor worry the creature will produce with a female companion?
76. What does Victor do when he spots the creature staring at him outside his window?
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77. Who does the creature vow to have revenge on?
78. When does the creature tell Victor he will see him again?
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79. Who does Victor find out the creature killed?
80. What prevents Victor from killing himself?
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81. What did Victor start carrying with him?
82. Where do Victor and Elizabeth go after their wedding?
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83. Who does Victor find laying dead?
84. Who dies from grief after hearing about Elizabeth?
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85. What does the creature tell Victor?
86. Why does the creature continue to leave clues about his whereabouts?
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87. Where does the creature tell Victor to follow him to?
88. In what direction is the creature's path leading to?
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89. What happens to one of Victor's sled dogs?
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90. What is Victor eventually left drifting on?
91. What is Victor taken aboard on?
92. What does Victor realize he should have done? What does he feel he was correct in not doing?
93. What does the creature do after finding Victor's dead body?
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94. How does the creature say he felt after murdering Henry Clerval?
95. What does the creature decide to do with himself?
96. How does the story end? Would this be an example of an inconclusive ending? Why or why not? Explain.