Frankenstein Rocketbook Questions

Day 1

Introduction

1. How old was Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein?

2. What was Frankenstein a response to?

Summary – Letters #1

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. What is event seven?

8. What is event eight?

9. What is framing?

10. What feeling does it create in readers?

11. What does Robert confide in Victor?

12. What does Robert’s respect for Victor’s intelligence represent?

13. What does the sea symbolize?

14. What do Robert and Victor both desire to do?

15. Pop Quiz #1

16. Pop Quiz #2

17. Pop Quiz #3 

Day 2

Summary – Chapter 1

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. How are Victor Frankenstein’s parents described?

7. What does Victor’s privileged background serve as a means of comparison for?

8. In certain versions of Greek mythology, who is Prometheus?

9. What do Victor’s mother and adopted sister have in common?

10. What does chapter one set the tone for the depiction of?

11. How do the women in Frankenstein tend to behave?

12. Pop Quiz #1

13. Pop Quiz #2

14. Pop Quiz #3

Summary – Chapter 2

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. How does Victor describe the character of his best friend, Henry Clarvel?

5. What does Victor’s temperament clearly contrast with?

6. What did the Romantics have a simultaneous fascination with and distrust of?

7. What is a recurring theme in literature, including the story of Prometheus?

8. What does Prometheus use his intelligence and cleverness for?

9. What modern day topics does the theme of excess apply to?

10. What do humans have a responsibility to use intelligence for?

11. Pop Quiz #1

12. Pop Quiz #2

13. Pop Quiz #3

Day 3

Summary - Chapter 3

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What influence is seen in Victor's reference to the "evil influence, Angel of Destruction" ?

5. What does Victor believe destiny has mapped for him?

6. What is Victor's friend, Henry Clerval, unable to attend?

7. What does Victor become obsessive about?

8. What does Henry's inability to attend University demonstrate?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 4

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does Victor warn Robert Walton to do?

5. What genre would Frankenstein be classified as?

6. What does Victor explore?

7. What is seen through Victor's imagination?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 5

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. Victor cannot be blamed for what?

6. What has Victor failed to deal with?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Day 4

Summary - Chapter 6

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What do we learn about Justine from Elizabeth's letter?

5. How did Justine's family treat her?

6. What is Justine another example of?

7. What do the people around Justine decide for her?

8. What does Justine's character reveal?

9. What can economics prevent the poor from receiving?

10. Whose crime is Justine condemned for?

11. Pop Quiz #1

12. Pop Quiz #2

13. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 7

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. Who is accused of murdering Victor's brother, William?

6. What do the landscape and weather often reflect?

7. What do nights, clouds, and storms serve as?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 8

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. Who is tried for a murder she did not commit?

4. What group of people can be more easily accused and condemned?

5. What does Mary Shelley illustrate the hypocrisy of?

6. What prevents Justine from receiving a fair trial?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Day 5

Summary - Chapter 9

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is Victor's deep melancholy a common characteristic of?

4. Which John Keats poem is an excellent example of Romantic literature?

5. Why couldn't the lower classes indulge in melancholia?

6. What can Victor's melancholia be seen as?

7. What theme is apparent in this section of the story?

8. What does nature help Victor deal with?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 10

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. Where do Victor and the monster see one another?

4. Although the monster somewhat resembles Adam from the Book of Genesis, how are his other characteristics described?

5. What did Romantic writers such as Mary Shelley and Lord Byron use in their works?

6. What can the monster be seen as a projection of?

7. What does the monster ask for?

8. Describe how the balance of opposites works in this section?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 11

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. How is the monster described?

4. How has the point of view shifted?

5. The monster is not necessarily what?

6. What do we begin to question?

7. What did the Romantics believe caused individuals to become corrupt?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Day 6

Summary - Chapter 12

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What does the monster begin to learn and experience?

4. What separates and isolates the monster from others?

5. What can the monster not control?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 13

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What does Safie's character serve as?

4. What do the monster and Safie have in common?

5. What quality do Safie and the monster share?

6. What do Safie and the monster represent?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Day 7

Summary - Chapter 14

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. What is event seven?

8. How is Muhammadan described?

9. How is Felix described?

10. What does the novel condemn?

11. Pop Quiz #1

12. Pop Quiz #2

13. Pop Quiz

Summary - Chapter 15

1. What is event one? What are some of the books that the monster finds?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. Who does the monster compare his resemblance to?

6. Who may have identified with the emotions of the monster?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Day 8

Summary - Chapter 16

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. What increases as the monster continues to be abused?

8. Why did the monster kill William?

9. What point does Shelley make about individuals when they are born?

10. What is the definition of a "Deus ex machine"?

11. Pop Quiz #1

12. Pop Quiz #2

13. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 17

1. What is event one?

2. What is "metanarrative"?

3. What does a female monster serve as a parallel to?

4. Pop Quiz #1

5. Pop Quiz #2

6. Pop Quiz #3

Day 9

Summary - Chapter 18

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What theme does Shelley further develop in this chapter by showing Victor on the lake?

6. Whose journal is the opposite of Victor's

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Summary- Chapter 19

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What do we again see the relationship of landscape and nature to?

4. What does Oxford serve as a physical example of?

5. What theme is expressed in this chapter?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Day 10

Summary - Chapter 20

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What has happened to Victor's moral conscience?

7. What does the destruction of the second creature represent a fear of?

8. In Genesis, what does the female figure introduce into the world? What happens to the female figure in Frankenstein?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 21

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What do the four different trials in the story show about the legal system of the day?

6. What was the story of Frankenstein offering on the justice system of its day?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Day 11

Summary - Chapter 22

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What part of nature can be viewed as an omen of good or ill?

6. What do Robert and Victor both desire to tame and control?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Chapter 23

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is the first theme present in this chapter?

6. What is the second theme present in this chapter?

7. What is Laudanum? What does it cause?

8. What does the character of the magistrate raise?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Day 12

Summary - Chapter 24

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. Which theme is introduced into this chapter?

5. What does nature reflect?

6. Which two characters have performed a role reversal?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Summary - Final Letters

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. What is event seven?

8. What is event eight?

9. What is event nine?

10. What does the ice preventing the ship from returning to civilization reflect?

11. Who is Robert becoming more like?

12. What is Robert reluctant to do?

13. Pop Quiz #1

14. Pop Quiz #2

15. Pop Quiz #3