Gothic Literature & Frankenstein (--Chapter 2)

Question 1

What was odd about the man the crew was trying to rescue from the frozen sea?

Accepted Answer

He wouldn't come on board without knowing their destination

Question 2

Which is NOT true regarding the marriage of Caroline Beaufort and Alfonse Frankenstein?

Accepted Answer

Alphonse "rescued" Caroline from poverty, Caroline married him after her father died

Question 3

What are Henry's personality traits?

Accepted Answer

loved danger, heroic and romantic stories, writing, acting

Question 4

In what is Elizabeth particularly interested?

Accepted Answer

magnificent appearances of things, sublime changes of seasons; life & turbulence of summers

Question 5

T/F: In Gothic Literature, castles may be ruined or not, but they are always haunted

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Who is Cornelius Agrippa?

Accepted Answer

The author of a book of science that Victor found

Question 7

What elements in the Letters reveal the Gothic nature of the novel?

Accepted Answer

The ship, locked in ice, The mysterious stranger, The fog that hides the details of the day.

Question 8

What is Robert Walton's sister's name? (Did you catch it?)

Accepted Answer

Margaret

Question 9

Which of the following is not usually characteristic of the places in Gothic Literature?

Accepted Answer

Sunlit

Question 10

What did Victor's experience reading Agrippa inspire?

Accepted Answer

His pursuit of knowledge about the workings of nature

Question 11

Which is unlikely to be present in a Gothic story?

Accepted Answer

Just normal stuff

Question 12

Why is this novel a frame tale?

Accepted Answer

The main story is told from one character to another.

Question 13

Robert Walton hires a ship to take him near the North Pole. What's he looking for?

Accepted Answer

A passage to the other side of the world, The source of magnetism

Question 14

Two of these are characteristics of Gothic Literature. Pick one.

Accepted Answer

Curses and Omens, Supernatural Forces

Question 15

To what does Robert Walton compare the story of the Stranger's life?

Accepted Answer

A wrecked shp

Question 16

Which of the following settings is not usually in a Gothic novel?

Accepted Answer

Pleasant Meadows

Question 17

What is significant about the ship getting locked in the ice on July 31? (real photo: 1901)

Accepted Answer

As the heart of summer, it's unexpected., It goes against what we normally expect of nature in summer., Summer reminds us of heat, which recalls the Mariner's ship

Question 18

What field of study did Victor change to learning about?

Accepted Answer

electricity and "galvanism"

Question 19

Which personality/character trait IS NOT evident in BOTH the Stranger and Robert Walton?

Accepted Answer

Regret

Question 20

What does Walton himself say that he suffers from in a letter to his sister?

Accepted Answer

Loneliness

Question 21

Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?

Accepted Answer

The adopted daughter of the Frankensteins., A girl, raised by a poor family after her mother's death

Question 22

Who is Henry Clerval?

Accepted Answer

Victor's friend, a son of a Geneva merchant

Question 23

Of what does the Stranger warn Robert Walton?

Accepted Answer

Don't get too obsessed with the glory of discovery

Question 24

What did he see while watching the oak tree?

Accepted Answer

He saw it utterly destroyed by lightning

Question 25

Why does Victor call Elizabeth "my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only"

Accepted Answer

It reveals the depth and strength of his love for Elizabeth., An early sign that VF has different ideas about human beings

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