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Frankenstein (1831 text): chapter checks

25 checks, 150 questions, answer key with the line of the text behind each answer, and a rubric for each written answer.

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Checks

1. Letters 1–4
2. Chapter 1
3. Chapter 2
4. Chapter 3
5. Chapter 4
6. Chapter 5
7. Chapter 6
8. Chapter 7
9. Chapter 8
10. Chapter 9
11. Chapter 10
12. Chapter 11
13. Chapter 12
14. Chapter 13
15. Chapter 14
16. Chapter 15
17. Chapter 16
18. Chapter 17
19. Chapter 18
20. Chapter 19
21. Chapter 20
22. Chapter 21
23. Chapter 22
24. Chapter 23
25. Chapter 24

Two questions from Letters 1–4

1. According to Walton's first letter, what kept him from going to sea as a boy?

1. A His sister Margaret's fear that he would drown on a voyage
2. B His father's dying wish, which forbade his uncle to let him go
3. C His uncle Thomas's own refusal to let him leave school
4. D A weak constitution that left him unfit for hard labor

Answer key

B. B: the father's dying injunction bound the uncle; uncle Thomas only supplied the books of voyages, so C reverses who forbade it.

2. When Walton says he would sacrifice everything to his enterprise, the stranger cries, "Do you share my madness? Have you drank also of the intoxicating draught?" What does the image of the draught suggest?

1. A Walton has been drinking with the crew to keep up his spirits
2. B Walton's thirst for discovery is a dangerous craving the stranger once gave in to
3. C The stranger blames the brandy the sailors forced him to swallow
4. D The stranger envies Walton's hope and wishes to share it

Answer key

B. B: the 'draught' is Walton's ambition, which the stranger calls a shared 'madness' and urges him to 'dash the cup' away; the brandy in C is a literal detail, not the meaning.

What you get

• Student checks (PDF, US Letter). Name, date and score lines; each check starts on a new page.
• Answer key (PDF, kept apart). The right letter, one line on why, and the line of the text that proves it. A 2-1-0 rubric for every written answer.
• Canvas and Schoology. A QTI 1.2 ZIP: one quiz per check, multiple choice graded automatically.
• Google Forms. A CSV and a short script that turns it into one self-grading quiz per check, in your own Drive.
• Any other quiz tool. The same CSV: question, options A to D, right answer, points, rubric.

Edition and public-domain status

Text used: Project Gutenberg eBook #42324 (gutenberg.org/ebooks/42324). Mary Shelley died in 1851 and the work was first published in 1818; revised text 1831: public domain in the United States, and under the stricter rule we apply for sales abroad (author dead before 1925). Questions refer to chapters, not pages.

This is the revised 1831 text, the one most school editions print. Some classes read the 1818 text, which differs in places (for example, Elizabeth is Victor's cousin in 1818 and an adopted orphan in 1831).

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