Frankenstein Chapter 4

What does Victor mean when he says his work became "so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory"?

• It means that he liked looking at the stars while he worked.

• It means that he worked all through the night until morning.

• It means that it was too cloudy to work.

• It means that he left his laboratory only at night.

In this chapter, Victor discovers that he is "capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter," which means:

• He can animate drawings he makes.

• He enjoys watching bodies decay.

• He cannot bring dead things back to life.

• He can bring dead things back to life.

Once Victor realizes he has the ability to bring dead things back to life, he begins doing what?

• gathering bones and body parts

• trying to bring dead plants to life first

• tell people of his discovery

• write down all of his knowledge

Victor begins isolating himself to pursue his work

• true

• false

As a result of all the work he is doing, and the overwhelming feelings and stress he develops, Victor

• gets married

• becomes happy as ever

• becomes more involved in the community

• becomes sick

Who is Victor Frankenstein?

• a scientist

• a monster

• Dr. Nemur's friend

• Charlie's ghost

To “Bestow animation upon lifeless matter” means to

• draw pictures

• tie a bow on an animated picture

• create life from something

  that is dead

• create a movie from a cartoon

When Victor said, " A new species would bless me as its creator and source", he meant that

• man would ask him for fire

• he is creating a new species that he believes would worship him almost as a god.

• a new creature would bless him with gifts

• he was making a monster to scare people

What is the mystery that Dr. Frankenstein mentions?

• the mystery of creating life

• unsolved mysteries

• the monster of Frankenstein

• the mystery of death

What does it mean to study the human frame?

• to study skeletons to better understand how the human body is put together.

• to put a body in a picture frame

• to look at a picture of a body

• to bring humans back to life