Chapter 21 Quiz — Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Comprehension Quiz: Chapter 21

Who is the magistrate that presides over Victor’s case in Chapter 21?

• Daniel Nugent
• Mr. Kirwin
• Alphonse Frankenstein
• Robert Walton

How was the murder victim killed?

• Drowned in the sea
• Stabbed with a knife
• Strangled, with black marks of fingers on his neck
• Poisoned with laudanum

What does Daniel Nugent testify that implicates Victor?

• He saw Victor arguing with Clerval
• He saw a boat with a single man near the shore matching Victor’s boat
• He found Victor’s gloves near the body
• He heard Victor confess to the crime

Victor immediately recognizes the body as Henry Clerval when he enters the room.

• True
• False

What does Victor shout during his two-month fever?

• That the Creature must be destroyed
• That he is the murderer of William, Justine, and Clerval
• That he wants to return to Geneva
• That he is innocent of all charges

Why do most people in the prison not understand Victor’s feverish confessions?

• Victor speaks too quietly
• Victor speaks in his native language, which only Mr. Kirwin understands
• Victor speaks in Latin
• The prison walls are too thick

The nurse who attends Victor in prison treats him with great compassion and sympathy.

• True
• False

When Mr. Kirwin tells Victor he has a visitor, who does Victor initially fear it is?

• Elizabeth Lavenza
• The Creature (the monster)
• Henry Clerval’s father
• A judge come to sentence him

How is Victor ultimately cleared of the murder charge?

• He confesses and is pardoned
• The Creature is caught and identified as the killer
• Evidence proves he was on the Orkney Islands at the time of death
• Mr. Kirwin dismisses the case out of sympathy

What does the word "augury" mean as used in the sentence: "The magistrate drew an unfavourable augury from my manner"?

• A legal argument
• A sign or omen of what is to come
• An angry outburst
• A formal accusation

What does "torpor" mean in the passage: "my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature"?

• Intense anger and rage
• A state of physical or mental inactivity and lethargy
• Sharp physical pain
• Acute awareness of one’s surroundings

What drug does Victor begin taking nightly after his recovery?

• Morphine
• Arsenic
• Laudanum
• Absinthe

Victor and his father depart Ireland on a ship bound for Geneva directly.

• True
• False

What recurring image haunts Victor even in sunlight after his release?

• The Creature’s smile
• A "dense and frightful darkness" penetrated only by two glaring eyes
• The stormy sea around the Orkney Islands
• The face of Justine Moritz

Which earlier character’s fate does Victor’s wrongful imprisonment most directly parallel?

• William Frankenstein
• Elizabeth Lavenza
• Justine Moritz
• Robert Walton

Comprehension Quiz