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Who arrives at the De Lacey home in the springtime, and what is her background? How does the creature benefit from her language barrier? What impression about mankind does the creature gain after hearing the history lessons in this book? What does the creature learn about family and parental relationships? How does that make him feel about himself? 5. 4. What does the creature realize about himself when he begins to compare how humans gain power and respect to how he achieves those things? How does his new self-awareness make him feel? 3. 2. What sort of book does Felix use to teach Safie? 1. Chapter 13 LITERATURE STUDY QUESTIONS STUDENT NAME Page 1 of 15

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Who arrives at the De Lacey home in the springtime, and what is her background? How does the creature benefit from her language barrier?

What impression about mankind does the creature gain after hearing the history lessons in this book?

What does the creature learn about family and parental relationships? How does that make him feel about himself?

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4. What does the creature realize about himself when he begins to compare how humans gain power and respect to how he achieves those things? How does his new self-awareness make him feel?

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2. What sort of book does Felix use to teach Safie?

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What did Felix do in Paris that resulted in his family being exiled from France and forced to live in this cottage in Germany?

7. How did Safie manage to avoid the fate of having to return to Arabia with her dastardly father, and instead make her way to the De Lacey cottage?

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After reading the books that he finds in a satchel in the forest, what comparison/contrast does the creature make between himself and Adam from the Bible?

What is going on in Victor's life during this part of the creature's life? (Peek back at Chapter 6 if necessary.)

11. How does the creature plan to gain his first entry into the cottage and acceptance from Felix, Agatha, and Safie? How does his plan go wrong?

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9. What other reading material does the creature suddenly find in his coat pocket? Now that he can read, what does he learn about Victor from this material?

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What do the De Laceys decide to do with their cottage after the awful scene at the end of Chapter 15? With what feelings does the creature react to this decision, and what does he do to the cottage as a result?

Who is the boy that wanders near while the creature was resting in the forest? What does the creature plan to do with him before he learns the boy's identity?

What demand does the creature make at the end of Chapter 16, and why?16.

15. Who is the woman the creature finds asleep in a barn? What “mischief” does he decide to do while holding the portrait and watching her sleep?

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13. What takes place as the creature travels through the forest on his search for Victor that makes him “vow eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind”?

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How does Victor react to the demand? What consequence does he expect to get for his reaction?

Why does Victor find it hard to believe this promise?

How does Victor look to others, feel about himself, and behave toward his family when he arrives home in Geneva this time?

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20. What decision does Victor finally announce to the creature about his demand? What is the creature planning to do while Victor carries out his decision?

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18. What promise does the creature make if Victor will agree to his demand?

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How does Victor feel when his father offers the idea that perhaps an immediate marriage to Elizabeth might cure Victor's remaining melancholy? Why does Victor feel the way he does about it?

When Victor interrupts his own story and says the line near the end of Chapter 18 that begins with, “Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute…” what outcome for Henry do you think he is referring to (that has not yet happened)?

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23. Why does Victor want to travel to England now for the next few months instead of staying in Geneva? Who did Victor's father arrange should travel with Victor? Who else is probably going to “accompany” him?

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Describe how Henry and Victor's attitudes about their six months in London are different. What is each of them hoping to gain from this journey?

Describe the place where Victor goes when he leaves Henry behind at their Scottish friend's house and travels to the farthest northern part of Scotland he can reach. What is it like there, and why do you think he chose this location for his work?

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What thoughts make Victor change his mind just before he was about to complete the female? Who is watching through the window as he destroys the female?

What does Victor believe is the real meaning of the creature's promise?

What country does Victor land in after he falls asleep in his boat and drifts for so long? Why do the villagers there speak so rudely and suspiciously to him?

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30. What is in the basket that Victor hauls out to sea in the middle of the night in a boat?

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28. Describe Victor's explanation when the creature enters the hut to confront him about destroying the female. What promise does the creature make as the last thing he says to Victor before he rushes out of Victor's hut?

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What is Victor's physical reaction when he hears one of the villagers giving testimony about what he had found while coming home from a fishing trip? What did the witnesses and Mr. Kirwin, the magistrate, think as a result of Victor's reaction?

What is the outcome of Victor's criminal trial? What evidence is given to prove this?

35. What is the “one duty” on Victor's mind as he and his father sail away from Ireland on their way home to Geneva?

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33. What has Mr. Kirwin found out about Victor while he lay unconscious in a fever for two months? Who has Mr. Kirwin summoned to come from Geneva?

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When Victor becomes too ill to travel and has to stop in Paris for a few weeks of rest on the way home to Geneva, he often refers to himself as the “murderer” of Justine, William, and Henry. Why does his father not believe him and direct him not to say such things?

After Victor and his father arrive home and a date is set for the wedding, what precautions does Victor take as he prepares for it? What does he pack? Where will he and Elizabeth go for their honeymoon?

39. In the boat leaving Geneva after the wedding, what sort of mood does Elizabeth try to present for Victor's sake? What sort of mood does he nonetheless notice she seems to feel?

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37. What does Elizabeth want to know in her letter to Victor? What does she say is the only way their marriage can truly make her happy instead of “eternally miserable”? What is Victor's answer to her inquiry? What does he promise he will do the day after their wedding?

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Why does Victor send Elizabeth to bed earlier than himself in the town of Evian on their wedding night?

What does Victor see outside the window as the other people of the inn are gathering in his bedroom to find out what is wrong?

43. When Victor rushes home to Geneva in a panic that his father may be in danger, what news must he deliver? What does this news cause to happen to his father? What then happens to Victor for the next several months when he “loses sensation”?

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41. Was Victor's understanding of the creature's final promise to him in the hut in Scotland correct? What had he believed the creature planned to do on this night? What did the creature do on this night?

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What reaction does the magistrate in Geneva give Victor when Victor tries to tell him about the creature and demand legal aid in hunting and punishing him?

45. Why is it ironic that Victor says to the magistrate, "Man, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say"?

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How does Victor gain the trust and aid he needs from villagers in all the various countries through which he chases the creature?

In what ways does the creature continue to emotionally torment Victor whenever he senses that Victor might have lost his trail or might begin to give up?

50. What sort of surroundings are there when Victor tries to catch up to the creature by dogsled? How do Victor and his team of dogs become trapped on a floating piece of ice? (Note -- this is also what allows the creature to disappear from him once more.)

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48. In his daytime “hateful life,” what is the one thing that Victor looks forward to each night? Why is it so important to him?

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46. What does Victor say will give him strength and preserve his life while he hunts alone for the creature?

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Why does Victor firmly refuse to explain how he made the creature?

What does Victor accuse the sailors of when they confront Walton in his cabin and demand that he turn the ship toward home if the ice ever frees them?

55. On his deathbed what does Victor say about whether or not his past actions were right or wrong?

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53. When Victor admits he has “sunk” from the grand destiny he once believed would be his, what impression of him does Walton still maintain? What does Walton want to have?

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51. What would Victor like Robert Walton to do if he ever has the chance?

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What does the creature say he felt after killing Henry Clerval? What does he say he felt after killingElizabeth? What does Walton think about the creature’s explanation?

58. What does the creature announce he will do to end the suffering of his feelings of guilt? What method will he use?

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56. What interruption occurs as Walton is writing this letter (September 12)? When Walton enters the room where Victor’s corpse lies, how is this scene similar to earlier scenes when Victor encountered his dead loved ones? Why is the creature there?

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