At what age did Mary Shelley start writing the novel Frankenstein ?

Related Mcqs:

1. In which edition of the novel Frankenstein the name of the author Mary Shelley first appeared ?

   A. 2nd Edition
   B. 1st Edition
   C. 4th Edition
   D. 3rd Edition

2. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?

   A. Captain Cooper
   B. Victor Frankenstein
   C. Captain Robert Walton
   D. Sergent Thomas Vincent

3. Victor Frankenstein’s project to create life in Mary Shelley’s novel can be linked to romanticism through which of the following ?

   A. His Promethean striving to exceed human limitations as explored by Byron and Percy Shelley
   B. Its suggestion that the natural order has laws beyond human control
   C. His desire to create a political revolution
   D. Both A and B

4. In which year Mary Shelley visited the famous Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before her visit an alchemist was engaged in experiments ?

   A. 1816
   B. 1814
   C. 1808
   D. 1812

5. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?

   A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination
   B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
   C. The poet as special interpreter of the world
   D. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world

6. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

   A. Fanny Burney
   B. Mary Wollstonecraft
   C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
   D. Jane Austen

7. In “Frankenstein” how does Shelley represent science ?

   A. As potentially productive when used correctly
   B. As something needed for humans to advance
   C. As a way to resolve human madness
   D. As inherently monstrous

8. Who should NOT be viewed as Prometheus in Shelley’s “Frankenstein” ?

   A. Frankenstein’s monster
   B. Mary Shelley
   C. Robert Walton
   D. Frankenstein

9. When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?

   A. People are foolishly superstitious.
   B. A world devoid of supernatural phenomena is a better world.
   C. A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagination.
   D. The personification of nature is regressive.

10. Paul O’Brien’s essay on Shelley suggests that Shelley was______________?

    A. Not an atheist
    B. In love with Lord Byron
    C. Suicidal
    D. Fiercely anti-war