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 ?

Related Mcqs:

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

   A. 26
   B. 18
   C. 31
   D. 24

2. 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

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. The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. “Faith, sir,” replied the story-teller, “as to that matter, I don’t believe one half of it myself.” This passage exemplifies_____________?

   A. Narrative frame
   B. Hortatory sermon
   C. Snaring
   D. Jamming

8. Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley’s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,” argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus- Tyrannus” is important because a_______________?

   A. Shelley himself dismissed the poem
   B. The poem was incomplete
   C. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual transgression in it
   D. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality in it

9. Who was the sister of Mary I ?

   A. Isabella
   B. Victoria
   C. Anne
   D. Elizabeth I

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

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