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

Related Mcqs:

1. Which statement best summarizes the parallel between Frankenstein and Prometheus ?

   A. Both were successful because they followed the laws of nature.
   B. Both refused to use science to do innovative work.
   C. Both worked collaboratively.
   D. Both suffered for their attempt to do divine work.

2. 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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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