Questions (Chapter 1-3)

1) What is the man's background? Where is he from?
2) What is the story of the man's mother, Caroline Beaufort? How does the man feel toward his parents and what responsiblities does he feel they had toward him?
3) Who is Elizabeth Lavenza and what is her story? What gift does the man's mother give him? Do we know the man's name yet? Do we know his family name?
4) Who is Henry Clerval and what is he relation to Victor?
5) How does Victor characterize the interests and characters of Clerval, Elizabeth and himself?
6) Who is Cornellius Agrippa and how does Victor find out about him? How does Victor's father respond and how does Victor comment on that response?
7) What sort of science ("Natural Philosophy") is Victor learning from Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus? How would the moderns scientists respond to this sort of thinking?
8) What happens when Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lighting and hears an explanation? What does Victor then begins to study?
9) Who (or what) does he credit for this change in direction? Who (or what) does he blame for his "utter and terrible destruction"?
10) What happens to Elizabeth and to Victor's mother as a result of Elizabeth's scarlet fever? How does this compare with the mother's early history?
11) Why does Victor's father send him to the university of Ingolstadt and how old is Victor then?



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