Q 01/05

What is the novel's subtitle?

A) The Modern Prometheus

B) A Gothic Tale

C) The New Adam

D) The Spark of Life

Answer · why

A) The Modern Prometheus

Prometheus stole fire from the gods; the label 'modern Prometheus' had been applied by Kant to Benjamin Franklin for his electricity experiments.

Q 02/05

In what year was Frankenstein first published?

A) 1848

B) 1808

C) 1818

D) 1838

Answer · why

C) 1818

The first edition came out anonymously on New Year's Day in London.

Q 03/05

How old was the author when the novel was published?

A) 24

B) 30

C) 18

D) 20

Answer · why

D) 20

She was 18 when she started it, in the summer of 1816.

Q 04/05

In which English city was the author lodging when she wrote much of the book?

A) Geneva

B) London

C) Edinburgh

D) Bath

Answer · why

D) Bath

She attended lectures on medical electricity by Dr Charles Wilkinson, whose laboratory was around the corner from her lodgings.

Q 05/05

Who suggested that the group at Villa Diodati each write a ghost story?

A) Percy Shelley

B) John Polidori

C) Lord Byron

D) Claire Clairmont

Answer · why

C) Lord Byron

Byron's own fragment about a vampire was later worked up into a novella by his doctor, John Polidori.