Our site uses cookies. Some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of the site to operate and have already been set. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work. To find out more about cookies on this website, see our Cookie Policy
Accept
© eRevision.uk and ZigZag Education 2025
This test is run by .
Note that your final mark will not be saved in the system.

Context GapFill

Target Level
4-5
Running Total
0
0%
Attempt
1 of 3

You must fill all the gaps before clicking ‘Check Answers!’

image

This quiz relates to AO1 and AO3.

As the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and the political philosopher   Lord ByronHerbert SpencerWilliam GodwinJohn Stuart Mill, and the wife of Romantic poet Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley had a politically influenced childhood and young adulthood which may be evident in the creation of Frankenstein. The character of  the monsterHenry ClervalVictor FrankensteinAlphonse Frankenstein can be seen as presenting a critique of society by means of the objections it voices about its treatment by other people on account of its appearance. Alternatively, the monster's character may reflect a fear of mob rule in society. The novel was largely completed in one of its main settings  ArchangelGenevaOxfordSwitzerland, where Mary and others shared a villa with poets Percy Shelley and   William BlakeLord ByronJohn KeatsRobert Southey, who challenged the house guests to write  an operettaa ghost storya political pamphleta poem. A discussion between Shelley and Byron about the reanimation experiments involving dead frogs that were carried out by Erasmus Darwin led Mary to use contemporary advances in the field of  mathematicszoologyseafaringscience as an inspiration for her story. This is reflected in the alternative title for the novel, The New  JanusParacelsusZeusPrometheus. The character of Victor also embodies the spirit of the period of the   Modern WorldJacobeansScientific RevolutionEnlightenment in his attempt to reshape the natural world by scientific means and his   cynicismanxietyangerscepticism about the power of  politicshuman conscienceGodfaith.

This is your 1st attempt! You get 3 marks for each one you get right. Good luck!

Pass Mark
72%