Problem 1: Who is Caroline Beaufort? What is her story?
Problem 2: Who is Elizabeth Lavenza and what is her story?
Problem 3: Who is Henry Clerval and what is his relation to Victor?
Problem 4: What natural phenomena influenced Frankenstein? Why did this have an impact on him?
Problem 5: Who is Cornelius Agrippa and how does Victor find out about him? How does Victor's father respond, and how does Victor comment on that response?
Problem 6: What sort of science ("Natural Philosophy") is Victor learning from Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus?
Problem 7: What happens to Elizabeth and to Victor's mother as a result of Elizabeth's scarlet fever?
Problem 8: Why does Victor's father send him to the University of Ingolstadt? How old is Victor then? (Ingolstadt is in southern Germany, in Bavaria, on the Danube, 43 miles north of Munich. The university founded there in 1472 moved to Landshut in 1802 and to Munich in 1826.)
Problem 9: What does Victor learn from M. Krempe? How does Victor respond to him, and on what grounds?
Problem 10: What does Victor learn from M. Waldman? How does Victor respond to him? What does M. Waldman say in describing modern chemistry that changes Victor's mind?
Problem 11: How well does Victor progress during the next two years? What does he then become interested in, and what ultimately does he discover?
Problem 12: How does he go about creating a human being, and what does he expect as a result of this creation? How long does the task take? What happens to Victor in the process?
Problem 13: Given all the mad doctor and monster movies we've seen, including perhaps versions of Frankenstein, what is unexpected about the description of the actual creation of life here? How much do we learn of the actual procedure?
Problem 14: How does Victor respond to the actual creation of life?
Problem 15: What does the creature do? How does Victor respond?
Problem 16: Who is Justine Moritz and what is her story? What comments does Elizabeth make about her position in Swiss society? What religion is Justine?
Problem 17: Who is William and how old is he? Have we heard of him before?
Problem 18: What does Victor now believe happened to William? What does Victor assume about the nature of the creature?
Problem 19: Who has been identified as the murderer, and on what evidence? How does Victor respond to this news? Why doesn't he say anything about the real murderer?
Problem 20: What happens at Justine's trial? How does Victor respond?
Problem 21: The next day, why does Justine say she has confessed to the murder of William? How does Victor respond to Justine's situation and to Elizabeth's anguish?