Quiz Questions

1. How is the creature treated by the villagers?
2. Who are Felix and Agatha?
3. What reason does the creature discover for the cottagers’ sadness?
4. How does the creature help the cottagers?
5. What does the creature want to do before revealing himself to the cottagers?
6. How does the creature imagine the cottagers will react to him?
7. What does Felix call Safie?
8. How does Safie’s arrival affect the cottagers?
9. What book does Felix read to Safie?
10. What does the creature privately love to call the cottagers?

Quiz Answers

1. The villagers chase the creature away by throwing stones and other “missile weapons” at him.
2. Felix and Agatha are a brother and sister who live with their father in the cottage attached to the hovel where the creature is hiding.
3. The creature discovers that the cottagers are suffering from poverty and hunger.
4. The creature helps the cottagers by gathering firewood for them and clearing snow from their path.
5. The creature wants to master the cottagers’ language before revealing himself to them.
6. The creature imagines the cottagers will at first be horrified by his appearance but will come to love him for his kindness.
7. Felix calls Safie his “sweet Arabian.”
8. Safie’s arrival dispels the cottagers’ sadness and fills them with joy.
9. Felix reads to Safie from Volney’s Ruins of Empires.
10. The creature privately loves to call the cottagers his “protectors.”