Chapter 13
1. How did Felix receive the lady who rode up to their cottage?
2. Why did she have a difficult time communicating with the cottagers?
3. What did the creature and the lady do simultaneously?
4. Why was Volney’s Ruins of Empires significant for the creature?
5. What did the creature discover entitled a man to respect, and how did this affect him?

6. What did his understanding of a human child’s upbringing cause for the creature?

Chapter14
1. What had been the situation of the De Lacey’s in France, and who had been the cause of their downfall?

2. What happened to Safie’s father that caused Felix to become involved in his life?
3. What treasure of the Turk’s did Felix desire to have?
4. Who had been Safie’s mother and how did this influence Safie?
5. How did the Turk really feel about his daughter’ marrying Felix, and why did he allow Felix understand that Safie would be his?

6. How did the French government punish Felix and his family for helping the turk?
7. How did Safie come to discover her father’s betrayal of Felix and herself?


Chapter 15
1. What were the qualities of humans to which the creature adhered at this time?
2. How did the creature’s reading of the Sorrows of Werter influence the him?
3. What was the despairing truth to which he came as he thought about the circumstances of the characters in these works?

4. What was the effect of Plutarch’s Lives and Paradise Lost on him?
5. What else had the creature found that caused him great sorrow?
6. How did the creature’s state differ from that of Adam and even from the deamons of hell?

7. Why did the creature delay his revealing himself to the cottagers?
8. How did the creature introduce himself to the people and what was the result?