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Chapter 1 Quiz
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What does Victor's early interest in the "hidden laws of nature" foreshadow?
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His future success as a medical doctor
His dangerous ambition as a scientist
His inability to understand Elizabeth's motives
His eventual rejection of science in favor of poetry
Which of the following is a shared characteristic of Victor and his friend Henry's ambitions at a young age?
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They are both motivated by a desire to help people
They are too naive to understand that their ambitions are self-serving
They have both made clear plans to achieve their goals
They are focused on competing against each other for success
How does Victor's study of natural philosophy shape his relationship with nature?
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It makes want him to conquer and control nature
It convinces him that humans should not interfere with nature
It inspires a fear of nature's immense power
It teaches him that nature should be conserved and protected
What event causes Victor to shift his focus from natural philosophy to mathematics, and why?
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He fails a test at school and realizes he will never achieve his ambitions in natural philosophy
He witnesses a meteor shower and realizes he can't understand nature without a basis in mathematics
He sees lightning strike a tree and realizes nature is beyond human understanding
He attends a university lecture on mathematics and discovers that he is entranced by the subject
