KIDS QUIZ
SCIENCE FICTION
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Question
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“Frankenstein” was written during a competition because ____
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Mary Shelley wanted to prove women could write scary stories.
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the writers were reacting to how boring the world was becoming.
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Mary Shelley wanted to create a very popular Halloween costume.
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the writers were reacting to the changing world they were living in.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Lord Byron’s suggestion of a ghost story competition to while away their Swiss holiday not only inspired Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, but also Polidori’s short prose The Vampyre (1819) which later became a source of inspiration for Bram Stoker’s seminal work, Dracula (1897).
Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, their friend Lord Byron and Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori. The group, trapped indoors by the inclement weather, passed the time telling and writing ghost stories.
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