English Literature CLEP Prep Practice Exam

Who wrote the novel Frankenstein?

1. Jane Austen

2. James Joyce

3. Virginia Woolf

4. Mary Shelley

The correct answer is: Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein. Jane Austen wrote books such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, but not Frankenstein. James Joyce wrote works such as Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but not Frankenstein. Virginia Woolf wrote works such as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, but not Frankenstein. Therefore, the correct answer is D, Mary Shelley.