1. Place a checkmark next to each true statement about Mary Shelley: She was an actress before she became an author.

She wrote Frankenstein as part of a ghost story-telling

competition between friends.

None of her novels were successful during her lifetime.

She lived a very sad, tragic life.

She was the daughter of two political and social activists.

Frankenstein was the only novel she wrote.

Her writing reflects the political, social, and scientific revolutions

of her time.