The protagonist of this short story is an assistant to the alchemist Cornelius Agrippa. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1833 story in which Winzy witnesses the slow death of his beloved wife after he takes an elixir that allows him to live forever.
ANSWER: “The Mortal Immortal”
[10e] “The Mortal Immortal” is by this author, whose best-known novel is about a scientist named Victor who abandons his devotion to Cornelius Agrippa when his father teaches him about electricity.
ANSWER: Mary Shelley [or Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; accept Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; prompt on Shelley or Godwin; reject “Mary Wollstonecraft”]
[10m] Shortly after his mother dies, Victor Frankenstein starts school at a university in this modern-day country, where a chemistry professor criticizes alchemists and maintains that the “elixir of life” is a “chimera.”
ANSWER: Germany [or Deutschland; or Federal Republic of Germany; or Bundesrepublik Deutschland] (He attends the University of Ingolstadt.)
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