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"Flowers for Algernon"

Quiz by Aubrey Cooper

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  • Q1
    What can you infer about Charlie's character from the following excerpt........."I told her how can you tell storys about pepul you never met. I said why shud I make up lies. I never tell lies any more because I always get caut."
    Charlie pretends to be less intelligent because he wants the surgery but can't afford it.
    Charlie is impatient because he wants to have the surgery, but there are many tests to take.
    Charlie lacks creativity because he associates storytelling with lying.
    Charlie battles depression because he has had a lifetime of failures and disappointments.
    30s
  • Q2
    Why does Charlie agree to have the operation?
    He wants to beat Algernon in the maze test.
    He wants to please Dr. Strauss and Miss Kinnian
    He wants to be able to get a better job.
    He wants to be smart and know things like other people do.
    30s
  • Q3
    What do they factory workers mean by saying someone "pulled a Charlie Gordon?"
    Someone did something funny.
    Someone did something stupid.
    Someone had an operation.
    Someone lost something.
    30s
  • Q4
    What makes Charlie sad when he takes Miss Kinnian out for dinner? (April 28)
    Miss Kinnian thinks she was wrong to encourage him to have the operation.
    He knows he will leaver her behind intellectually.
    He thinks that Miss Kinnian will refuse to have anything more to do with him.
    Miss Kinnian doesn't love him.
    30s
  • Q5
    Why does Charlie leave the factory? (April 30)
    His coworkers are afraid of his sudden intelligence.
    He wants to spend all his time reading and listenign to music.
    Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur want him to live at the lab.
    He believes that he is too smart to work in a factory.
    30s
  • Q6
    What do you learn about Charlie's character from this description of Dr. Straus from his May 15 entry?......."It was as if he'd hidden himself in order to deceive me, pretending--as do so many people I've discovered--to be what he is not."
    Charlie wishes to be more like he was before the operation.
    Charlie no longer believes the doctors are smart people.
    Charlie has discovered that smart people never pretend.
    Charlie has become suspicious as he has become smarter.
    30s
  • Q7
    Which event foreshadows what will happen to Charlie?
    Algernon becomes uncooperative and disturbed.
    The boy at the restaurant drops a plate.
    Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss's research is incomplete.
    Charlie is given a laboratory of his own.
    30s
  • Q8
    In the end, Charlie leaves New York because...
    he doesn't want people to feel sorry for him.
    he doesn't want the men at the factory to make fun of him again.
    he can't get a job now because he isn't a genius.
    his landlady throws him out because he can't pay his rent.
    30s

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