“Flowers for Algernon” Test - Plainview



“Flowers for Algernon” Even more study questions-the answers.

Fill in the blank with the best answer:

1- Charlie can best be described as kind, caring, and naïve.

2- Charlie meets Miss Kinnian at the school for slow adults.

3- Charlie Gordon agrees to participate in the experiment because he wants to be smart, like everyone else.

4- Miss Kinnian recommends Charlie for the experiment because he was the most motivated of all her students.

5- Dr. Strauss makes Charlie smarter by operating on Charlie’s brain.

6- As Charlie becomes more intelligent, he realizes that Drs. Strauss and Nemur are not as brilliant as he thought they were. They really don’t care about him.

7- One of the things that the author wants people to realize is the way we treat those who are less intelligent than we are.

8- At the end of the story, Charlie will most likely leave New York and die like Algernon did.

9- At the end of the story, Charlie’s view of his participation in the experiment is that he was glad he participated because he remembered how good it felt to be smart and he knows he did something for science.

10- He feels this way because he feels he did it for all the people like him.

11- Three themes might be

A- We are judged by how we treat others.

B- Everyone is deserving of Respect and kindness.

C- Sometimes it is too hard to fit in with everyone else.

12- We dislike Frank and Joe at the beginning of the story because they make fun of him and trick him into doing “dumb” things.

13- One thing Frank and Joe do to make us dislike them is they get Charlie drunk, beat him up and take his money.

14- This story is considered “Science Fiction” because the operation does not exist.

15- Charlie’s spelling, punctuation and word choices clue the reader into the intelligence level he is at. We judge him by his grammar and intelligence.

16- Algernon foreshadows Charlie’s progress because Algernon had the operation first and whatever he went through Charlie has gone through.

17- At the end of the story, Charlie remembers what it felt like to be smart, and he remembered that people made fun of him. He knows what it means to “pull a Charlie Gordon”.

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