Flowers for Algernon Savvas Test Prep

Flowers for Algernon Test Prep

Direct and Indirect Objects, Vocabulary, Prefixes
Comprehension and Structure

A noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb and answers the question Whom? or What?

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Tyrone built two birdhouses.

What was built?
Birdhouses

Direct Object

Multiple Choice

What is the direct object in this sentence?

"Charlie uses the dictionary to study."

• Study

• Charlie

• Dictionary

Multiple Choice

What is the direct object in this sentence?

"Charlie kept the rabbit's foot in his pocket."

• Charlie

• Foot

• Pocket

Multiple Choice

What is the direct object in this sentence?

"Charlie couldn't see anything in the ink."

• Anything

• Ink

• Charlie

Is a noun or pronoun that follows an action verb and names the person or thing to which or for which something is done.

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Tyrone built Andrea two birdhouses.

For whom Tyrone built for?
Andrea

Indirect Object

Multiple Choice

What is the indirect object in this sentence?

"The doctors gave Charlie the test."

• Test

• Doctors

• Charlie

Multiple Choice

What is the indirect object in this sentence?

"Miss Kinnian teaches Charlie spelling."

• Miss Kinnian

• Charlie

• Spelling

• Teaches

Multiple Choice

What is the indirect object in this sentence?

"The dictionary helps Charlie improve his vocabulary."

• Dictionary

• Charlie

• Vocabulary

Indirect Object:
Is a noun or pronoun that follows an action verb and names the person or thing to which or for which something is done.

Putting it All Together

Direct Object:
A noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb and answers the question Whom? or What?

Match

Match the pairs together

• Indirect Object Answers:

• Direct Objects Answers:

• The doctor showed Charlie the cards.

• The doctor showed Charlie the cards.

To whom? For whom?

To what?

Whom?

What?

Indirect Object (underlined)

Direct Object

(underlined)

• To whom? For whom?

  To what?

• Whom?

  What?

• Indirect Object (underlined)

• Direct Object

  (underlined)

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined word in each sentence.

Charlie keeps progress reports.

• Direct Object

• Indirect Object

Flowers for Algernon Vocabulary

Suspicion

Deterioration

Introspective

Multiple Choice

What would most likely arouse suspicion?

• You are running late but your little sister is ready to go

• You are study for a test and your sister is doing homework.

• Your piece of cake is missing and your little sister has chocolate stains on her shirt.

• Your piano recital is on Saturday and your little sister has invited 2 of her friends to go.

Multiple Choice

If a person's house is experiencing deterioration, what is happening to the house?

• The house is brand new and in pristine condition.

• The house is falling apart and needs lots of renovations.

• The house is moderately aged but is overall doing okay

Multiple Choice

What kind of behavior would be typical of someone who is NOT introspective?

• They rarely apologize and don't think about their actions

• They reflect on their actions and offer sincere apologies

• They reflect on how their habits impact their behavior

Flowers for Algernon
Prefix: Sub-

​Prefix meaning under or below

​​Sub-

Multiple Choice

The Prefix Sub- means

• Next to

• Above

• Under/Below

Match

Match the words to the sentence it belongs to

• The buses stopped running due to the blizzard, forcing us to take the ______ instead.

• My performance on the exam was _______, so opted to retake it in hopes of getting a better score.

• I decided to move to a ______ when my rent in the city was tripled.

• The _____ moved slowly beneath the surface of the water, invisible to the world above the sea.

Subway

Substandard

Suburb

Submarine

• Subway

• Substandard

• Suburb

• Submarine

Comprehension & Structure

Multiple Choice

What happens during Charlie's first inkblot test?

• He sees many pictures in great detail

• He has an extremely violent temper.

• He performs worse than Algernon.

• He cannot see any pictures and imagines a pen spilling the ink

Multiple Choice

Choose the conclusion a reader can most accurately draw from this excerpt from “Flowers for Algernon.”

They called the mouse Algernon. Algernon was in a box with a lot of twists and turns like all kinds of walls and they gave me a pencil and a paper with lines and lots of boxes. On one side it said START and on the other side it said FINISH. They said it was amazed and that Algernon and me had the same amazed to do. I dint see how we could have the same amazed if Algernon had a box and I had a paper

• The doctors find Charlie amazing.

• Charlie finds Algernon amazing.

• Algernon is running in a maze.

• Algernon is able to read.

Point of View

First-Person

The narrator is in the story & we follow them.

Uses words like: I, Me, Us, We

Third-Person

The narrator may or may nor be in the story

Uses words like : He, She, They

Multiple Choice

What Point of View is Flowers for Algernon written in?

• First-person, from Charlie's doctors POV

• First person, from Charlie's POV

• Third Person, telling the thoughts of many characters

• Third person, telling the thoughts of just Charlie and Miss Kinnian