"Flowers for Algernon"

What is Charlie's main internal conflict throughout the story?

• Trying to understand his own mind and nature of intelligence
• trying to learn to read and write
• trying to get along with the factory workers
• trying to figure out what causes people to laugh at others

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When Charlie becomes a genius, his most important discovery is...

• That Algernon will die soon.
• That Dr. Nemur doesn't know how the work on experimental intelligence in India
• His theory about how quickly artificially increased intelligence deterioriates
• That he has to communicate with Ms. Kinnian on a simple level

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Why does Charlie agree to have the operation?

• He wants to beat Algernon in the maze test.
• He wants to be able to get a better job.
• He wants to please Dr. Strauss and Ms. Kinnian
• He wants to be smart and know things like other people

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

^{Charlie fails his inkblot test because he...}

• Cannot understand what he is supposed to see besides ink
• Afraid of making a mistake in front of Dr. Strauss.
• Thinks the test is boring
• Sees images that upsets him in the inkblots

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What do the factory workers mean by saying someone, "pulled a Charlie Gordon"?

• Someone lost something
• Someone did something funny.
• Someone had an operation
• Someone did something stupid.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Charlie hopes that when he becomes smarter, people will be...

• more happier
• more friendly
• more understanding
• less worried

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What makes Charlie sad when he takes Ms. Kinnian out for dinner?

• He knows that he will leave her behind intellectually.
• Ms. Kinnian doesn't love him.
• Ms. Kinnian thinks she was wrong for encouraging him to have the surgery.
• Ms. Kinnian refuses to have anything to do with him.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What event foreshadows what will happen to Charlie?

• The boy at the restaurant drops a plate.
• Algernon become uncooperative and disturbed.
• Charlie is given a laboratory of his own.
• Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss research is incomplete

In the story's resolution, Charlie

• Is just the same as he was at the beginning of the story.
• Understands that people are still not so friendly.
• Again becomes a student in Ms. Kinnian's class.
• All of the above

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Charlie is naturally ____________ and aware of his thoughts and feelings.

• regression
• refute
• introspective
• deterioration

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4