Flowers for Algernon Quiz 2

Select the 2 correct answers. Why are the doctors uncomfortable around Charlie now? How are they acting?

• Charlie is smarter than the doctors

• He's still the same person when they first met

• They avoid interactions with him

• They treat him like a very important person

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Select the 2 correct choices. How is Algernon changing? How is Charlie changing?

• Algernon bites Charlie, refuses to run the maze and is less motivated.

• Algernon is happier than ever, eating more than before and running the maze more quickly.

• Charlie starts to forget things and he is emotionally unstable.

• Charlie and Algernon become allergic to flowers.

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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

Select the 2 correct choices. Explain the Algernon-Gordon effect.

• The experiment was a failure.

• The experiment was a success.

• Charlie's intelligence will increase.

• Charlie's intelligence will decrease.

What event foreshadows what will happen to Charlie?

• the boy at the restaurant drops a plate

• Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss’s research is incomplete

• Algernon becomes uncooperative and disturbed

• Charlie is given a laboratory of his own

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

• his theory about how quickly artificially increased intelligence deteriorates

• that he has to communicate with Miss Kinnian on a simple level

• that Dr. Nemur doesn’t know the work on experimental intelligence in India

• that Algernon will soon die

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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 leaves New York because--

• his landlady throws him out because he hasn’t paid rent

• he can't get a job now that he isn't a genius

• he doesn't want people to be sorry for him

• he doesn't want the men at the factory to laugh at him again

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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 is it ironic that Joe and Frank come to protect Charlie when he goes back to the factory?

• They have been his friends throughout the story.

• They hated Charlie.

• They are the two that made fun of him earlier (before the operation), so it's ironic that they defend him now.

• They were jealous that Charlie got a raise.

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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

Select the 2 or 3 correct choices. Why does Charlie send Miss Kinnian away on July 25?

• Although he needs her assistance, Charlie wants to maintain his self-respect.

• Charlie didn't want her to see him in such a bad state and feel sorry for him.

• Charlie still loves her.

• Charlie no longer loves Miss Kinnian and never wants to see her again/

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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