Flowers for Algernon Section 5 Quiz

I feel a lot better today, but I guess I’m still a little angry that all the time people were laughing and making fun of me because I wasn’t so smart. When I become intelligent like Mr. Strauss says, with three times my I.Q. of 68, then maybe I’ll be like everyone else and people will like me and be friendly.

I’m not sure what an I.Q. is. Dr. Nemur said it was something that measured how intelligent you were—like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didn’t weigh intelligence at all. He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.

What is ironic about Charlie’s description?

• Charlie thinks that people will like him more when he becomes smarter, however the opposite is true.

• Charlie doesn't know what IQ is, but the doctors do

• Charlie learns that IQ is like a measuring cup and he must fill his mind with knowledge

• People laugh at Charlie, but he still likes them

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When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should use it. Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labor. I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much overjoyed by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so difficult an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Dr. Frankenstein is terrified of the power that he now has.

• Dr. Frankenstein thinks it is too difficult to be successful.

• Dr. Frankenstein is not sure if he wants to create a creature as complex as a human being.

• Dr. Frankenstein is unsure if it is morally right to create a human

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No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting passion.

Choose two statements that best describe what motivates Dr. Frankenstein to do his work.

• He wants the being to look up to him as its creator.

• The work lifts his spirits

• He likes the idea of bringing something dead back to life

• He wants to do something that no one has ever done before.

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Which of the following traits do not describe Dr. Frankenstein?

• self centered

• obsessive

• determined

• indifferent

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Summary of the Book of Genesis from the Old Testament:

God places two people, Adam and Eve, in the beautiful garden of Eden, encouraging them to enjoy themselves but forbidding them to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve encounters a crafty serpent who convinces her to eat the tree’s forbidden fruit and assures her that she will not suffer if she does so. Eve shares the fruit with Adam, and the two are immediately filled with shame and remorse. God discovers their disobedience, and the two are subsequently banished from Eden and made to suffer pain and work to feed themselves.

Which theme does this story share with both “Flowers for Algernon” and Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus?

• All knowledge is dangerous

• Trying to gain access to something forbidden can be dangerous

• You should never trust a talking animal

• When you disobey a higher power, be prepared to be punished.

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Dr. Frankenstein says: Learn from me, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

How might the meaning of this sentence apply to Charlie’s life in “Flowers for Algernon?”

• Charlie will be very happy with his new life

• Knowledge can lead to destruction

• You should be happy where you are in life

• Charlie should continue going to Ms. Kinnian's school

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