Flowers for Algernon Part 2

The climax of the story occurs when...

• Charlie realizes that he is in love with Miss Kinnian.

• Charlie discovers that his friends at work are not really friends after all.

• Algernon dies.

• Charlie notices signs of his own regression.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Which event occurs during the FALLING ACTION?

• Charlie has the experimental operation.

• Charlie beats Algernon in the maze for the first time.

• Charlie gets his old job back.

• Charlie begins research in the lab on the procedure he had.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

After which event did Charlie decide he wanted to do work in the field of increasing human intelligence levels?

• Charlie figures out a new way to line up machines at the factory.

• Charlie stands up for the developmentally disabled dishwasher in the diner.

• Charlie discovers the Algernon-Gordon Effect.

• Charlie retakes the inkblot test and is successful in completing the test this time.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

Identify what is being compared in this ANALOGY from the story: "Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows of hunger."

• a child's desire to be smart and a man's desire to be smart

• a baby's hunger and a man's desire to fit in

• a child's desire to be smart and a man's desire to fit in

• a baby's love for its mother and a man's hunger

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Who first discovers that Charlie may lose his intelligence?

• Charlie

• Dr. Strauss

• Miss Kinnian

• Dr. Nemur

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What event FORESHADOWS what may 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.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When Charlie becomes a genius, what is his most important discovery?

• The theory about how quickly artificially increased intelligence deteriorates.

• Dr. Nemur does not know the work on experimental intelligence in India.

• Charlie has to communicate with Miss Kinnian on a simple level.

• Algernon will soon die.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Why does Charlie leave New York?

• He can not get a job now that is no longer a genius.

• He does not want people to be sorry for him.

• He does not want the men at the factory to laugh at him again.

• His landlady throws him out because he has not paid his rent.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What is Charlie's main INTERNAL CONFLICT throughout the story?

• trying to figure out what causes people to laugh at others

• trying to learn to read and spell correctly

• trying to understand his own mind and the nature of how intelligence works

• trying to get along with the factory workers

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

At the end of the story, Charlie ________________.

• has gained a valuable experience but has lost his mental ability.

• is just the same as he was at the beginning of the story.

• again becomes a student in Miss Kinnian's class again.

• deeply regrets that he ever had the operation.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3