Flowers for Algernon Quiz 2 (PR13-June13)

Charlie flies in a plane to...

• the conference about his intelligence boosting procedure

• a holiday with Alice Kinnian

• He runs away and buys a ticket to the furtherest place he can find

• he visits his mum

Putting the seatbelt on in the plane reminds him of

• How he feels with Prof. Nemur

• treatment he had as a child to try and make him cleverer

• How he feels with Alice

• How is mother controlled his life

Dr. Guarino is

• a good doctor who cares

• a doctor just trying to get rich

• a cruel doctor who hurts Charlie

• This is not a character in the book!

Which best describes Charlie's parents?

• The mother is more religious and more accepting of Charlie

• The father is more religious and more accepting of Charlie

• The father is more religious and less accepting of Charlie

• The mother is more religious and less accepting of Charlie

What did Charlie Gordon's dad always want to do?

• Be rich

• Live in a big house

• Be a professional footballer

• Open his own barber shop

When Charlie arrives at the conference he

• is impressed by the professors and doctors there

• thinks the professors and doctors are not as clever as they should be

• Feels relaxed and happy

• Helps to keep Algernon in his cage

Algernon is

• the same as always, performing the maze tricks well

• getting smarter and passing his tests even faster

• becoming inconsistent, refusing to solve puzzles or eat

• starting to speak English

Charlie decides to

• Open his own laboratory in Japan because the best research is done there

• leave with the scientists and visit Alice

• stay at the conference longer and teach the scientists what they don't understand

• leave with Algernon and visit his parents

Charlie realises something very important at the conference:

• Mice are smarter than people

• The data shows that he and Algernon will become cleverer than any genius before

• The data shows that he and Algernon will lose their intelligence (regress) again

• Scientists are the people who should make decisions about how the world is run

Answer any of the EQs with reference to your recent reading. EQ1/ To what extent does intelligence (and ability to communicate) determine someone’s worth and happiness?

• EQ2/ How do we balance individual success with the need for love and acceptance?

• EQ3/ How important is the past when we deal with the present?