Flowers for Algernon Test Practice

When Charlie returns to work at the end of the story, he sees Joe and Frank. After their interactions, we see that they are

• antagonists

• dynamic characters

• static characters

• protagonists

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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

Though Charlie regresses at the end of the story, he does retain some knowledge that he ONLY learned from his time being smart. Which of the following supports this conclusion?

• He thinks about his mother and father and their time when he was young.

• He goes to the adult school again.

• He goes to work at Donnegan's Plastic Box Company.

• He says that he pulled a Charlie Gordon when he went to school.

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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

Fanny told Charlie the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible to say how he should not have messed with nature and become smarter than he was when he was born. She used this story as which literary technique?

• symbolism

• simile

• flashback

• metaphor

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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

Algernon bites Charlie. At that moment, the reader is experiencing which literary technique?

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When Charlie feels the darkness closing in, what does he mean?

• He is getting more and more exhausted each day.

• His eyesight is becoming worse day by day.

• His intelligence is dimming and fading day by day.

• He only has dark thoughts and has lost complete motivation to live by the time the story ends.

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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

Which of the following would NOT be a good theme for the story?

• People are not always who we think they are.

• Sometimes, the thing we want most in life turns out not to really make us happy.

• The only way to be truly happy is to have friends at any cost.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When everyone in the factory except Fanny signs a petition to fire Charlie, it is an example of which conflict?

• character vs. character

• character vs. self

• character vs. society

• character vs. supernatural

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The dish that the dishwasher boy shatters is an example of

• symbolism

• metaphor

• personifcation

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

When Charlie says he has lived in both worlds, he then says, "These are my people." To which people is he referring?

• the factory workers

• the intellectuals

• the feeble-minded

• the doctors

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Charlie publishes his findings about the experiment. They are called:

• Algernon's Legacy

• The Strauss and Nemur Hypothesis

• Charlie and Algernon's Journey

• The Algernon Gordon Effect

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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