Flowers for Algernon Quiz

What is the inciting incident in the story?

• Charlie is chosen to undergo the experimental operation to improve his intelligence.

• Charlie begins to document his progress in reports.

• Charlie wakes up from the operation.

• Charlie begins to race Algernon in the mazes.

The climax of the story occurs when...

• Charlie notices signs of his own regression.

• Charlie discovers that his friends at work aren’t really friends after all.

• Algernon dies.

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

Which event below occurs during the falling action?

• Charlie has the experimental operation.

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

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

• Charlie gets his old job back.

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

• Charlie discovers the Algernon-Gordon Effect.

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

The story includes allusions to all of the following except...

• Paradise Lost

• Romeo and Juliet

• the bible

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 fit in

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

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

Who first discovers that Charlie may lose his intelligence?

• Charlie

• Dr. Strauss

• Miss Kinnian

• Dr. Nemur

What is the first sign that Algernon is regressing?

• Algernon becomes less cooperative.

• Algernon refuses to eat.

• Algernon refuses to run the maze.

• Algernon bites Charlie.

Why does Dr. Nemur want the experiment to be successful?

• Dr. Nemur wants for Charlie to retain his intelligence so that he can work in the lab.

• Dr. Nemur’s main concern is for Charlie’s well-being.

• Dr. Nemur wants recognition in the scientific community.

• Dr. Nemur’s main concern is that he has enough money to keep the laboratory open.

Which excerpt from the story best supports your answer to the previous question?

• He has a very good mind, but it struggles under the specter of self-doubt. He wants people to take him for a genius.

• Therefore, it is important for him to feel that his work is accepted by the world. I believe that Dr. Nemur was afraid of further delay because he worried that someone else might make a discovery along these lines and take the credit from him.

• Dr. Nemur said remember he will be the first human being ever to have his intelligence tripled by surgical means.

• I remember hearing Burt say that Dr. Nemur had a shrew of a wife who was pushing him all the time to get things published so that he could become famous. Burt said that the dream of her life was to have a big shot husband.