Flowers for Algernon - Study Review

1. Charlie fails his first inkblot test because he

• sees images that upset him in the inkblots
• thinks the test is boring
• cannot understand what he is supposed to see besides ink
• is afraid of making a mistake in front of Dr. Strauss

2. Why does Charlie agree to have the operation?

• He wants to be smart and know things like other people do.
• He wants to please Dr. Strauss and Miss Kinnian.
• He wants to be able to get a better job.
• He wants to beat Algernon in the maze test.

3. What do the factory workers mean by saying someone "pulled a Charlie Gordon"?

• Someone did something funny.
• Someone did something stupid.
• Someone had an operation.
• Someone lost something.

4. Charlie hopes that when he becomes smarter, people will be

• happier
• less worried
• more understanding
• more friendly

5. When Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur argue about Charlie, Charlie -

• thinks Dr. Strauss should take credit for the experiment
• thinks that he has done something wrong
• feels like he's seen both men clearly for the first time
• feels like he's just an experiment to the two doctors

6. What makes Charlie sad when he takes Miss Kinnian out for dinner?

• Miss Kinnian does love him.
• He knows he will leave her behind intellectually.
• Miss Kinnian thinks she was wrong to encourage him to have questions.
• He thinks that Miss Kinnian will refuse to have anything more to do with him.

7. Which of the following events is NOT caused by the event which Charlie defends the boy and the restaurant? (this event did not happen after the boy dropped the dishes)

• Charlie is disgusted at himself for at first laughing at the boy.
• Charlie remembers how he also used to play the clown.
• Charlie realizes how intelligent he has become.
• Charlie decides to work in the field of human intelligence.

8. Which event foreshadows what will 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.

9. When Charlie becomes a genius, his most important discovery is -

• the theory about quickly artificially increased intelligence deteriorates (the Algernon-Gordon Effect)
• that he has to communicate with Miss Kinnian on a simple level
• that Dr. Nemur doesn't know the work on experimental intelligence in India
• that Algernon will die

10. Charlie leaves New York because

• his landlady throws him out because he hasn't paid the rent.
• he can't get a job now that he isn't a genius.
• he doesn't want people to be sorry for him.
• he doesn't want the men at the factory to laugh at him again