After Reading Flowers for Algernon

Why  do the doctors use Charlie in their experiment?

• They feel he is motivated to try to learn
• He is the only person willing to try it.
• They see that he has bonded with Algernon
• They know he needs a better job.

Who is Algernon?

• One of the doctors

• Charlie's teacher at school for slow adults

• Charlie's friend

• A lab mouse

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What characters share a parallel journey in the story?

• Miss Kinnian and Charlie

• Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss

• Charlie and Algernon

• Joe Carp and Frank Reily.

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Which of the following can we infer is the reason for Dr. Strauss requiring Charlie to keep a journal?

• To monitor if Charlie was being dishonest about his work hours.
• To monitor Charlie's progress through his words and thoughts.
• To closely watch his communication with people outside the hospital, including his mother and father.
• To secure Algernon's place in medical history.

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What type of test does the man give to Charlie at the very beginning of the story that he also takes later on and does better on?

• a reading test

• a math test

• a health test

• an ink blot test

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At first Charlie lost the race against Algernon, why?

• Charlie's IQ was the same as Algernon's IQ.

• Algernon had been made smarter through an experiment.

• Charlie was tired.

• Charlie didn't have his glasses so he couldn't see.

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Why does Charlie finally beat Algernon?

• Charlie got lucky.

• Algernon was tired from racing all time.

• Algernon wasn't feeling well.

• Charlie is getting smarter.

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What do Charlie's "friends" mean when they say someone "really pulled a Charlie Gordon"?

• they did a cool trick
• they did something kind
• they did something smart
• they did something dumb

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What can you infer about Charlie's relationship with his co-workers before the experiment?

• He thinks they are good friends and fails to realize that they sometimes tease him.

• He is deeply hurt by their teasing and refuses to believe that they mean it in good fun.

• They are afraid of him and do not like to socialize

• They try so hard to be kind to him.

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Why does Charlie say he feels "sick inside...inside my chest it feels empty"? 

• He was fired from his job. 
• He figured out what it means to "pull a Charlie Gordon." 
• The doctors gave him bad news. 
• Algernon beat him in another race. 

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