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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.