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WorksheetsFlowers for Algernon - final review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 45mins
What bible story does Flowers for Algernon allude to?
Noah's flood
Adam and Eve
David vs. Goliath
Creation of the World
What does Charlie begin to realize about Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss when he overhears them arguing after the surgery?
They are best friends working together.
They are not intelligent at all.
They are arguing with one another over who will take credit for the experiment.
They are brothers who are both scientists.
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.
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
Why do Charlie's fellow co-workers want Charlie fired?
They think he is evil.
They have become frightened by his bad temper.
They think he is damaging the factory.
They become suspicious of Charlie as he mysteriously becomes smarter.
What does the information about the negative effect of the experiment on Charlie's mind reveal about the author's point of view and act as central themes for the story?
Changes in someone's human behavior can be threatening to the people around them.
Experimenting on the human mind is fascinating and should continue
Human beings should try to gain as much knowledge as possible so they can contribute to the world.
What is Charlie's final request in his last progress report?
leave flowers on Algernon's grave
donate money to Miss Kinnian's school
to share and continue his research
offer the operation. to other people who want it
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.
When Charlie discovers the Algernon-Gordon effect, he realizes that
The operation should have been done differently
The doctors have been lying to him.
The experiment will fail.
He will become even more intelligent.
When Charlie defends the dishwasher in the restaurant he does all of the following EXCEPT
is disgusted with himself for at first laughing at the boy
remembers that he also used to play the clown
realizes how intelligent he has become.
decides to work in the field of human intelligence
Which of the following foreshadows what will happen to Charlie?
What happens to Algernon
Burt's comments about I.Q.
Mrs. Flynn's change in attitude
the doctors' arguments with each other
One theme of this story is that being a good person
requires a high level of intelligence
is easier for highly intelligent people
is harder for highly intelligent people
has little, if anything, to do with intelligence
How does Charlie react to the degrading comments made about the young, mentally handicapped diner worker dropping plates?
Charlie takes part in making the degrading comments.
Charlie ignores the diner worker and his accident.
Charlie helps the diner worker clean up the mess from the accident.
Charlie stands up for the diner worker and yells at the people making the degrading comments.
At the end of the story, Charlie…
moves away.
tells Miss Kinnian that he loves her.
sues Dr. Strauss and the psychology department.
finds his mother.
Why is it important that the text is in first person?
The reader can feel a disconnect with Charlie
The reader can see the actual progress of the progress reports.
The reader gets more factual information this way.
The reader can really see how bad of a person Charlie is.
What evidence best supports that Charlie's friends use "Being a Charlie Gordon" in a bad way?
"I don't know why they say that, but they always laugh."
"That made me laff. their really my friends and they like me."
"I never lost any packiges."
"Ernie lost a packige. He said Ernie what you trying to be a Charlie Gordon."
In paragraph 119, Charlie says "I didn't want to think of that possibility any more than elderly people want to think of death." How are these two things similar?
They are similar because Charlie is getting old, and he might die.
They are similar because losing his intelligence would be the end, like death is the end.
They are similar because old people are smart, and they lose their intelligence.
They are similar because Charlie will die one day, and old people are close to death.
In the July 27th entry, Charlie describes an incident where Joe Carp grabs a co-workers collar and states "leave him alone or I'll break your neck." How does this differ from earlier scenes with Joe Carp?
In previous scenes, Joe makes fun of Charlie. In this scene, Joe stands up for Charlie.
In previous scenes, Joe stands up for Charlie, and in this scene, Joe threatens Charlie.
In previous scenes, Joe makes fun of Charlie, and in this scene, Joe threatens Charlie.
In previous scenes Joe is friendly to Charlie, and in this scene is hateful toward Charlie.
What is Charlie's main internal conflict throughout the story?
Trying to understand his own mind and nature of intelligence
trying to learn to read and write with punctuation
trying to get along with the factory workers
trying to figure out what causes people to laugh at others
"Flowers for Algernon" is classified as what genre?
Fiction
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Non-fiction
The author of Flowers for Algernon is
Ray Bradbury
George Lucas
Daniel Keyes
Gene Rodenberry
Which doctor did Charlie call a "grouch?"
Dr. Nemur
Dr. Strauss
Dr. Weiner
Dr. Hoppe
What emotion does Charlie experience for the first time with Miss Kinnian?
humor
frustration
love
gratitude
Which conflict does Charlie experience as his intelligence grows toward genius levels?
He is evicted from his apartment.
People make fun of him.
He is unable to effectively communicate with others.
He is insecure about his fame and notoriety.
Why does Charlie leave his job at the factory?
The doctors need him to work full-time at the laboratory.
He is too smart to work as a janitor.
He is angry that some of his former friends were making fun of him.
The workers signed a petition requesting that he be fired.
Why is the situation with the boy at the diner an example of situational irony?
Charlie should be too smart by this point in the story to make a public scene in the diner.
The reader knows that the server boy is mentally disabled just like Charlie used to be.
It should be expected that Charlie would be sensitive to the boy’s situation, but he laughs at him, too.
The incident inspires Charlie to work to increase human intelligence levels for all people.
What event most closely marks the climax of the story?
Charlie realizes he wants to use his intelligence to help others
Charlie moves away from New York
Charlie is welcomed back to work by his old friends
Algernon bites Charlie
Which quote foreshadows what happens to Charlie by the end of the story?
What did I do to make them hate me so?
We created quite a sensation, Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss were proud of us.
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
I didn’t want to think of that possibility any more than elderly people want to think of death.
Why does Charlie move away from NY at the end of the story?
He didn’t want people to feel sorry for him
He fears that people will begin to make fun of him once again
He is upset that he can no longer be with Miss Kinnian
He thinks it will be easier to make friends somewhere else
Why is it important that Charlie overhears Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss arguing after his surgery?
He learns their motives are partially selfish.
He realizes he is more intelligent than they are.
He understands that Dr. Strauss has never really liked him.
He overhears that the effects of the surgery likely won’t last.
Why does Fanny tell Charlie that “It was evil when Eve listened to the snake and ate from the tree of knowledge”?
to emphasize that his sudden intelligence scares people and makes them suspicious
to warn Charlie that the doctors’ motivations were evil and selfish
to suggest that she knows the surgery won’t be permanent
to compare Charlie to a snake who is trying to harm the other employees at the factory
Which of the following quotes best illustrates Charlie’s connection with Robinson Crusoe?
He’s smart and fingers out all kinds of things so he can have a house and food and hes a good swimmer.
Only I feel sorry because hes all alone and has no frends.
But I think their must be somebody else on the iland because theres a picture with his funny umbrella looking at footprints.
I want to find out more about what happens to him but Miss Kinnian says thats all there is.
