WorksheetsFlowers for Algernon Study Guide
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 32mins
What was Charlie's experience during the first inkblot test?
He sees so many different things, they have to stop the test.
Compared to Algernon, he performs that test poorly.
He gets super violent and angry.
He sees only ink.
Why would Charlie have been a good candidate for the surgery?
Like Algernon, he is motivated for his "cheese".
They noted he had a special relationship with Algernon.
No one else is willing to do it after realizing the potential consequences.
He wants a better job with a bigger brain.
Why do Charlie's coworkers want him gone?
They think he's become an awful employee.
They're terrified of the change in Charlie and his sudden increase of smarts.
They're totally jealous of his new life.
He makes their life harder.
What is an element of the langauge of the passage that shows me Charlie's reverting/regressing?
He suddenly hates Algernon.
He gets Ms. Kinnian to go on a date with him.
He learns three new languages.
His spelling & puncutation becomes very bad.
Describe Charlie's emotional state by the end of the story.
Full of himself
Not feeling the pressure anymore, but he resents his scientist buddies.
Melancholy but hopes for things to work out.
Hateful and mean to everyone
Define suspicion.
Distrusting of others' actions.
To become run down and worse.
To reflect on the self.
A person punished for a crime.
Define deterioration.
To get better.
To worsen with time.
To distrust others.
Self-reflection.
Define introspective.
Bringing someone in for a crime.
To distrust others.
To worsen over time.
To be self-aware and analyze your own thoughts.
What is one detail that shows me Charlie has below-average intelligence?
His affection for Algernon.
His analysis of the doctors' work as being below his own.
His interactions with Miss Kinnian while they are dating.
His sentences are very short, basic, and mirror an elementary school child's writing.
What was Charlie's word for the maze?
Amazing
Amazed
Cheese
Amazering
What is the biggest reason for Charlie's willingness to have the surgery?
He is super lonely with no friends or social life (from his perspective).
He wants to impress Miss Kinninan because he's in love with her.
Because he knows he's different from everyone else and he wants to be more like them.
He wants to beat that darn mouse more than anything.
What is the point of view in this story?
Third person objective (We don't know anyone's thoughts and only know what we see)
First person naive, from Charlie's PoV
Third person omniscient (we know all the deets without inferring)
First person narrative, from Charlie's docs' PoVs
What do I know about Charlie based on his narration of the story?
We get an outside idea of Charlie's feelings from the narrator.
I have to guess his feelings based on how he writes.
I get his feelings directly from him.
I don't know how he feels.
What theme is connected to the allusion to the Garden of Eden (Eve & the tree of knowledge of good and evil)? Pick two.
We are comforted by the natural world.
Change is scary.
Knowledge is powerful.
People should not play God.
You shouldn't covet things you don't already have.
What's a downside to science after reading Flowers for Algernon?
We dump way too much money into the sciences.
Sometimes, science can create problems. (Unintended consequences, there's a vocab word for you)
The world is a better place because of science.
Science messes up the environment.
What does sub- mean?
Around
Overhead
Below
Before
What is the direct object in this sentence? To start, Charlie wrote a lot of journal entries.
Wrote
A lot of
Journal
Entries
What is the indirect object in this sentence? The scientists gave Algernon a ton of motivation through cheese.
Algernon
Gave
Motivation
A ton of
