Flowers for Algernon Quiz
  • 1. Charlie fails his first inkblot test because he ...
A) is afraid of making a mistake in front of Dr. Strauss
B) cannot understand what he is supposed to see besides the ink
C) sees images that upset him in the inkblots
D) thinks the test is boring
  • 2. Why does Charlie agree to have the operation?
A) He wants to be able to get a better job
B) He wants to be smart and know things like other people do
C) He wants to beat Algernon in the maze test
D) He wants to please Dr. Strauss and Miss Kinnian
  • 3. What do the factory workers mean by saying someone "pulled a Charlie Gordon"?
A) Someone lost something
B) Someone did something stupid
C) Someone did something funny
D) Someone had an operation
  • 4. What makes Charlie sad when he takes Miss Kinnian out for dinner?
A) Miss Kinnian will refuse to have anything to do with him
B) He knows he will leave her behind intellectually
C) Miss Kinnian doesn't love him
D) Miss Kinnian thinks she was wrong to encourage him to have the operation
  • 5. Which of the following events was NOT caused by the event in which Charlie defends the boy in the restaurant?
A) Charlie is disgusted with himself for laughing at the boy
B) Charlie realizes how intelligent he has become
C) Charlie remembers how he also used to play the clown
D) Charlie decides to wokr in the field of human intelligence
  • 6. When Charlie becomes a genius, his most important discovery is ...
A) that Algernon will soon die
B) the Dr. Nemur doesn't know the work on experimental intelligence in India
C) that he has to communicate with Miss Kinnian on a simple level
D) his theory about how quickly artificially increased intelligence deteriorates
  • 7. Charlie leaves New York because ...
A) he doesn't want people to be sorry for him
B) his landlady throws him out because he hasn't paid rent
C) he doesn't want the men at the factory to laugh at him again
D) he can't get a job now that he isn't a genius
  • 8. Which of the following episodes is repeated in the story to make parallel episodes?
A) Charlie and Algernon are presented to the American Psychological Association
B) The factory workers get Charlie drunk
C) Charlie has an operation
D) The factory workers force Charlie to leave his work
  • 9. How is the subplot involving Charlie and the scientists resolved?
A) Charlie gives Dr. Strauss and inferiority complex
B) Dr. Strauss tries to visit Charlie, but Charlie won't let him in
C) Charlie overtakes them in intelligence and finds the flaw in their experiment
D) Dr. Nemur publishes his report and leaves Dr. Strauss out of it
  • 10. What is Charlie's main internal conflict throughout the story?
A) Trying to learn to read and spell correctly
B) Trying to get along with the factory workers
C) Trying to understand his own mind and the nature of intelligence
D) Trying to figure out what causes people to laugh at others
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