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