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A) Progress reports B) Diary entries C) Audio logs D) Letters to Algernon
A) Exactly one year B) Almost five months C) Ten years D) Two weeks
A) Advanced vocabulary and complex grammar B) Foreign language translations C) Poetic metaphors and rhyming verse D) Elementary spelling errors and awkward sentences
A) The doctor's B) Algernon's C) Charlie's D) An omniscient narrator
A) Third-person omniscient B) First-person perspective C) Third-person limited D) Second-person perspective
A) To hide the true ending from the reader B) To focus primarily on Algernon's internal thoughts C) To maintain suspense about the medical procedure D) To stay in Charlie's mind and through his eyes all the way
A) His deliberate desire to deceive the reader B) His severe memory loss C) His mild intellectual disability D) His lack of interest in recording events
A) Situational irony B) Verbal irony C) Dramatic irony D) Cosmic irony
A) Becomes completely unreadable and chaotic B) Shifts into foreign languages C) Shows marked improvements in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and diction D) Remains entirely unchanged
A) Improvements in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and diction B) Shorter and simpler sentences C) Frequent use of spelling errors D) Increased use of crude slang
A) It remains frozen in childhood B) It narrows significantly C) It broadens D) It becomes entirely visual
A) He forgets how to read B) He stops writing reports C) He becomes an unreliable narrator D) He becomes a reliable narrator
A) By the doctor's notes taking over B) By the loss of his improved skills C) By his refusal to write D) By the sudden introduction of a new narrator
A) Infallible B) Objective C) Omniscient D) Unreliable
A) The changes Charlie experiences from the operation B) The passage of several decades C) The decline of the scientific establishment D) The perspective of Algernon
A) The treatment of elderly citizens B) The treatment of political prisoners C) The treatment of laboratory animals D) The treatment of the mentally disabled
A) Wealth and poverty B) Youth and old age C) Science and religion D) Intellect and emotion
A) They can influence a person later in life B) They are easily forgotten C) They have no bearing on the present D) They only affect physical health
A) Cybernetic enhancement B) Space exploration C) Uplift D) Time travel
A) A scientific journal editor B) An anonymous reviewer C) Daniel Keyes D) Algis Budrys
A) Astounding Stories B) The Magazine of Fantasy C) Galaxy Science Fiction D) The New York Times
A) August 1966 B) January 1965 C) December 1968 D) February 1967
A) Keyes was a lifelong science fiction author B) Keyes had published little fiction C) Keyes had written dozens of novels D) Keyes had retired from writing
A) A mediocre beginning B) The most confusing book of the year C) The best novel of the year D) The worst science fiction story
A) 40 years old B) 32 years old C) 18 years old D) 25 years old
A) 100 B) 68 C) 85 D) 50
A) A bookstore B) A laboratory C) A bakery D) A warehouse
A) Norma Gordon B) Fay Lillman C) Rose Gordon D) Miss Alice Kinnian
A) A local community center B) Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults C) The bakery D) Warren State Home
A) A rat named Algernon B) A hamster named Charlie C) A mouse named Nemur D) A mouse named Algernon
A) 185 B) 200 C) 150 D) 130
A) She loved him deeply B) She protected him C) She resented him D) She was indifferent
A) Manhattan B) New York C) Chicago D) Boston
A) Alice Kinnian B) Professor Nemur C) Fay Lillman D) Algernon
A) Chicago B) Manhattan C) Warren State Home D) Brooklyn
A) Rose Gordon B) Fay Lillman C) Alice Kinnian D) Norma Gordon
A) The Nemur–Strauss phenomenon B) The Plato regression theory C) The Algernon–Gordon effect D) The Beekman intelligence theorem
A) Alzheimer's disease B) Amnesia C) Schizophrenia D) Dementia
A) That Alice visit him every week B) That Professor Nemur apologize to him C) That someone put flowers on Algernon's grave D) That his research be burned
A) Socrates' Apology B) Homer's Odyssey C) Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics D) Plato's The Republic
A) 26-page B) 10-page C) 50-page D) 100-page
A) May 2000 B) October 1979 C) January 1966 D) April 1959
A) Penguin Books B) HarperCollins C) Harcourt Brace D) Bantam
A) 1970 B) 1968 C) 1966 D) 1979
A) 50 languages B) 27 languages C) 5 languages D) 10 languages
A) 45 B) 25 C) 37 D) 16
A) Manager B) Accountant C) Dishwasher D) Janitor
A) 10-year-old B) 16-year-old C) 21-year-old D) 37-year-old
A) Babel-17 B) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction C) Charly D) Algernon
A) Homer B) Plato C) Aristotle D) Socrates
A) 1959 B) 1945 C) 1966 D) 1957
A) Burt B) Strauss C) Horace Gold D) Nemur
A) IQ test B) Rorschach test C) Stanford-Binet test D) Turing test
A) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress B) Babel-17 C) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame D) A Curious Feeling
A) Robert A. Heinlein B) Tony Banks C) Daniel Keyes D) Samuel R. Delany
A) HOMR B) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress C) Babel-17 D) The Bourne Legacy
A) Samuel R. Delany B) Karine Pontiès C) Daniel Keyes D) Robert A. Heinlein
A) Third B) Forty-third C) Second D) First
A) 132 B) 1960 C) 100 D) 1966
A) Prix de la Critique's B) SFWA retroactive C) Science Fiction Writers of America's D) American Library Association's
A) 1960 B) 3 C) 43 D) 2000
A) Tony Banks B) Robert A. Heinlein C) Karine Pontiès D) Samuel R. Delany
A) The Bourne Legacy B) A Curious Feeling C) HOMR D) Holeulone
A) Tony Banks B) Karine Pontiès C) Daniel Keyes D) Robert A. Heinlein
A) Prix de la Critique de la Communauté française de Belgique B) Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction C) Nebula Award for Best Novel D) SFWA Author Emeritus
A) Flowers for Charlie B) Holeulone C) The Bourne Legacy D) HOMR
A) Babel-17 B) A Curious Feeling C) The Bourne Legacy D) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress |