Flowers for Algernon Test (7th HLA) Heading:
Multiple Choice
1. Algernon is able to beat Charlie in the maze because
A. Algernon had the operation to make him smarter
B. the mazes are different and Charlie’s is harder
C. all mice are smarter than Charlie
D. Charlie lets Algernon win
2. What do you learn about Charlie’s character from this description he gives of Dr. Strauss?
A. Charlie wishes to be more like he was before the operation.
B. Charlie has discovered that smart people never pretend.
C. Charlie no longer believes that doctors are smart people.
D. Charlie has become suspicious as he has become smarter.
3. When does Charlie discover that his intelligence will be temporary?
A. Algernon’s behavior changes.
B. He no longer understand what he reads.
C. Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss tell him to leave.
D. A policeman finds him wandering the streets.
4. The long story is divided into progress reports in order of date to
A. show that Charlie is unable to think of chapter titles before his surgery
B. track Charlie’s thoughts and development before and after the surgery
C. help Charlie keep track of different reports for Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur
D. tell the story of Charlie’s surgery and learning from different points of view
5. What can you infer about Charlie’s character from the excerpt?
“I told her how can you tell storys about pepul you never met. I said why shud I make up lies. I never tell lies anymore
because I always get caught.”
A. Charlie pretends to be less intelligent because he wants the surgery but cannot afford it.
B. He grows impatient because he wants to have the surgery, but there are many tests to take.
C. Charlie battles depression because he has had a lifetime of failures and disappointments.
D. He lacks creativity because he associates storytelling with lying.
6. Why does Charlie leave the factory a little while after his operation?
A. He wants to spend all his time reading and listening to music?
B. He believes that he is too smart to work in the factory.
C. His coworkers are afraid of his sudden intelligence.
D. Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur want him to live at the lab.
7. The lawyer will ___ the witness’ argument that she was at the store during the robbery.
A. impair
B. refute
C. absurd
D. sensation
8. Proportional means:
A. marked by an increase in determination
B. relating to an event from one’s childhood
C. causing a disturbance in routine or expectation
D. having a constant relation in degree or number
9. What quality in Charlie made them accept him for their experiment?
A. empathy
B. motivation
C. sense of humor
D. age
10. This story is told in the __ point of view.
A. second-person
B. first-person
C. Third person limited
D. Third person omniscient
11. What hope does Charlie have for the operation?
A. He wants to be smarter so that he can become rich.
B. He wants to be smarter so that he can be like other people
C. He wants to be smarter so that Miss Kinnian will marry him.
D. He does not expect any change.
12. When Charlie defends the dishwasher he shows the trait of ___ because he understands what the man is going
through.
A. apathy
B. empathy
C. resistance
D. perseverance
13 . In the _____ point of view the narrator focuses in on one character’s thoughts, feelings and opinions.
A. first person
B. first person and third person limited
C. third person limited and third person omniscient
D. third person limited
14. In the ____ point of view the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
A. third person limited and third person omniscient
B. first person
C. third person limited
D. third person omniscient
15. In the third-person-limited point of view the pronouns ____ and ___ are used.
A. I and me
B. You and your
C. He and she
D. They and you
Fill in the blank ( The answers are more than one word.)
16. To understand a character’s motivation, a reader should consider three things; a narrator’s direct comments, your
own understanding of emotions that drive human behavior, and
______________________________________________________ .
17. A third-person-limited narrator doesn’t know ________________________________________________ .
Short Answer- Answer in complete and correct answers.
18. Why does Charlie devote himself to research so intensely when Algernon’s behavior changes?
19. Why did Charlie leave New York? Do you think this was a good idea? Explain.
20. What are the first signs of regression (his intelligence declining) that Charlie recognizes in himself? Explain and give
examples.
21. Do you believe that Charlie is happier when he is less intelligent before the operation or more intelligent after the
operation? Use details from the story to support your response.
22. What is the Algernon-Gordon effect? Explain.
23. How does Charlie’s operation isolate him? Support your response with details from the story.
