Flowers for Algernon: Unit Test: 2020

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78 questions

Flowers for Algernon: Unit Test: 2020

Last updated almost 3 years ago

78 questions

What does it mean if someone "pulls a Charlie Gordon?"

A) They lose something

B) They do something stupid

C) They hurt themselves

D) They forget something important

The inkblot test Charlie takes is called the -

A) Raw Shock Test

B) Rorschach Test

C) Thematic Apperception Test

D) Mensa Inkblot Test

During the inkblot test at the beginning of the story, what is Charlie afraid of?

A) failing the test

B) forgetting the answers

C) getting in trouble 

D) the man who is administering the test 

Which of the following quotes from the story proves that your answer to #3 is correct?

A) "I told him I saw a inkblot. He said yes and it made me feel good. I thot that was all but when I got up to go he stopped me." 

B) "He said pepul see things in the ink. I said show me where. He said think." 

C) "He gave me a chance with another card that had 2 kinds of ink spilled on it red and blue." 

Why does Charlie want to attend the adult night school?

A) to make new friends

B) to impress his parents

C) to have someplace to go where he feels like he belongs 

D) to become smarter 

Which of the following things is NOT one of Charlie's good luck charms?

A) A locket from his mother

B) A lucky penny

C) A horseshoe

D) A rabbit's foot

Why does Miss Kinnian recommend Charlie for the experiment?

A) She is in love with him

B) He has a peaceful personality

C) He has the strongest sense of motivation

D) He is the only student available for the experiment

Before Charlie undergoes the operation he writes "I don't care if it herts." This is an example of which of the following literary devices?

A) Symbolism

B) Characterization

C) Foreshadowing

D) Flashback

How does Charlie view his work, knowing that he will start to lose his intelligence?

A) As a failure 

B) As incomplete 

C) As a scientific discovery 

D) As a work in progress 

What could be an inference made on Charlie's future based on what we know from the story and its ending?

A) Charlie will eventually die 

B) Charlie and Miss Kinnian will get married 

C) Charlie's intelligence will return 

D) Charlie will go back and forth with being smart 

Charlie and Algernon's mind went through regression. What does this mean?

A) To return back to its previous state 

B) To increase very fast 

C) To switch 

D) To stop existing 

Which of the following does Charlie begin to recognize as he progresses with his intelligence?

A) He realizes he is now more intelligent than both of the doctors who performed the experiment 

B) He realizes he loves the girl with whom he works but sees her as inferior to him 

C) He realizes he will one day achieve his dream: space travel and the scientific advancements 

D) He realizes that he will only be intelligent enough to get a high school diploma 

The second test Charlie takes requires him to "make up stories" about people in pictures. This test is called the

A) IQ Visual Test

B) Visual Impressions Test

C) Advanced Visual Test

D) Thematic Apperception Test

During the maze races against Algernon, one of the men testing Charlie hides from his view

A) his papers

B) the answers

C) a watch

D) a syringe

Before the operation, Dr. Strauss tells Charlie

A) not to worry because everything will be alright

B) not to think too much before the operation

C) not to be distracted after the operation by the immediate effects

D) not to bother with superstition but to focus on science

Charlie dislikes the Thematic Apperception Test because

A) he doesn't want to make up lies about people

B) he believes the pictures are not real

C) he misses his family when he looks at the pictures

D) he dislikes Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss

The "present" Dr. Strauss has for Charlie after the operation is

A) a small maze he can practice with at home

B) a tape recorder to record his thoughts and feelings

C) a canvas and tools for him to paint with

D) a television-like device that will teach him while he sleeps

Why did Charlie decide to undergo the operation in the first place?

A) He wants to be able to get a better job to help support himself

B) He wants to beat Algernon in the maze test

C) He wants to be smart and know things like other people do

D) He wants to please Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss

Charlie thinks the men at the factory are his good friends, but based on the way the story is written, the audience knows otherwise. This is an example of

A) Situational irony

B) Foreshadowing

C) Allusion

D) Dramatic irony

Who is Charlie's only true friend throughout the story?

A) Miss Kinnian

B) Dr. Strauss

C) Amos Borg

D) Burt

What Charlie Gordon and Robinson Crusoe share in common is

A) a desire to become intelligent

B) a desire for human connection

C) a desire for romantic love

D) a desire for food, shelter, and clothing

After telling Miss Kinnian that his "friends are smart people but there good" she

A) laughs at him for not realizing they are not his true friends

B) goes to the bathroom because she said she has something in her eye

C) stares at him blankly, not understanding

D) asks him to repeat himself

The first punctuation mark Charlie learns to use is the

A) colon

B) period

C) comma

D) apostrophe

Why does Charlie leave his job at the factory?

A) His co-workers sign a petition demanding that he be fired

B) He is bored with the easy work he is doing

C) He wants to be a scientist full-time

D) He hates the bullies at work and never wants to see them again

Complete the following quote from the story: "I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others like to have me around..."

A) to use me

B) to befriend me

C) to make fun of me

D) to teach me

What is Burt's opinion of IQ?

A) IQ measures how intelligent you are

B) IQ measures how much intelligence you can gain

C) IQ isn't a valuable measure

D) IQ is a combination of what you already know and what you could know in the future

When Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur argue about Charlie, Charlie

A) thinks Dr. Strauss should take credit for the experiment

B) thinks that he has done something wrong

C) feels like he’s seen both men clearly for the first time

D) thinks Dr. Nemur should take credit for the experiment 

Why does Charlie receive a $25 bonus at work?

A) He receives a bonus every year 

B) He figures out a new way to line up the machines that will save his boss a lot of money

C) He is awarded Employee of the Month 

D) He receives a promotion 

After the incident with the diner worker, Charlie decides that he must

A) use his gift of intellectual awareness to help others who are like he was before the operation 

B) volunteer his time on the weekends to teach adults with mental disabilities 

C) go to work for Miss Kinnian at the adult learning center 

D) spend more time with Algernon in the lab

When Charlie is given his own lab, he starts sleeping

A) on a cot in the lab 

B) with the television off 

C) in Dr. Nemur's office 

D) near Algernon's cage 

In his lab research, what does Charlie conclude?

A) Charlie's newly gained intelligence will be permanent 

B) Charlie's newly gained intelligence will begin to fade away 

C) Charlie will only grow smarter and smarter

D) Charlie will become smarter, but Algernon will continue to decrease in his intelligence 

Which event below occurs during the falling action?

A) Charlie has the experimental operation 

B) Charlie begins research in the lab on the procedure that he has 

C) Charlie beats Algernon in the maze for the first time 

D) Charlie gets his old job back at the factory 

The greatest flaw in Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss's experiment was that they didn't wait long enough after seeing that Algernon's operation was a success before performing the operation on a human (Charlie).

True

False

The significance of the title "Flowers for Algernon" is -

A) Algernon used to run mazes to get flowers as prizes.

B) Charlie places flowers on Algernon's grave after Algernon dies

C) Charlie gave Algernon flowers after Charlie beat Algernon in the maze race

D) Charlie buried Algernon in a flower bed

What characters are parallel, or connected, to one another in the story?

A) Miss Kinnian and Charlie 

B) Charlie and Algernon 

C) Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss 

D) Joe Carp and Frank Reily 

Identify what is being compared in this analogy from the story: "Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows of hunger."

A) a child's desire to be smart and a man's desire to be smart 

B) a baby's hunger and a man's desire to fit in 

C) a child's desire to be smart and a man's desire to fit in 

D) a baby's love for its mother and a man's hunger 

Who first discovers that Charlie may lose his intelligence?

A) Dr. Nemur 

B) Miss Kinnian 

C) Charlie 

D) Dr. Strauss 

Why does Dr. Nemur want the experiment to be successful?

A) Dr. Nemur wants Charlie to retain, or hold onto, his intelligence so that he can work in the lab

B) Dr. Nemur wants recognition in the scientific community 

C) Dr. Nemur wants the best for Charlie and wants him to have a successful career 

D) Dr. Nemur wants to impress Miss Kinnian 

Which excerpt from the story proves that your answer to #38 is correct?

A) "I remember hearing Burt say that Dr. Nemur had a shrew of a wife who was pushing him all the time to get things published so that he could become famous." 

B) "Dr. Nemur said that Dr. Strauss was nothing but an opportunist..." 

C) "Dr. Strauss was shouting back that he contributed just as much, because he found me through Miss Kinnian and performed the operation." 

Which of the following could be a theme from the story?

A) It is never okay to bully another person 

B) Money can always buy happiness 

C) Love conquers all 

D) Crime never pays 

Which of the following quotes from the story proves that your theme from #40 is seen in the story?

A) "They've driven me out of the factory. Now I'm more alone than ever before..." 

B) "Dr. Strauss is very angry at me for not having written any progress reports in two weeks. He's justified because the lab is now paying me a regular salary." 

C) "How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes - how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence." 

How does Charlie react to the degrading comments made about the young, mentally handicapped diner worker dropping plates?

A) Charlie takes part in making the degrading comments toward the man 

B) Charlie ignores the diner worker and his accident 

C) Charlie helps the diner worker clean up the mess from the accident 

D) Charlie stands up for the diner worker and yells at the people making the degrading comments 

Which of the following events is NOT caused by the event during which Charlie defends the boy in the restaurant?

A) Charlie is disgusted with himself for at first laughing at the boy

B) Charlie remembers how he also used to play the clown

C) Charlie realizes how intelligent he has become

D) Charlie decides to work in the field of human intelligence

Charlie hopes that when he becomes smarter, people will be

A) happier

B) less worried

C) more friendly

D) more understanding

Charlie fails his first inkblot test because he

A) sees images that upset him in the inkblots

B) thinks the test is boring

C) cannot understand what he is supposed to see besides ink

D) is afraid of making a mistake in front of Dr. Strauss

Which of the following events foreshadows what will eventually happen to Charlie?

A) The boy at the restaurant drops a plate

B) Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss’s research is incomplete

C) Charlie is given a laboratory of his own

D) Algernon becomes uncooperative and disturbed

When Charlie becomes a genius, his most important discovery is

A) his theory about how quickly artificially increased intelligence deteriorates

B) that he has to communicate with Miss Kinnian on a simple level

C) that Dr. Nemur doesn’t know the work on experimental intelligence in India

D) that Algernon will soon die

What is Charlie’s main internal conflict throughout the story?

A) Trying to understand his own mind and the nature of intelligence

B) Trying to figure out what causes people to laugh at others

C) Trying to learn to read and spell correctly

D) Trying to get along with the factory workers

Which of the following events happens in the exposition of the story?

A) Algernon bites Charlie after Charlie places his hand into Algernon's cage 

B) Charlie stands up for the busboy at the restaurant 

C) Charlie goes out to dinner with Miss Kinnian 

D) The reader finds out that Charlie Gordon is 37 years old and is trying to undergo an operation to become smarter 

In the story’s resolution, Charlie

A) is just the same as he was at the beginning of the story

B) has gained a valuable experience but has lost his mental ability

C) again becomes a student in Miss Kinnian’s class

D) deeply regrets that he ever had the operation

Charlie leaves New York because

A) his landlady throws him out because he hasn’t paid the rent

B) he can’t get a job now that he isn’t a genius

C) he doesn’t want people to feel sorry for him

D) he doesn’t want the men at the factory to laugh at him again

After he gains intelligence, Charlie finds that it makes work at the factory "kind of ________."

A) interesting

B) depressing

C) satisfying

D) lonely

Name the literary element in the following quote from the story by Miss Kinnian, regarding the operation: "Never mind, Charles. I just hope I wasn't wrong to advise you to do this."

A) Symbolism

B) Foreshadowing

C) Allusion

D) Verbal irony

Who in the factory refused to sign the petition due to his or her principles?

A) Amos Borg

B) Joe Carp

C) Frank Reilly

D) Fanny Girden

Why does Charlie "seldom speak to anyone" and spend most of his time in his apartment alone?

A) He finds discussion with average people tiresome

B) He can't connect with people on their level

C) He wanted to better understand the life of Robinson Crusoe

D) He is annoyed with people who don't understand what he is talking about

Charlie finds it odd that honest people would think nothing of

A) abusing a man born of low intelligence

B) abusing people unknown to them

C) abusing handicapped people

D) abusing children

Why do Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss choose Charlie to undergo the operation?

A) He is intelligent 

B) He is motivated 

C) He is in the correct age range that they're looking for 

D) All of the above are correct 

Charlie complains about the television-like device he receives from Dr. Strauss because

A) he can't understand what it is saying 

B) it makes it hard for Charlie to sleep 

C) he doesn't understand its purpose 

D) all of the above are correct

How is the inkblot test different for Charlie the second time he takes it?

A) Charlie is able to complete the test and find pictures in the ink 

B) Charlie understands the test and what is supposed to say about his level of intelligence 

C) Charlie does not get frustrated by the test administer 

D) all of the above are correct 

As Charlie gets ready for the operation, what goal does he hope to achieve after the surgery?

A) to be smarter than Algernon 

B) to be smarter than Dr. Nemur

C) to be smarter than Dr. Strauss

D) to be smarter than Miss Kinnian

As Charlie's mental powers grow, the people around him react with -

A) fear and rejection 

B) pride and admiration 

C) anger and respect 

D) envy and compassion 

The first clue that all is not well with Algernon is

A) Algernon gets lost in the lab

B) Algernon bites Charlie

C) Algernon fails to finish the maze race

D) Algernon becomes more irritable

The first sign of Charlie's mental regression is

A) poor spelling and grammar

B) tiredness

C) lack of motivation

D) absent-mindedness (he starts to forget things)

In the story, who is Mrs. Flynn?

A) Charlie's landlady 

B) Charlie's aunt 

C) Miss Kinnian's sister 

D) Charlie's grandmother 

When Mrs. Flynn calls a doctor to see Charlie, Charlie tells him

A) he feels aspirin will be enough to cure him

B) he has no friends or relatives

C) he is not going to give up

D) to help Algernon get better

Charlie reacts to the doctor's treatment of him

A) positively; he tells him thank you for coming to help him at such short notice

B) negatively; he chases him out for making fun of him

C) positively; he regrets that he thought to be mean to him

D) negatively; he feels the doctor has a strange voice

When Miss Kinnian comes to see Charlie after his intelligence begins to fade away, he

A) opens the door and hugs her

B) tells her to go away

C) opens the door and begins to cry

D) tells her to go away, but runs after her

In order to earn some money to pay for his rent, Charlie returns to his old job at the factory. When he goes back to work, he tells himself

A) that he is good at his job, despite what anyone else says

B) that he will make Miss Kinnian proud

C) that he doesn't have to stay at this job forever

D) not to pay attention if the men make fun of him again

Why do Charlie's fellow co-workers want Charlie fired?

A) They think he is evil

B) They think he is damaging the factory

C) They have become frightened by his bad temper

D) They become weary of Charlie and don't understand how he has become so smart

What does the Algernon-Gordon effect state?

A) It is possible to gain intelligence through an operation and have the results be permanent 

B) Animals are capable of having greater intelligence levels than humans 

C) Intelligence that is gained from surgery will come and go throughout a person's lifetime 

D) Intelligence that is gained from surgery is only temporary 

A significant conversation happened between Fanny and Charlie. Which is the most accurate summary of their conversation?

A) Fanny is suspicious of Charlie's sudden gain in intelligence and is uncomfortable with those people who toy with the nature

B) Fanny was upset because Charlies was dating Miss Kinnian

C) Fanny is angry because he got a $10,000 bonus for fixing the machine she had run for years

What makes Charlie sad when he takes Miss Kinnian out for dinner for the first time?

A) Miss Kinnian tells Charlie that she doesn’t love him

B) Miss Kinnian thinks she was wrong to encourage him to have the operation

C) Charlie knows he will leave her behind intellectually

D) Charlie thinks that Miss Kinnian will refuse to have anything more to do with him

Charlie's coworkers know that he had the operation because he told them about it when he returned back to work after the operation took place.

True

False

As Charlie is preparing to leave New York in his final progress report, he writes that he feels proud because he

A) is the first "dumb person" to do something for science

B) never lost his temper with the doctors

C) was able to contain his emotions for so long

D) he didn't feel proud about anything, just ashamed

In his final progress report, Charlie says it's easy to make friends if

A) you're intelligent

B) you let people laugh at you

C) you're kind to others

D) you have a good personality

Explain the incident that occurred with the bus boy at the restaurant. How does this incident affect Charlie?

Discuss the subplot involving Algernon and Charlie. What is their relationship at before and after Charlie's operation? How does Algernon's death affect Charlie?

Pick one of the following characters: Dr. Nemur, Dr. Strauss, Joe Carp, or Miss Kinnian. Describe what Charlie's relationship with that character is like before his surgery and then describe what it is like after the surgery.