Flowers for Algernon - Final Unit Test, 2017

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77 questions

Flowers for Algernon - Final Unit Test, 2017

Last updated almost 3 years ago

77 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

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

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

What is Charlie's IQ before the operation?

A) 70

B) 68

C) 65

D) 72

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 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

In the story, Burt helps administer, or give, the tests to Charlie. 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) feels like he’s just an experiment to the two doctors

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 event foreshadows what will 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

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 be 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

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

As he regresses mentally, Charlie thinks more and more of

A) Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur

B) Miss Kinnian

C) His parents

D) His co-workers

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

Mrs. Flynn calls a doctor to come see Charlie because she becomes worried about him. 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

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

In the story, who is Algernon?

A) One of the scientists who gives Charlie a test to see if he is a good candidate for the operation

B) A mouse who has had the same operation that Charlie will undergo

C) Charlie's boss at the factory he works at

D) Another student in Miss Kinnian's night school class

In the story, how did the party at Muggsy's end?

A) Joe and Frank made fun of Charlie and then left him

B) Miss Kinnian showed up and drove Charlie back home

C) Charlie told everyone about his operation, even though he wasn't supposed to

D) Charlie impressed everyone with his newly-gained knowledge

Why does Charlie say he feels "sick inside...inside my chest it feels empty?"

A) He was fired from his job at the factory

B) He figured out what it meant to "Pull a Charlie Gordon"

C) The doctors gave him bad news regarding Algernon

D) Algernon beat Charlie in another maze race

Why did Charlie get a raise at the factory he works at?

A) He was on time to work each day for an entire year

B) The boss learned about his surgery

C) Everyone is afraid of him

D) Charlie figured out a new way to line up the machines at the factory

Toward the middle and end of the short story, what is the relationship between Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss like?

A) They get along well and are friendly to each other

B) The start fighting and bickering about publishing the results of the experiment

C) They are no longer working together anymore and have decided to complete the research on their own

D) None of the above are correct

How does Charlie feel about Miss Kinnian in the middle of the story - after his operation?

A) He thinks that she is a boring, old lady

B) He writes in his progress report that he is in love with her

C) He thinks of her only as his teacher

D) He says that he no longer cares about her at all

The short story is written in what type of point of view?

A) First person, from Charlie's point of view

B) First person, from Dr. Nemur's point of view

C) Third person, which includes the thoughts of all characters

D) Third person, telling the thoughts of both Charlie and Miss Kinnian

What writing format does the story use?

A) Medical reports completed by the doctors

B) Progress reports written by Charlie

C) Diary entries completed by Miss Kinnian

D) Job reports by Charlie's boss at the factory

From the choices below, which is NOT a positive character trait for Charlie?

A) eager to please

B) motivated

C) agreeable

D) apathetic

What can you infer from the details about Charlie at the start of "Flowers for Algernon?"

A) He has below-normal intelligence

B) He sees and hears things that are not really there

C) He cannot control his temper

D) He cannot hold down a job and support himself

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

A) They think that he has an evil-spirit

B) They are scared by his bad temper

C) They believe that he is damaging the factory

D) They are wary of Charlie because of his increasing intelligence

Which of the following can we infer is the reason that Dr. Strauss requires Charlie to keep a journal with his progress reports?

A) To monitor if Charlie was being dishonest about the amount of time he spent working in the lab

B) To monitor Charlie's progress by reading his words and thoughts

C) To closely watch his communication with people outside the hospital, including his mother and father

D) To secure Algernon's place in medical history

Choose the set of details below that show the results of Charlie's experiment are starting to take effect.

A) Charlie begins to challenge the doctors' knowledge, he says that he loves Miss Kinnian, and he begins to perform his own experiments

B) Charlie quits his job, he becomes more quiet, and he begins to play the piano and learn about painting

C) Charlie continues to lose to Algernon, he goes out with Joe and Frank, and he continues to "Pull a Charlie Gordon."

How does Charlie discover that the effects of his operation will not be long lasting?

A) He sees changes begin to happen in Algernon

B) He overhears the doctors talking about this subject

C) Miss Kinnian tells him

D) Burt tells him

What can you, as the reader, infer about Charlie's relationship with his co-workers before the experiment?

A) He believes that they are good friends and fails to realize that they tease him

B) He is deeply hurt by their teasing, but refuses to believe that they mean it in good fun

C) They are afraid of him and do not want to talk to him

D) They go out of their way to be kind to him

Which of the following does Charlie begin to recognize as he progresses mentally?

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

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

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

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

In the story, a significant conversation happened between Fanny and Charlie. Which of the following is the most accurate summary of their conversation?

A) Fanny is suspicious of Charlie's sudden gain in intelligence and the fact that he is toying with nature

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

C) Fanny is jealous that Charlie is dating Miss Kinnian

D) Charlie proposes that Dr. Nemur be released from his contract for bad scientific practices at the lab

What improves throughout the story in Charlie's progress reports?

A) the titles of the progress reports

B) he writes the progress reports slower

C) Charlie's grammar, punctuation, and spelling

D) his ability to write in shorter paragraphs

Which event in the story changes the relationship that Charlie and Algernon have?

A) Algernon beats Charlie in the maze

B) Dr. Nemur lets Charlie take Algernon home as a pet

C) Algernon gets put on a much more strict diet

D) Charlie finally beats Algernon in the maze

Charlie is taken home by ________________________ twice in the story.

A) Miss Kinnian

B) his friends Frank and Joe

C) his landlady

D) policemen

As we see Charlie's intelligence continue to increase after the operation, he finds comfort in

A) food and napping

B) television and listening to the radio

C) books

D) his diary and Miss Kinnian

During Charlie's conversation with Fanny, she makes a reference to which bible story?

A) Noah's flood

B) Adam and Eve

C) David vs. Goliath

D) the creation of the world

As Charlie continues to conduct his own research, he discovers

A) the results from the operation that he underwent is permanent

B) he will lose his intelligence at the same rate that he gained it

C) he will die

D) Algernon will live for an extended period of time, much longer than normal mice

Which of the following character traits does NOT describe Miss Kinnian, based on her actions in the story?

A) kind

B) loving

C) selfish

D) intelligent

In the story, we have two characters that are parallel - the things that happen to one character will, eventually, happen to the other. Which two characters are these?

A) Miss Kinnian and Charlie

B) Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss

C) Charlie and Algernon

D) Joe and Frank

What is the title of the novel that Charlie reads after the operation?

A) The Giver

B) Hatchet

C) Robinson Crusoe

D) The Tale of the Ancient Sailor

The event in the restaurant with the young busboy is so signficant to Charlie because

A) the young boy was a waiter just like Charlie

B) the young boy also worked at the factory with Charlie

C) Charlie had seen the boy be teased by other people before

D) the young boy reminded Charlie of himself before the operation

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

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

B) Charlie makes the decision to work in the field of increasing human intelligence

C) Charlie remembers how people would make fun of fun, similar to how they make fun of the young boy

D) Charlie begins to talk with other people about his own intelligence and how much it has really increased

Why does Charlie put flowers on Algernon's grave?

A) The doctors thought that it would be a nice gesture

B) Algernon was special to him

C) Miss Kinnian suggested that he do so

D None of the above are correct

In the story, Charlie said that his mind was deteriorating. What does that mean?

A) His mind was growing super fast

B) His mind was staying the same and not experiencing any changes

C) His mind was getting worse, declining in quality

D) None of the above are correct

In the story, both Charlie and Algernon's minds went through regression. What does that mean?

A) Their minds returned to their original states

B) They switched minds

C) Their minds grew super fast

D) Their minds did not experience any changes at all

What could be an inference you could make about Charlie's future based on what we read in the story?

A) Charlie will ultimately die because of the operation

B) Charlie will regain his sense of intelligence that he lost

C) Miss Kinnian and Charlie will get married

D) Charlie will go back and forth with his intelligence

At the beginning of the story, Joe and Frank make fun of Charlie, often times to his face. This is an example of which type of conflict?

A) Man vs. Man

B) Man vs. Society

C) Man vs. Self

D) Man vs. Nature

Which of the following episodes is repeated in the story to make parallel episodes?

A) Charlie undergoes an operation

B) Charlie has dinner with Miss Kinnian

C) The factory workers get Charlie drunk

D) The factory workers force Charlie to leave his work

The people at the factory sign a petition to get Charlie fired from his job. This situation is an example of what type of conflict?

A) Man vs. Man

B) Man vs. Society

C) Man vs. Self

D) Man vs. Nature