Flowers for Algernon Test Review

What is the inciting incident in the story?

• Charlie is chosen to undergo the experimental operation to improve his intelligence

• Charlie begins to document his progress in reports

• Charlie wakes up from the operation

• Charlie begins to race Algernon in the mazes

The climax of the story occurs when...

• Charlies notices signs of his own regression

• Charlie discovers that his friends at work aren't really his friends at all

• Algernon dies

• Charlie realizes that he is in love with Miss Kinnian

Fanny Girden references a story from the bible that deals with gaining knowledge that is not meant to be had by man. That story is…

• Adam and Eve

• David and Goliath

• Jesus and Judas

• The Good Samaritan

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.9

The term for when the reader knows something that is happening in the story but the character does not.

• Thematic Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Semantic Irony

Algernon biting Charlie, regressing, and eventually dying are all uses of what literary device?

• Alliteration

• Foreshadowing

• Assonance

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What do Charlie's "friends" mean when they say someone "really pulled a Charlie Gordon"?

• they did a cool trick
• they did something kind
• they did something smart
• they did something dumb

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

What is the relationship between Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss like? 

• They get along well. 
• They fight all the time. 
• They don't ever talk to one another. 
• How would I know? 

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

What point of view is this story told from? 

• Third person
• First person
• Second person
• No person

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

What does Charlie claim are his "best friends" when his intelligence is at his highest? 

• food and the couch
• television and the radio
• books and music
• his diary and Miss Kinnian

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.9A

What does Charlie discover when he conducts his research?

• The operation is permanent. 
• He will lose his intelligence at the same rate he gained it. 
• He will gain intelligence at an intense rate of time. 
• He will die. 

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1