Flowers for Algernon

From what point of view is "Flowers for Algernon" told?

• first person, Charlie's point of view

• first person, Charlie's doctors' point of view

• third person, telling the thoughts of many characters

• third person, telling the thoughts of just Charlie and Miss Kinnian

What form does the story "Flowers for Algernon" take?

• progress reports by Charlie

• medical reports by Charlie's doctors

• diary entries by Miss Kinnian

• job reports by Charlie's boss

What inference about Charlie can you draw from the first section of "Flowers for Algernon"?

• He has below-average intelligence

• He sees and hears things that are not there

• He cannot control his temper

• He cannot hold down a job and support himself

Choose the inference a reader can most accurately draw from this passage:

"They called the mouse Algernon. Algernon was in a box with a lot of twists and turns like all kinds of walls and they gave me a pencil and a paper with lines and lots of boxes. On one side it said START and on the other side it said FINISH. They said it was amazed and that Algernon and me had the same amazed to do. I dint see how we could have the same amazed if Algernon had a box and I had a paper but I dint say nothing.

• Algernon can read

• Algernon is running a maze

• Charlie finds Algernon amazing

• The doctors find Charlie amazing

What happens during Charlie's first inkblot test?

• He sees many interesting pictures in the inkblot

• He shows he has a violent temper

• He loses to Algernon

• He fails to see anything in the inkblot

Why do the doctors use Charlie in their experiment?

• He is the only person willing to participate

• They know he needs a better job, which he can get if his skills improve

• They feel he is motivated to try to learn

• They see that he has bonded with Algernon

Charlie feels happy and excited when he hears he will have the operation. How does the point of view of the story affect the way you learn about his feelings?

• The story is told by a narrator outside the story who explains Charlie's feelings

• The story is told by Charlie, so you hear about his feelings directly from him

• The story is told by Dr. Nemur, so you learn what the tests show about Charlie's feelings

• The story is told in the form of a diary, so you must make inferences about how Charlie feels

Why do Charlie's fellow workers want him fired?

• They become frightened by Charlie and suspicious of his new intelligence

• They resent Charlie for damaging the factory and making their jobs harder

• They become jealous of Charlie's good fortune

• They think he is lying and stealing

What is one aspect of the text that shows Charlie is returning to his old condition

• He learns German

• He asks Mis Kinnian to dinner

• He starts to spell badly again

• He says he hates Algernon

What view of science is most clearly suggested by Charlie's story?

• Science always improves the world

• Science inevitably ruins the environment

• Science may do unexpected harm

• Science wastes money