Flowers for Algernon Assessment

What happens during Charlie's first inkblot test?

• He sees many pictures in the inkblot.

• He cannot see any pictures in the inkblot.

• He shows he has an extremely violent temper.

• He performs badly compared to Algernon.

Why do the doctors use Charlie in their experiment?

• They see that he has bonded with Algernon.

• They believe that he is motivated to try to learn.

• They know that he can get a better job.

• He is the only person willing to participate.

Why do Charlie's fellow workers want him fired?

• jealousy

• Charlie's begun lying and stealing

• resentment

• frightened and distrustful of his new intelligence

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

• He learns German

• He says he hates Algernon

• He starts to spell badly again

• He asks Miss Kinnian to dinner

Which phrase best describes Charlie at the end of "Flowers for Algernon"?

• sad but hopeful

• relieved but bitter

• angry and threatening

• proud and conceited

What conclusion about Charlie is most clearly supported by this excerpt from the first section? "I hope they use me. Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Charlie Gordon. I am 37 years old and 2 weeks ago was my birthday. I have nuthing more to rite now so I will close for today.

• He cannot control his temper.

• He has below-average intelligence.

• He sees and hears things that are not there.

• He cannot hold down a job and support himself.

Choose the conclusion a reader can most accurately draw from this excerpt: "They called the mouse Algernon. Algernon was in a box with lots 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.

• The doctors find Charlie amazing.

• Charlie finds Algernon amazing.

• Algernon is running in a maze.

• Algernon is able to read.

What is the main reason that Charlie wants to increase his intelligence?

• He is competitive and wants to beat Algernon.

• He wants to be more like other people.

• He wants to please Miss Kinnian.

• He is lonely with no social life.

Which quotation best supports the main reason that Charlie wants to increase his intelligence?

• "Anyway that test made me feel worser than the others because they did it over 10 times with difernt amazeds and Algernon won every time. I dint know that mice were so smart."

• "I don't understand why I never noticed how beautiful Miss Kinnian really is... I think from the beginning I had the feeling that she was an unreachable genius--and very, very old."

• "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."

• "I see that even in my dullness I knew that I was inferior, and that other people had something I lacked--something denied me... Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."

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

• first person naive, from Charlie's point of view

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

• third person omniscient, telling the thoughts of many characters

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