Flowers for Algernon Characters

Choose the conclusion a reader can most accurately draw from this excerpt from "Flowers for Algernon". They call the mouse Algernon. Algernon was in a box with a lot of twist 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.

Which of the following quotes from "Flowers for Algernon" best supports the answer to Part A?

• Anyway that test made me feel worser than all 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 person had something I lacked---something denied me. Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.

In "Flowers for Algernon", Charlie feels happy and excited when he hears that he will have the operation. How does the point of view of the story affect the way readers learn about his feelings?

• The story is told by Charlie, but readers must guess how Charlie feels.

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

• The story is told by a narrator, so readers get an outsider's explanation of Charlie's feelings.

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

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

• first person, from Charlie's point of view

• first person, from 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

Who is the speaker in Flowers For Algernon?

• Charlie

• Daniel Keyes

• Dr. Strauss

• Miss Kinnian

Why did Miss Kinnian recommend Charlie for the experimental operation?

• She didn't like Charlie

• She thought he was a good candidate for the operation

• He was the dumbest in her class

• She didn't recommend him, Algernon did

How does Charlie see Miss Kinnian now? (after the surgery)

• He thinks she's weird

• He thinks she is too dumb for him

• She is just his teacher

• He is in love with her

Why does Charlie put flowers on Algernon's grave?

• Just to be nice

• Algernon was special to him

• It was his job

• This never happened

What event foreshadows what will happen to Charlie?

• When Algernon's behavior changes

• when he falls in love with Miss Kinnian

• when the doctors argue

• when the boy drops the dishes

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

• He was fired from his job. 

• He figured out what it means to "pull a Charlie Gordon." 

• The doctors gave him bad news. 

• Algernon beat him in another race.