Flowers For Algernon

Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

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Reading Check

1. What makes Charlie a good candidate for the experiment?

2. What is the experiment meant to accomplish?

3. Who is Algernon?

4. Where does Charlie work?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What are the Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests, and how do they correlate to Charlie’s intelligence?

2. What is Charlie’s true relationship with Joe and Frank, and in what ways is this demonstrated in relation to The Dignity of All Humans?

3. How does the reader understand that Charlie is becoming more intelligent during the days after the surgery?

4. How do the memories that Charlie begins to experience about his family relate to the theme The Psychological Impact of the Past?

Paired Resource

“Multiple Intelligence Quiz”

• This online quiz will allow students to identify their personal intellectual strengths.
• This connects to the theme Acquiring Intelligence Versus Developing Emotions as students compare their different kinds of intelligences, such as verbal, naturalistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc.
• What intelligence(s) does Charlie portray prior to and after the surgery? In what ways is this demonstrated?