Flowers for Algernon Study Guide
Complete the following study guide based on the fiction story Flowers for Algernon. Use your summary packet, Seventeen magazine article, before and after worksheet, vocabulary worksheet, point of view worksheet, and relationship chart to help you!
1. Flowers for Algernon is written from ________________ point of view.
a. first person b. third person objective c. second person
How do you know? _____________________________________________________
2. Why does Charlie have an operation?
a. To make him better looking b. To be smarter c. He is bored
3. Knowing what happens to Algernon, you can infer that
a. Algernon is very special.
b. Charlie will have a different outcome because he is human.
c. the same thing will happen to Charlie.
4. What is the difference between “superior” and “inferior”? __________________________________________________________________
5. The word “regression” means
a. intelligent b. moving backwards b. moving forwards
6. Why did we do the Simulation Stations in class? (Stations that mirrored disabilities)
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Julia Bluhm writes to Seventeen magazine because
a. they are ruining her life.
b. she dislikes the magazine.
c. to stop them from using Photoshop.
8. Second person point of view is rare because (use your POV notes to answer this) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________.
9. What does the root word “super” mean? ____________________________________
10. Summarize The Birthmark play we read in class (if you’d like a copy of this let me know!)
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
11. Joe Carp and Frank Reilly are
a. Charlie’s work friends b. the scientists c. Charlie’s teachers
12. Flowers for Algernon is written in the format of a
a. poem b. textbook c. journal
13. What is the difference between Charlie and Miss Kinnian’s relationship in the beginning, middle, and end of Flowers for
Algernon?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Charlie’s problem is that he
a. has an intellectual disability b. is deaf c. is an amputee
15. Are Charlie’s friends good friends? Defend your answer.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
16. What characters work with Charlie to help him become smarter?
a. Charlie’s bakery friends and Miss Kinnian
b. Algernon, Dr. Nemur, Dr. Strauss
c. Dr. Nemur, Dr. Strauss, Miss Kinnian
17. We know Charlie is regressing because
a. his spelling and punctuation b. Miss Kinnian says so c. he no longer goes to work
18. Where does the title “Flowers for Algernon” come from? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Complete the following study guide based on the fiction story Flowers for Algernon. Use your summary packet, Seventeen magazine article, before and after worksheet, vocabulary worksheet, point of view worksheet, and relationship chart to help you!
1. Flowers for Algernon is written from ________________ point of view.
a. first person b. third person objective c. second person
How do you know? _____________________________________________________
2. Why does Charlie have an operation?
a. To make him better looking b. To be smarter c. He is bored
3. Knowing what happens to Algernon, you can infer that
a. Algernon is very special.
b. Charlie will have a different outcome because he is human.
c. the same thing will happen to Charlie.
4. What is the difference between “superior” and “inferior”? __________________________________________________________________
5. The word “regression” means
a. intelligent b. moving backwards b. moving forwards
6. Why did we do the Simulation Stations in class? (Stations that mirrored disabilities)
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Julia Bluhm writes to Seventeen magazine because
a. they are ruining her life.
b. she dislikes the magazine.
c. to stop them from using Photoshop.
8. Second person point of view is rare because (use your POV notes to answer this) ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________.
9. What does the root word “super” mean? ____________________________________
10. Summarize The Birthmark play we read in class (if you’d like a copy of this let me know!)
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
11. Joe Carp and Frank Reilly are
a. Charlie’s work friends b. the scientists c. Charlie’s teachers
12. Flowers for Algernon is written in the format of a
a. poem b. textbook c. journal
13. What is the difference between Charlie and Miss Kinnian’s relationship in the beginning, middle, and end of Flowers for
Algernon?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Charlie’s problem is that he
a. has an intellectual disability b. is deaf c. is an amputee
15. Are Charlie’s friends good friends? Defend your answer.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
16. What characters work with Charlie to help him become smarter?
a. Charlie’s bakery friends and Miss Kinnian
b. Algernon, Dr. Nemur, Dr. Strauss
c. Dr. Nemur, Dr. Strauss, Miss Kinnian
17. We know Charlie is regressing because
a. his spelling and punctuation b. Miss Kinnian says so c. he no longer goes to work
18. Where does the title “Flowers for Algernon” come from? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________