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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two categories of patients at the Warren State Home and Training School?
(a) Pleasant and Unpleasant.
(b) Tidy and Untidy.
(c) Lucid and Unconscious.
(d) Active and Inactive.

2. What does Charlie say he does not want to have happen to Algernon when he is shown around the lab?
(a) Put down.
(b) Denied food for lack of performance.
(c) Incinerated.
(d) Shocked.

3. What does Charlie want to do before he begins his research?
(a) Find his sister.
(b) Make love to a woman.
(c) See his parents.
(d) Apologize to Alice.

4. How does Alice feel when she goes home after talking with Charlie when his IQ has surpassed her own?
(a) That it is unnatural.
(b) That she pushed him too hard.
(c) That he is being tortured.
(d) Like she is getting dumber.

5. What is Charlie's father's occupation when he finds him after moving into his own apartment?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Salesman.
(c) Barber.
(d) Mechanic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Charlie's friends from the bakery make him do with Ellen at a party?

2. What is Fay's occupation?

3. Who denies Charlie's sister the promised reward for the A on her History test?

4. How many people are housed at the Warren State Home and Training School?

5. What does Charlie do when Nemur asks him to speak to the audience at the conference for the International Psychological Association?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Charlie so understanding about the hostile attitude that his friends at the bakery have towards him as his intelligence is raised?

2. What happens when Charlie goes to see his father in the barbershop?

3. What causes Charlie to believe that everything he has been taught might be false?

4. What flash-back memory does Charlie have on his plane ride to Chicago?

5. What happens to Charlie the night after he dances with Ellen at the party?

6. What mistake does Charlie realize Nemur has made during the conference in Chicago?

7. What does Charlie say that intelligence without affection will lead to when he is at the cocktail party with Nemur?

8. What prank do the guys at the bakery try to play on Charlie on April Fool's Day?

9. Why did Norma's father refuse to let her have the dog she was promised if she did well on her history test?

10. What happens in his apartment that shows Charlie that Algernon needs to be taken back to the lab?

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