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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. Who has paid for his life of comfort should Charlie regress to where he was before the procedure?
(a) Mr. Donner.
(b) The Welburg Foundation.
(c) Professor Nemur.
(d) The Beekman College.

2. Why is Charlie's sister denied the promised reward for her A on the history test?
(a) She fails a spelling test on the same day.
(b) She is caught cheating.
(c) She will not share the prize.
(d) She is too haughty about her success.

3. Why is Charlie not allowed to fix the errors in his earlier entries in the Progress Report?
(a) They don't want it to upset him.
(b) They want to see his progress.
(c) It would disrupt the process.
(d) They need a record of the past.

4. How does Fanny Biden think Charlie has become so smart all of the sudden?
(a) He was only pretending to be retarded before.
(b) He made a deal with the devil.
(c) He prayed really hard.
(d) He took some drugs.

5. What does Charlie see when he begins to put his arm around Alice at the concert in the park?
(a) His mother coming at him with a knife.
(b) An angry boy in the bushes watching him.
(c) His sister's face.
(d) A police officer staring at him with malice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a word which Charlie uses to describe a stage of his relationship with Alice?

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

3. What does Fay do while Charlie is away at the peak of his intellectual abilities?

4. Who observes Algernon in his old maze when Charlie returns him to the lab?

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

2. What is Professor Nemur most upset about when Charlie returns to the lab after living in his own apartment?

3. Why is Alice so hesitant to be in a relationship with Charlie even though she cares for him?

4. Why did Charlie allow himself to soil himself when he was younger?

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

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

7. What does one of Charlie's old classmates at Beekman say to Charlie when he tries to talk to her?

8. What does Charlie say about the failure of this experiment done on him?

9. What happens when Algernon is put back into his original maze when he and Charlie return to the lab?

10. Why is Charlie unable to be physically intimate with Alice?

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