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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Charlie when a random woman offers to go home with him?

2. What does Nemur compare Charlie's curiosity about his future to?

3. Which of the following is NOT a name that Charlie hears his doctors calling each other during a fight?

4. What kind of a joke do Charlie's friends at the bakery play on him?

5. What is Fay's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Professor Nemur say at the conference in Chicago that upsets Charlie?

3. What did Charlie want to have happen as he ran away from the angry mob in the park after a woman came on to him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The theme of science is vitally important in this plot. Where does this theme appear, and how is the plot altered because of it?

Essay Topic 2

Fear is a common theme in this book that is presented a number of times in a number of forms by a number of characters. What are some of these instances, and how does fear affect the characters in the book? What are the differences in the forms fear took in this book?

Essay Topic 3

Dreams are a very important and symbolic part of this story-line. What are some of these dreams, and why are they so significant to the course of the plot?

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