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

2. Where does Charlie spend most of his time once he reaches the peak of his intellectual abilities?
(a) Outside in nature.
(b) At the college.
(c) In the lab.
(d) With Alice.

3. When does Charlie first realize that women's bodies are different than men's?
(a) When he is shown a dirty magazine.
(b) When he sees his mother changing.
(c) When he sees an old woman being bathed.
(d) When he sees Norma in the shower.

4. What does Charlie realize about his childhood while he is at the party with Ellen?
(a) Kids would play tricks on him when they played hide and seek.
(b) Kids were cruel to him when they tripped him at recess.
(c) Kids would make fun of the way he talked when he thought they were his friends.
(d) Kids would steal his lunch and laugh at him.

5. What does Charlie build for Algernon in his own furnished apartment?
(a) A maze.
(b) A running wheel.
(c) A cage.
(d) A house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Charlie to start a fight with Nemur at the cocktail party thrown by Mrs. Nemur?

2. What does Charlie think of his sister when she is first brought home from the hospital?

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

4. Why does Charlie have a hard time focusing on the movies when he takes Ms. Kinnian out to them?

5. What is Charlie's father's occupation when he finds him after moving into his own apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What area of expertise does Charlie showcase before the conference in Chicago begins?

2. How does Fanny think Charlie came about his intelligence?

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

4. Why is Charlie fired from his job at the bakery?

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

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

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

8. What realization does Charlie make while reading The Great Gatsby?

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

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

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