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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. How does Professor Nemur respond to Charlie's return to the lab after his time in his own apartment?
(a) He is angry, but satisfied.
(b) He is jealous.
(c) His is immensely relieved.
(d) He is cold and severe.

2. What does Charlie catch Gimpy doing at the bakery?
(a) Stealing money.
(b) Overcharging the customers.
(c) Making smaller loafs.
(d) Taking home old bread.

3. What surprises the would-be pranksters at the bakery?
(a) Charlie checks with his boss before believing the wrong schedule.
(b) Charlie makes people very happy by giving them free bread, and they start shopping at the bakery.
(c) Charlie is well-liked at the bar.
(d) Charlie uses the dough mixer perfectly.

4. After talking with some college students when his IQ has reached 100, what does Charlie think that college is?
(a) The place where you can be free to be yourself.
(b) The place where all former beliefs are challenged.
(c) The place to learn how to really live.
(d) The place where dreams come true.

5. 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 he is being tortured.
(c) Like she is getting dumber.
(d) That she pushed him too hard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Charlie's sister once almost get as a reward for an A on a test?

3. What does Charlie do to calm himself when he wakes up after his nightmare about Alice on the night after he tellls her he likes her?

4. Where did Norma think his brother was before she was contacted about the surgery?

5. Why is Charlie's sister denied the promised reward for her A on the history test?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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