ELA Flowers for Algernon Study Cards

Question 1

Point of View

Answer 1

The narrator’s position in relation to a story being told.

Question 2

First person point of view

Answer 2

Uses the perspective of I/We

Question 3

Second person point of view

Answer 3

Uses the perspective of you. Like y/n

Question 4

Third person point of view

Answer 4

Uses the perspective of he/she/it/they

Question 5

Charlie at the end

Answer 5

• Charlie’s intelligence had gone away.
• He could not read anything that he wrote of his full report about the operation
• He eventually moved to a different city

Question 6

Sub-

Answer 6

under : beneath : below

Question 7

Suspicion

Answer 7

a feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true.

Question 8

Deterioration

Answer 8

the process of becoming progressively worse.

Question 9

Introspection

Answer 9

the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes.

Question 10

Direct object

Answer 10

a word or phrase that receives the action of the verb.

Question 11

Direct Object Example

Answer 11

In the sentence The students eat cake, the direct object is cake; the word eat is the verb and cake is what’s being eaten.

Question 12

Indirect object

Answer 12

the word or phrase that receives the direct object.

Question 13

Indirect Object Example

Answer 13

In the sentence The teacher gave the students cake, the indirect object is the students. The direct object is cake, and the students are the ones who eat it.

Question 14

Inkblot tests

Answer 14

This test was designed to look for patterns of thought disorder in schizophrenia and has evolved to include other areas, like personality, emotional disorders, and intelligence.

Question 15

Why Charlie was chosen

Answer 15

Charlie was chosen because he was highly desperate to learn. To make his brain function the way that he would have liked to. He was also recommended for the operation by his teacher.

Question 16

Changes at Charlie’s workplace during the study phase

Answer 16

When Charlie had become intelligent and went back to work, he finally understood that the people he thought were his friends, were actually a bunch of bullies. Charlie noticed now that they were making fun of him when he could not notice that when he was not smart.

Question 17

Charlies Return to his workshop

Answer 17

After Charlie had lost his intelligence, he went to work back at the factory again. Still, people were making fun of him. But, he had found two good friends that protected him.

Question 18

Drawing conclusions

Answer 18

The information that is implied or inferred. This means that the information is never clearly stated. Writers often tell you more than they say directly.

Question 19

The theme about Science: Science and Technology

Answer 19

“problems imagined as resulting from inventions, discoveries, or scientific hypotheses”—in this case, a surgical procedure that can turn a person of subnormal intelligence into a genius.

Question 20

Adam & Eve Allusion

Answer 20

Both Flowers for Algernon and the Garden of Eden are similar as they both thought biting from the tree of knowledge would bring them intelligence. At the beginning of the story of Flowers for Algernon, Charlie was blessed with happiness but always desired to be smart.