Characters
What is the full name of our main character?
Charlie Gordon
What activity would Charlie and Algernon do together?
Run mazes
“I shud rite down what I think and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.”
Charlie
What is the name of the main doctor in the movie?
Dr. Strauss
What box does Charlie bury Algernon in?
Cheese box
How does Charlie know Ms. Kinnian?
She is his teacher at the adult school.
Miss Kinnian referred him to the doctors.
“You’ve got to be patient. You’re accomplishing in days and weeks what it takes normal people to do in half a lifetime“
Ms. Kinnian
Where did Charlie work?
Bakery
What form is the story written in?
Diary entries / Progress Reports
Why did the doctors choose Charlie for their experiment?
Charlie is motivated to do well.
What was the first sign of Algernon and Charlie’s mental deterioration?
Loss of memory
”Nevermind Charles. I just hope I wasn’t wrong to advise you to go into this in the first place”
Ms. Kinnian
How does the movie begin?
Students from Ms. Kinnian’s class at the adult school are being interviewed for the experiment.
Free Points
Free Points
After Charlie becomes a genius, how does his personality change?
He begins to isolate himself from others because he is unable to have a normal conversation with people. He wants to talk about abstract things that many people don’t understand, and his co workers are scared of his new intelligence.
Why does Charlie move away at the end of the story?
He does not want people to feel sorry for him anymore.
“[You’re] giving Dr. Nemur an inferiority complex“
Dr. Strauss
What happens at the conference Charlie speaks at?
Charlie told the audience that the experiment failed, and he released the rats into the audience.
In the book, what kind of company did Charlie work for?
Donnegans Plastic Box Company
Why does Dr. Strauss not like Dr. Nemur?
Dr. Nemur is more focused on becoming famous and praised for his experiments rather than helping people or Charlie.
After Charlie regresses into his old self and returns to his old job, how to Frank and Joe treat him?
“show the girls how [you] mop out the toilet”
Give an example of a scene from the movie that was not from our reading
Charlie speaking at the conference, The character of Mr. Burt, Ms. Kinnian
What is the name of the mouse who undergoes the experiment in the story?
Algernon