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ELA Studies. Exam Review. Flowers for Algernon. Point of View. The story is told in first person from Charlie Gordon’ point of view. How is the story told?. The story is told in the form of progress reports written by Charlie. What is an inference?.
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ELA Studies Exam Review
Point of View • The story is told in first person from Charlie Gordon’ point of view.
How is the story told? • The story is told in the form of progress reports written by Charlie.
What is an inference? • When you make inferences, you look at the information the author provides to make logical assumptions about what the author leaves unstated. To make inferences, use details that the author provides as clues. • An inference can also be called an educated guess.
Who is Charlie Gordon? • Charlie is a 37-year-old man of below average intelligence who is selected for an experiment which will triple his intelligence if it works. • Charlie is very motivated and really wants to learn to read and write well. • Charlie works as a janitor at a factory. • His coworkers laugh at him.
Who is Algernon? • Algernon is the mouse that the doctors have experimented on first. • Charlie really wants to beat Algernon at the maze.
Who is Miss Kinnian? • She is Charlie’s teacher at the night school where Charlie has gone to learn how to read and write better. She recommends him for the experiment because he is cooperative and motivated.
Who are Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss? • Dr Nemur is the psychologist who is conducting the experiment, and Dr. Strauss is the neurosurgeon who performs the surgery on Charlie.
How does Charlie change after the operation? • He eventually becomes very intelligent. He has trouble communicating simply so that others can understand him.
How do Charlie’s coworkers react to him after the operation? • They want him to be fired.
What finally happens to Algernon? • His behavior changes, he loses his intelligence, and he dies.
What do the changes in Algernon mean for Charlie? • He will also lose his intelligence.
How do the progress reports written from the first person point of view allow you to see the changes in Charlie? • You can see how he changes through his spelling, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
What is a Rohrschach test? How does Charlie perform on the first one he takes? • It is a test where psychologists analyze someone based on what they see in a series of inkblots. Because Charlie is very literal, he cannot “see” anything in the inkblots or pretend that he does.
Nothing But the Truth Review
Describe Philip Malloy. • He is very bright, but he is lazy in school. He likes to make funny remarks in class. His main interest is running and being on the track team.
Why isn’t Philip doing well in Miss Narwin’s class? • He doesn’t do his work and he makes smart remarks in class to annoy her.
How does Miss Narwin feel about Philip? • She thinks that he is very bright but unmotivated. She doesn’t want him to be suspended.
Why is Philip suspended? • He is humming “The Star-Spangled Banner” in Miss Narwin’s homeroom and won’t stop when she asks him to.
Why can’t Philip try out for the track team? • He has a low grade in Miss Narwin’s class.
How does the story of Philip’s suspension get into the news? • His father talks to a neighbor who has a reporter at his home doing an interview for the school board elections.
How do the upcoming elections and school politics play a part in Philip’s case? • School officials don’t want any bad publicity for the schools because they want the budget vote to pass in order to avoid layoffs.
How does Ted Griffen use Philip’s story in his campaign for the school board? • He capitalizes on the publicity to draw attention to himself.
What kind of teacher is Miss Narwin? How do you know? • She is an excellent teacher who cares about her students. Her students do well on national tests, her principal thinks she is one of the best teachers at the school, and she wants her students to do well. All of the other students like her and think what Philip did was wrong.
How is Miss Narwin portrayed by the national media? • She is portrayed as un-American and as a bad teacher.
What happens at the end of the story? • The budget referendum is defeated, Miss Narwin resigns, and Philip transfers to a private school.
What is ironic about the title of the book? • Very few of the characters tell the truth. There is a great deal of evasion, rumor, and misinformation.
From what point of view is the story told? • It is told in first person from the point of view of several different characters. This makes it harder to tell who is telling the truth.
List at least three of the types of writing used to tell the story. • Memos, newspaper stories, letters, dialogue, diary entries
The Giver Test Review
Why is Jonas apprehensive at the beginning of the novel? • He is apprehensive about the Ceremony of Twelve.
What is the term for a community like the one in which Jonas lives? • Utopia
Name three things which exist in our world which did not exist in Jonas’s world. • Animals, weather, hunger, war, color
What does release mean in Jonas’s community? • It means death.
For what job is Jonas selected? • Receiver of memory
Why is Jonas chosen for this job? • He has the ability to see beyond. (he can see color.)
Why has the community chosen to have one person hold all of their memories? • So only one person would have to bear the pain of the memories and everyone else would be blissfully ignorant
How does Jonas react to the painful memories? • He wants to leave the community
Why does Jonas take Gabriel with him when he decides to leave the community? • Gabe was going to be released the next day.
