Flowers for Algernon
Crossword Puzzle

Across

1. Self-contradictory
4. Turn away
5. The Period in between Two Events
7. Insult
8. Evil and Immoral
11. Too Fancy
12. Trigger
13. Tame and Obedient

Down

1. Conceited
2. Empty; Without Feeling
3. Only Friends
6. Stranded; All Alone
9. A Nice Way of Saying Something Difficult
10. Lively and Full of Energy

Choose your answers from among the following vocabulary items:

pompous
stimulus
affront
paradoxical
docile
vacuous
baroque
marooned
avert
animated
platonic
interim
depraved
euphemism

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An exercise to go with,
Teaching the Short Story, "Flowers for Algernon," to College-Level ESL Students
by Loretta Kasper