One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 105 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has the lifeguard been at the hospital?
(a) 3 days
(b) A decade
(c) 8 years and 8 months
(d) A month

2. What makes McMurphy question his actions?
(a) Being comitted for life
(b) Harding
(c) A note from his mother
(d) His conscience

3. What does Nurse Ratched suggest has happened to McMurphy as he is singing in the hallway?
(a) He is just being a pain
(b) He has been dared by the other men
(c) His clothes have been stolen
(d) He is crazy

4. What is McMurphy doing when Nurse Ratched comes in the morning?
(a) Reading a book
(b) Singing loudly
(c) Trying to escape
(d) Sleeping

5. Who are those whose brains have been altered beyond repair?
(a) Toasteds
(b) Acutes
(c) Chronics
(d) New Admissions

6. Who are the black boys?
(a) The afternoon entertainment
(b) Patients
(c) Doctors
(d) The morning cleaning crew

7. Why does Nurse Ratched do what she does in #56?
(a) She is biding her time
(b) She needs to get away
(c) She is actually quite weak
(d) She wants to make an example of the men

8. What is EST, according to Harding?
(a) Eastern Standard Time
(b) The Disturbed ward
(c) Electro Shock Therapy
(d) A new medication

9. What does McMurphy bet he can do in #24?
(a) Ruffle the feathers of Nurse Ratched
(b) Escape
(c) Get the men drunk
(d) Get released

10. Who is the new Admission?
(a) Cheswick
(b) Billy Bibbit
(c) Harding
(d) McMurphy

11. What does Nurse Ratched give to Chief Bromden to calm him?
(a) Milk
(b) Alcohol
(c) Nothing
(d) Tranquilizers

12. What is the diagnosis that the staff come to that they will put McMurphy into the Disturbed ward for?
(a) Negative Oedipal
(b) Psychopath
(c) Sociopath with depressive tendencies
(d) Schizophrenic reaction

13. Who are those who still have hope of being cured in the mental hospital?
(a) Acutes
(b) Disturbed
(c) Chronics
(d) No one

14. The day room is divided into how many sides?
(a) Four
(b) One
(c) Three
(d) Two

15. Who is always the first patient out of bed?
(a) Chief Bromden
(b) Billy Bibbit
(c) Harding
(d) George

Short Answer Questions

1. What does McMurphy do as a result of the swimming trip?

2. Who explodes irrationally at Harding?

3. What is the Chief constantly afraid will swallow him and the others up?

4. What does McMurphy do when the World Series is on the next day?

5. Who said that he would never make his mark as the head man of the crappers?

(see the answer keys)

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