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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is completely silent during the meeting of the staff, at least at the beginning?
(a) Nurse Ramsey
(b) Doctor Spivey
(c) Nurse Ratched
(d) George

2. When do the lights go out on the ward?
(a) 7:00 p.m.
(b) 9:30 p.m.
(c) 7:30 p.m.
(d) 10:00 p.m.

3. What is the Chief constantly afraid will swallow him and the others up?
(a) The Combine
(b) The EST
(c) The doctor
(d) The floors

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

5. Who does Chief Bromden think is speeding up time and then slowing it down?
(a) Harding
(b) Nurse Ratched
(c) The black boys
(d) McMurphy

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the overall winner of the card game?

2. What does Nurse Ratched suggest has happened to McMurphy as he is singing in the hallway?

3. Who explodes irrationally at Harding?

4. Who says the men are not brave men like McMurphy is?

5. What does Nurse Ratched reprimand McMurphy for not letting the aides do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nurse Ratched tell the young black men to do before breakfast?

2. What changes McMurphy's mind about the way he has been acting on the ward?

3. What is the cleaning crew of the mental hospital called?

4. While the men understand McMurphy's change in behavior, what tragic event occurs that makes the ward go back to its normal routine?

5. What is so special about Harding in relation to the rest of the patients on the ward?

6. What does Harding's wife do when she comes to visit?

7. What has McMurphy's rebellious spirit caused the men of the ward to begin to do?

8. What action does McMurphy take as a result of #29?

9. How could the patients of the ward be described?

10. How does Chief describe the days in the ward?

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