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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. What is taken away as a result of the World Series rebellions?
(a) Card privileges
(b) Day passes
(c) Excursions
(d) Cigarettes

2. The majority of the men on the ward are not ________ cases.
(a) Committed
(b) Dangerous
(c) Serious
(d) Easy

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

4. What does McMurphy compare the group meeting to?
(a) His last hospital stay
(b) Torture
(c) A pecking party
(d) A boring class

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the novel begin?

2. Where does the staff want to send McMurphy?

3. Who gets up at the end of the Group Meeting, after being quiet the entire time?

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

5. Where did McMurphy come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the most surprising thing that McMurphy learns as they are waiting to be tested for TB?

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

3. After Nurse Ratched tells the men about their punishment (as described in the answer to #28), what does McMurphy declare out loud?

4. When Nurse Ratched tells McMurphy that he can not wear a towel when walking around in the ward, what does McMurphy do?

5. How could Billy Bibbit be described?

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

7. What causes Nurse Ratched to fly into a rage at the start of the novel?

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

9. What does McMurphy see as his ticket out of the mental ward?

10. Why doesn't Nurse Ratched want McMurphy sent to the Disturbed ward?

(see the answer keys)

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