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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 are the men waiting around to do one Friday in the lab?
(a) Break the windows
(b) Get blood drawn
(c) Take their medications
(d) Get tested for TB

2. What does McMurphy do that flusters Nurse Ratched?
(a) Flirts with her
(b) Hits her
(c) Screams at her
(d) Walks around in a towel

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

4. Who is the one person who votes with McMurphy in favor of the World Series?
(a) Billy
(b) Chief
(c) Harding
(d) Cheswick

5. What does McMurphy do to get the attention of everyone?
(a) He screams
(b) He sings
(c) He punches he hand through the glass window
(d) He strips

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name the patients have for EST?

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

3. Does the extra vote in #44 help McMurphy win a chance to see the World Series?

4. How many people vote for the World Series on the second vote?

5. What does Harding ask McMurphy after Harding's wife leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is described as being alert and chipper, unlike other new admissions?

2. When McMurphy tries to get the men to agree to watch the World Series, the second vote yields more votes than the first, but why isn't it valid, according to Nurse Ratched?

3. How will the men be punished for the rebellious behavior they exhibited during the World Series?

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

5. What do the patients do when Nurse Ratched tells them to get away from the TV?

6. Which patients are the ones whose brains have been altered beyond repair from shock therapy and tranquilizers?

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

8. Which patients are the ones who have the highest likelihood of being cured?

9. Who is the narrator of the story?

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

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