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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 does Nurse Ratched use to begin to take down McMurphy?
(a) A rumor
(b) A punishment
(c) Her feminine charm
(d) Negative group meeting sessions

2. Who kills McMurphy in the end, suffocating him with a pillow?
(a) Chief Bromden
(b) Scanlon
(c) Harding
(d) Mr. Sefert

3. Who comes up with the plan to try to keep the men from getting into trouble, but still allowing McMurphy to escape?
(a) Mr. Sefert
(b) Billy
(c) Chief Bromden
(d) Harding

4. Who cuts his throat with a tool he found in the doctor's office?
(a) Scanlon
(b) Billy Bibbit
(c) Harding
(d) Frederickson

5. Fill in the blank: 'When did they sneak that danged ________ in there? Why, that thing is a menace!"
(a) Nurse
(b) Door
(c) Glass
(d) Control panel

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used to be a football player?

2. What does the nurse give to Chief Bromden

3. Who says, "Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power"?

4. What does the nurse in Disturbed say about Nurse Ratched?

5. What does Frederickson suggest to mix the vodka with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do McMurphy and the Chief do when the attendants try to get George to use soap in his shower?

2. What is the first rebellious act that Chief Broom commits?

3. What does Chief Broom do to help save McMurphy from his new vegetative state?

4. When McMurphy and the Chief are taken to the Shock Shop, what does the Chief vow not to do?

5. Why does McMurphy want a day pass from the ward?

6. What are some of the ways that the men begin to bond together during the fishing trip?

7. What does McMurphy receive from the doctor?

8. In response to the vetoing of his day pass, what does McMurphy do?

9. What does Billy maintain in terms of his opinion of McMurphy?

10. What is the story that McMurphy shares with Chief Broom?

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