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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does McMurphy want to plan in the end?

2. What are the Chief and McMurphy handed before they go to EST?

3. What does McMurphy do, even as they are hooking him up to the machines?

4. What causes the delay of the trip?

5. What does the Chief vow not to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the memories that the Chief recalls as the electroshock therapy hits him?

2. What do the night attendants do to Chief Broom's bed as he is sleeping?

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

4. During the going away party, they don't really have a plan for not getting caught, so Harding steps in. What does he propose they do?

5. What happens when the Captain calls the number the McMurphy gives him in order to validate their liability agreement?

6. What has Chief Bromden been believing about McMurphy?

7. What is Nurse Ratched's reaction to the window that McMurphy breaks?

8. What does the nurse do when the basketball 'accidentally' breaks the nurse's station window again?

9. What does Nurse Ratched finally do in order to begin to topple the reign of McMurphy?

10. What does McMurphy ask of Chief Broom as they are sharing stories of their lives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The nurses in the story run the gamut of nice to downright mean and manipulative. Is there a better nursing style in relation to these patients? Why did you answer the way you did? Choose one nurse character as the ideal nurse for this ward. Why did you choose this nurse? Do you think Nurse Ratched's style is well suited for this ward? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The rumors that Nurse Ratched spreads are a part of a passive aggressive strategy to undermine McMurphy's authority in the ward. Do you think these rumors were the best possible plan? Why or why not? What other things could she have done to create a soured image of McMurphy? Why do you think Nurse Ratched prefers more subtle methods of manipulation?

Essay Topic 3

Some patients on the ward are labels Chronics because they aren't ever going to leave the ward, but is this a reasonable idea? Do you think that some mental diseases cannot be cured? Why or why not? What kinds of symptoms/signs are incurable? Or can every person return to the outside world at one point or another?

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