One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nest Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who has to decide if McMurphy is same enough to leave the hospital?

Correct Answer: D) Dr. Spivey and Nurse Ratched.

2. Why was Chief newly paranoid in the ward?

Correct Answer: B) He thought people knew he could actually hear and speak.

3. Bromden tells us the story of two Acutes that became Chronics. How?

Correct Answer: C) They were overloaded in the 'Shock Shop' and lobotomised.

4. Why was McMurphy laughing at Bromden?

Correct Answer: B) He was not fooled by his deaf and dumb act.

5. Who are the Acutes?

Correct Answer: B) The patients considered still sick enough to be fixed.

6. What does the destruction of the Nurse's station symbolize in the novel?

Correct Answer: C) The patients' reclaiming of power and autonomy.

7. What does the Chief's act of breaking the window and escaping symbolize?

Correct Answer: B) The triumph of individual will over oppressive systems.

8. What does Bromden tell us about Colonel Matterson?

Correct Answer: D) He is a Chronic prone to lifting nurses' skirts up with his cane.

9. What board-game were they playing in the day room for 3 days?

Correct Answer: A) Monopoly.

10. According to Bromden, at the beginning of this passage, McMurphy only gets mad once. What does he get mad about?

Correct Answer: C) Not watching the World series.

11. How does Nurse Ratched maintain her power over the patients?

Correct Answer: B) Through manipulation and psychological control.

12. Who or what is the Bull Goose Loony?

Correct Answer: A) The leader of the Acutes.

13. McMurphy places a wager on whether or not he can hit a clock with what kind of projectile?

Correct Answer: C) Butter.

14. How does McMurphy appear to the chief at the end of the chapter?

Correct Answer: B) Exhausted.

15. After returning from Disturbed, what does Cheswick do?

Correct Answer: B) Drowns himself.

16. Only one other patient joins McMurphy in voting for the World Series. Who is it? Harding, Bibbit, Cheswick, or Ruckly?

Correct Answer: D) Cheswick.

17. How does the novel use symbolism to explore the theme of freedom versus confinement?

Correct Answer: B) By contrasting the open sea during the fishing trip with the closed environment of the ward.

18. Eventually, what do all the participants in the staff meeting-except the nurse-agree to do with McMurphy?

Correct Answer: B) To send him to disturbed.

19. Why are the Acutes 'uneasy' when McMurphy enters?

Correct Answer: A) They are scared he will cause trouble and get them all in trouble.

20. McMurphy writes the nurse a message in backwards text. Where does he put it for her to read?

Correct Answer: A) In the toilet; under the rim of the toilet.