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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. Where does Nurse Ratched go as the men are sitting in front of the TV in silent protest?
(a) Home
(b) To the bathroom
(c) To the meeting room
(d) To the medication locker

2. What does Nurse Ratched fear the men will think of McMurphy if he is sent away?
(a) He will become an inspiration
(b) He will become a nuisance
(c) He will be forgotten
(d) He will be a martyr

3. What does McMurphy say the previous doctor he had diagnosed him with?
(a) Being a psychopath
(b) Being a predator
(c) Being a lost cause
(d) Being a cannibal

4. Where does the staff want to send McMurphy?
(a) Another hospital
(b) Back to prison
(c) Solitary confinement
(d) The Disturbed Ward

5. Who else does Nurse Ratched count in the vote that makes the current vote NOT in favor of the World Series?
(a) The Chronics
(b) The nurses
(c) The Disturbed patients
(d) The black boys

Short Answer Questions

1. What is EST, according to Harding?

2. Where does the Chief try to hide?

3. What does Harding have that no other patient has?

4. Harding and McMurphy banter to decide who the biggest ______________ is in the hospital.

5. What takes place over the course of a few days in the ward?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. While the men understand McMurphy's change in behavior, what tragic event occurs that makes the ward go back to its normal routine?

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

4. What is the punishment for the men after the incident in #3 takes place?

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. Why is Chief Bromden allowed to be in the meeting room when Nurse Ratched and the other members of the medical team are having a meeting?

10. What is the cleaning crew of the mental hospital called?

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