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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 causes the delay of the trip?
(a) Bad weather
(b) A fight in the ward
(c) Only one of McMurphy's friends show up
(d) Nurse Ratched

2. Who says, "Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power"?
(a) Harding
(b) Scanlon
(c) The doctor
(d) McMurphy

3. What does McMurphy want to plan in the end?
(a) A prank on the nurses
(b) A trip to the pool
(c) A going away party
(d) A send of for Nurse Ratched

4. Does Nurse Ratched punish McMurphy for the glass incident?
(a) No
(b) She reprimands him
(c) She punishes another patient
(d) Yes

5. What's the name of the boat they rented?
(a) The Lark
(b) Candy's Craft
(c) The Bessie
(d) The Robin

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the basketball go after #106?

2. What does McMurphy ask Nurse Ratched for?

3. Who is the 'big toothless knotty old Swede'?

4. When the Captain calls the number McMurphy gives him, what is he really calling?

5. Who says, "We ain't ordinary nuts"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does McMurphy receive from the doctor?

7. 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?

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

9. What has Chief Bromden been believing about McMurphy?

10. What would McMurphy do each time the nurse would ask him if he repented during his stay on the Disturbed ward?

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