One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Test Questions And Answers
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first descriptive feature we learn about Chief? - he's 6 foot 8, very big, but his mental illness makes him feel small & weak
What do we learn about the Chief's pretense? - - he pretends he's a deaf mute to protect himself & so people leave him alone
- he's been like that for years
- he is of ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Test
Questions And Answers
first descriptive feature we learn about Chief? - he's 6 foot 8, very big, but his mental illness
makes him feel small & weak
What do we learn about the Chief's pretense? - - he pretends he's a deaf mute to protect himself
& so people leave him alone
- he's been like that for years
- he is of so little importance to the institution he seems invisible
what is the Chief's description of the Big Nurse's entrance onto the ward? - - clopped in
mechanical metaphors
- Big Nurse works like a machine to run the ward
- she likes locks and being in control, she's smooth & automatic
- face is like a doll masking hatred underneath
- she resents, she doesn't want to be a woman
What do Big Nurse's big breasts symbolize and how is this ironic? - maternity & motherlike, but
she's a dehumanizing force
Big Nurse's name is synonymous to ___________ _____________ - evil nurse
what is big nurse's name? - Ratched
Ratchet: she twists the patients (tricks them)
Rat: (does her work quietly & quickly)
Wretched
What is the combine? - Chief's vision of forces that run the hospital & seek to run the outside
world as well. The Combine demands efficiency, total cooperation and order. It denies
individuality, and freedom. Demanding conformity & causing dehumanization.
What does the combine represent? - machine - like a world devoted to efficiency at the expense
of human beings
what is the fog machine? - - when the outside world is closing in on Chief, he shuts down and
creates a fog in his mind.
- he blames Big Nurse for the fog bc he believes everyone's in it too
, - to step out of the fog would put him at risk but bring him sanity
- he entered the ward to escape the fog, but now he enters the fog to escape the ward
when does Chief experience the fog? - in time of great stress, he hides on the fog bc he's
frightened, lost & insane
what is meant by "But it's the truth even if it didn't happen?" - - these are flashbacks, he's writing
post-experience
- telling readers not to get lost in his hallucinations & forget the central point
- Ken Kesey is telling everyone about the abuse in mental hospitals even though this is a fiction
novel.
from what point of view is the book written? - - first person (Chief)
- jumbled reaction of things with smart insight on them
- insider view into someone who is suffering mentally & filled w pain, which allows him to see the
truth.
what is the shock shop - where people are taken for electrotheropy
what is the setting of the novel - - an insane asylum located in Oregon
- microcosm: people outside are just as crazy as those inside
how is the new admission different from the others - - he isn't scared when he walks in,
confident
- resists aids
- laughs as he walks in
- he touches everyone
how is McMurphy like a christ symbol - - shows the importance of laughter
- trying to lift the cement panel
- resists / rebels
- hands are life giving / they heal
- Chief sees his tiny hand blow up as MM touches it, already shows how he's healing Chief
- RPM( Randle Mac McMurphy) : revolutions per minute, he's bringing a revolution, he's
presented as someone out of the ordinary
What does MM description show? - he's hardworking & tough (battle scars)
red hair: vibrancy & life
what time of year is it - fall, halloween
- symb. fall of the order
- autumn: death or decay
- monday morning: new beginnings, symb. death & rebirth
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