One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Free Test Answers – Flashcards

Antagonist

He was influenced to do drugs, such as LSD which had an impact on his writing style.

Stanford University

Ken Kesey volunteered for the CIA’s MKUltra project which included experiments were volunteers given psychoactive drugs, including LSD.

Ken Kesey used to play in a band called the “Merry Pranksters” and continued to tour after the publishment of his famed book.

Ken Kesey and the “Merry Pranksters” were known for open use of psychoactive drugs, outrageous attire, and street theater.

The Fog Machine symbolizes lack of clarity, false security and opression. For Chief it represents his escape from reality either from his medication or out fear

Randle McMurphy represents a Christ figure because during their trip to the sea, McMurphy takes twelve men to fish just like Christ did when he had twelve disciples. This was a mission to take the patients out of the hospital.

Chief’s view of the Combine is a way to trap people who are not “suited” for society. It is a system that is in place to help the patients “conform” to the ideals of the society in that time. To him, it is a machine created by man in order to produce and “fix” anything wrong with people who do not have the same normal capacity as others.

Laughter

McMurphy also brought gambling as a motif throughout the novel. Gambling is something that brings the men closer together and a sense of doing activities that they are not told to do. To add, gambling is also a battle between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy because each time these two people would up their war against each other, raising the stakes higher and higher.

A psychiatric ward.

He was influenced to write One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s, where he used his experiences as a basis for his novel.

The ward is in the state of Oregon.

1962

The 1950’s

An old bus covered with psychedelic graffiti while being a member of the “Merry Pranksters”.

Women became more prevalent in the workforce and after the war, the economy went through a depression.

The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 which provided funding for mental health programs.

The novel influenced counter culture which emphasized rebelling against societal expectations.

Randle McMurphy

The Fishing Trip

By having meetings that expose embarrassing and incriminating personal details.

He takes off his towel and reveals his undergarment

He makes Ratched really angry by watching the World Series.

Every time McMurphy goes to do that duty, he goes up to Nurse Ratched’s glass window and thanks her unnecessarily.

McMurphy states he’s in need of a smoke from the carton of cigarettes he brought which was confiscated from him by Nurse Ratched.

C. Fishing Trip

McMurphy talks of how they need George to ensure their safety against storms and only he was experienced for the job of captain.

D. McMurphy did it to show he was superior over Washington

The fear of Billy Bibbit’s mother finding out what happened between him and Candy.

Chief lifts the control panel which McMurphy set as a challenge for Chief, Chief throws the control panel at the window and escapes through it.

Kesey conveys the idea that expressing sexuality is healthy and sane and suppressing sexuality is harmful. Ratched is prudish and harms the patients while prostitutes are sexual and are written in a positive light.

To Bromden, size equates to self-esteem, sexuality, and freedom. When someone is severely oppressed, they are small and when they are themselves, they are big.

Kesey conveys the idea that insanity is defined by society. McMurphy isn’t insane, but he differs from the social norm, giving him a false diagnosis of insanity.

Plot: He shows that chief Bromden really can talk but decides to fake deafness.

The society the hospital represents is unnatural and harmful. Patients suffer more around literal and figurative machinery and are pressured to be unnatural versions of themselves.

Outsiders/undesirables/broken down

The act of laughing is a powerful tool in the story. It’s is through this act that McMurphy is able to protest against the ward and other institutions that may try to oppress him and the other patients.

The psychedelic nature of the 1960s and his use of LSD

The EST table was a symbol of crucifixion. Jesus was crucified with his hands and feet nailed just like McMurphy had his his hands and feet tied down.

Plot: Because during these group meeting Nurse ratchet gets everyone to turn against once another, demonstrating her manipulative control.

Ken Kesey does not conform to an ordinary writing style. His work can be described as “dreamlike” and made of unnatural connections.

This is a biblical allusion to Jesus’ crown of thorns. McMurphy is being compared to Jesus. He sacrifices himself for the patients in the ward just like Jesus did for all people

The quote implies the motif of rebellion against an institution faking an illness in order to get away with doing mischievous things. The residents of the ward are beginning to realize that McMurphy may not be truly mentally ill at all. He may be simply fooling everyone and in the process of doing so, he is making a fool out of the mental ward as a whole.

Throughout the course of the novel Bromden has gone from being a timid and scared individual into being a self confident man that is ready to take in the world and explore at his leisure. He is quite ready to move on from the confines of the ward both physically and mentally. The whole ordeal with McMurphy has mad him a man that is ready to take on life and the world outside of the ward.

McMurphy is beginning to change his outlook on the residents of the ward. No these poor individuals aren’t merely tools for him to make a quick buck. He is actually protecting them and he is transforming into the savior they wholly crave for.

Bromden did his best to hide himself throughout the story. His role was that of a silent observer and only through this role was he able to record all of the occurrences within the ward. Bromden’s invisibility allowed him to witness things not easily available to the other patients. With his invisibility he was able to provide a detailed but somewhat unreliable narrative of the events in the story.

The patient’s laughter symbolizes defiance. Nurse Ratched wants the patients to be miserable but their laughter shows their defiance to be happy.

It is an agricultural machine. Chief calls the mental institution a combine to describe its mechanical nature and ultimately the mechanized nature of the world.

No, it does not. Ken Kesey drifts off into dream like comparisons of how he sees the world and how it really is.

D. The whales on McMurphy’s boxers allude to Moby-Dick. The phallic representation of the whale represents McMurphy’s strong sexuality. Nurse Ratched is obsessed with crushing McMurphy’s spirit just like Ahab was obsessed with killing the whale. Nature is represented through having an animal on his boxers and contrasts the mechanical nature of the ward.

Castrators. Women are characterized as threatening and inhibiting. The women in this novel take away the manhood of the patients and inhibit them from being their true natural selves.

The theme of women being oppressive towards man and taking away their manhood is expressed. Throughout most of the story women are seen as dominating and repressive even to the point of forming a type of matriarchal society under nurse Ratched. Many characters in the novel see women such as Harding’s wife and nurse Ratched as the true villains.

The quote signifies that nurse Ratched has such a tight hold upon the residents of her ward that she is able to get them to attack one another. She is able to get the ward’s residents to attack one another and shift the hate they have for her and their own flaws into attacks against each other

Plot Point: Randall P. McMurphy is the new admission and instantly he shakes everyone’s hand and begins laughing which is a foreign practice in the ward.

In the beginning the patients abided by the authority of the authority of Nurse Ratched in McMurphy’s perspective when he notices the lack of laughter. It is at the end of the novel, the patients gained independence such as Bromden escaping the combine and Harding leaving the combine as well.

McMurphy looks to gain the trust of the patients for selfish purposes and then at the end of the novel, McMurphy selflessly helps patients despite consequences for him.

He goes from being quiet and pretending to be deaf, to being open to McMurphy and going against the authority of the combine

A. Personification

D. A necklace

Plot Point: Nurse Ratched turns the patients against each other, causing them to attack one another like chickens.

University of Stanford / LSD

Being under the influence of drugs.

Gum / One of the boys that follows Nurse Ratched.

Chief Bromden. He suffers hallucinations of fog

White clothing and red nails

Ellis

Warren, Washington, and Williams.

Plot point: World Series

Sefelt and Fredrickson

Plot Point: McMurphy

Plot Point: He suggests that the patients be allowed into another room to be allowed to play games.

Plot Point: Soap

Plot point: Dog, Geese

Plot Point: He learns that he’s committed, so Ratched can keep him as long as she wants. So he decides to stop defending the patients

Plot Point: Cheswick

Plot Point: D. Sefelt

Plot point: Cigarettes, McMurphy

Plot Point: Fishing Trip

Plot Point: C. Advantage

Plot Point: Mrs. Ratched shows the patients that only the money in his account is going up while theirs is going down.

Plot Point: They fight with the aides in an attempt to protect George.

Plot Point:They get Electroshock therapy

Plot Point: Billy, McMurphy

Plot Point: McMurphy, Nurse Ratched

Plot Point: Chief Bromden

A. Monotonous

C. Leave the ward

Possible answers:
Chief is sane
Many patients leave
The nurses power is lessened

It shows how the asylum makes them into machines and they are all part of a mechanized world. The frustration and disappoint in their looks show show the asylum not just affects the inmates, it also affects those who work there.

Laugh is a symbol for happiness, which is not associated with the asylum. Being that they haven’t heard someone laugh in years suggests the misery and depression that the inmates experience in the ward. McMurphy’s laugh is a sign for a new beginning that involves happiness.

It shows the idea that there is only a narrow definition of “normal” or “acceptable” in society. Those who don’t seen to fit in are subject to isolation and considered to be a danger to the society. The ignorance of society is detailed with this quote and trying to make a perfect society that oppresses those who are different.

Chief is afraid of the fog disappearing because he feels a sense of safety. He fears that once the fog is gone, reality will set in that everything remains the same and nothing has changed. He is unable to accept the fact that change is not a bad thing and he is able to accept himself. The fog represents the lack of thought and accepting the facts. It is created by the mechanized world that society creates.

This shows how the inmates have been figuratively beaten into submission. Although McMurphy offers them an opportunity to revolt against the Nurse, their fear is overwhelmingly powerful than them. They are afraid of the harmful consequences that Nurse is known for.

This shows how convincing McMurphy is because he was able to make the characters stand up for what they believe is wrong. It takes a strong character to build weak men into determined men. Also, it shows how Nurse Ratched is losing control of the ward and how her lose of power is influencing the men to be fearless.

This shows the destructive power that society has on the inmates. They have been rejected and traumatized that they are reluctant to go back into society. They prefer the miserable treatment of the ward rather than the real world. The inmates continue to be in the ward and are reluctant to leave because of their own fears and not because of the Nurse. Although the ward has been portrayed as hell, it is seen as a safe haven to some of the inmates. It is also why they are

This is a representation of McMurphy, Nurse Ratched, and Chief. The ones that flew east and west were Ratched and McMurphy. They went the opposite direction and were separated from the rest. It shows how McMurphy was separated from reality due to the lobotomy. It shows how Nurse was detached from her power in the ward. Chief is the one that flew over the cuckoo’s nest and was able to move forward since he was able to escape the ward. Ratched and McMurphy were unable to save themselves from the horrific ward.

Possible Answers:
– The glass window at Ratched’s desk
– The Electro shock therapy
– The minimum amount of day rooms
– A strict schedule

Chief remembers World War 2 because it was in the late 1950s or early 1960s

The world believes that the mental health patients need to be changed to be a part of society. They want to fix them like a machine. The patients represent nature because they are their natural selves instead of conforming to society’s standards.

McMurphy shows the other patients that they deserve to be treated like a human being and not to tolerate the horrid conditions they are under. He fights for them so they can have some freedom. He gave Chief the courage to escape. McMurphy endured EST and a lobotomy for the patients and he died inside. The chief only killed his body because his spirit was already gone.

1962

World War 2

Although Chief is not mentally stable, his state of mind provides an insight into the misery that is experienced in the ward and society. He is a reliable source because he pretends to be deaf and is able to find out the secrets of the ward.

He is believed to be deaf. He is not, and this allows him to gain information in hospital staff meetings that patients aren’t allowed to see.

Yes, Chief is larger than McMurphy, but like the other patients, has a small identity that is a result of the Combine. Along with the patient’s Chief motivates McMurphy to free them from Ratched.

B.Surreptitious

Chief’s reclaiming of his identity from the Combine conveys the theme of liberation being destroyed by the society of Kesey’s time. By rebelling against the hospital, Chief reclaims his identity.

McMurphy sacrifices himself for the wellbeing of the patients, but unlike a Christ figure, McMurphy is vulgar, violent, and initially selfish.

McMurphy is boisterous and laughs, which is something the patients never do. He is confident in himself, so he doesn’t try to take up little space.

C. Naive

Acts include: Ripping Ratched’s shirt, breaking the glass window, organizing a fishing trip, sitting to watch TV, and sneaking prostitutes into the hospital.

B. The Public Relations officer of the hospital

One of Kesey’s themes is how prudish women are castrators. If Nurse Ratched was male, Kesey could not compare Ratched to Candy Starr and prove that sexuality is healthy

A. Altruistic

Nurse Ratched represents the strict society of the Combine that includes the oppression caused by women, loss of freedom, and loss of sexuality.

C.) I, II, and III

A.) “What do you think….I don’t mean physically, my friend, I mean what do you…”

D.) He was previously married before admitted to the Ward