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Quiz about One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Quiz

Since there are already quizzes about the 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' play and movie, I thought I'd write one about what started it all: the book by Ken Kesey.

A multiple-choice quiz by czolgolz. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
czolgolz

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
195,244

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
7 / 15

Plays
636

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Question 1 of 15

1. Chief Bromden serves as our narrator in this black comedy. What ailment does he fake? Hint

Insanity

Blindness

Epilepsy

Deafness

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Question 2 of 15

2. Who is the patient who was reduced to a vegetative state due to too much electroshock? Hint

Ruckly

Ellis

Rawler

Blastic

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Question 3 of 15

3. What patient was reduced to a vegetative state by a botched lobotomy? Hint

Ellis

Matterson

Bancini

Ruckly

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Question 4 of 15

4. Which 'chronic' describes himself as 'a miscarriage'? Hint

Rawler

Blastic

The Chief

Bancini

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Question 5 of 15

5. The three daytime aides were hired, according to the Chief, for their ability to hate. One is a dwarf, the other two are virtually identical. What is NOT one of their names? Hint

Warren

Williams

Washington

Wilson

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Question 6 of 15

6. McMurphy gets himself commited to get out of his sentence on the prison work farm. On what charge was he convicted? Hint

Statutory rape

Battery

Drunkeness

Vagrancy

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Question 7 of 15

7. On his first morning on the ward, McMurphy does something simple that shocks the other patients. What? Hint

He kisses Nurse Ratched

He sleeps in

He sings

He picks a fight with an aide

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Question 8 of 15

8. When McMurphy is interviewed by Doc Spivey, what common bond do they find they have? Hint

They were in the same unit in the Marines

They went to the same high school

They were fans of the same football team

They both hate Nurse Ratched

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Question 9 of 15

9. During the book, how many patients commit suicide? Hint

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Question 10 of 15

10. What did the public relations man wear that everyone thought so odd? Hint

Makeup

A phoney-looking toupee

A corset

Glasses on a string

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Question 11 of 15

11. What was the name of the prostitute Billy considered 'his girl'? Hint

Candy

Cindy

Sandra

Misty

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Question 12 of 15

12. McMurphy is shocked to find most of the 'acutes' are there voluntarily. According to Harding, who is the only acute (besides McMurphy) who's actually been committed? Hint

Fredrickson

Martini

Scanlon

Harding himself

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Question 13 of 15

13. What does the Chief call the huge conspiracy that controls everything? Hint

The Combine

The Black Iron Prison

The 'Man'

The Conspiracy

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Question 14 of 15

14. McMurphy manages to stay off the disturbed ward until he catches the aides tormenting a patient and he starts a fight. Which patient was he defending? Hint

The Chief

George

Harding

Billy

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Question 15 of 15

15. The book has a bittersweet ending. Which of these events DON'T happen at the end of the book? Hint

There is a mass exodus of the acutes from the ward

McMurphy assaults Nurse Ratched and is lobotomized

The doctor resigns in disgrace

The Chief smothers McMurphy and escapes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Chief Bromden serves as our narrator in this black comedy. What ailment does he fake?

Answer: Deafness

Everyone thinks the Chief can't hear them, which makes him privy to many of the ward's dirty little secrets. He's been there longer than anyone except Nurse Ratched.

2. Who is the patient who was reduced to a vegetative state due to too much electroshock?

Answer: Ellis

The Chief describes Ellis as standing with his hands nailed to the wall, locked in the same position as when he was strapped down in the shock shop. McMurphy is horrified to see him standing there wetting himself.

3. What patient was reduced to a vegetative state by a botched lobotomy?

Answer: Ruckly

Ruckly was a hell-raiser before. Now he just sits staring at a photo of his wife and sometimes screaming profanities.

4. Which 'chronic' describes himself as 'a miscarriage'?

Answer: Bancini

Pete Bancini suffered brain damage at birth. He worked a simple job with the railroad until it proved too much for him. Now he repeats 'I'm tired, I'm tired.' In his one lucid moment he described himself as a living miscarriage.

5. The three daytime aides were hired, according to the Chief, for their ability to hate. One is a dwarf, the other two are virtually identical. What is NOT one of their names?

Answer: Wilson

Williams is the dwarf. They only mention Warren's name once or twice.

6. McMurphy gets himself commited to get out of his sentence on the prison work farm. On what charge was he convicted?

Answer: Battery

He had six months to serve for battery and gambling. He had been previously arrested for rape, but never convicted.

7. On his first morning on the ward, McMurphy does something simple that shocks the other patients. What?

Answer: He sings

He sings in the shower. The Chief can't remember the last time he heard someone singing.

8. When McMurphy is interviewed by Doc Spivey, what common bond do they find they have?

Answer: They went to the same high school

They both attended the same high school, which gets McMurphy in good with the doctor.

9. During the book, how many patients commit suicide?

Answer: 3

Cheswick drowns himself in the pool when McMurphy stops standing up for everyone. Billy cuts his throat when Nurse Ratched threatens to tell his mother he'd been with a prostitute. Rawler, the patient from the disturbed ward, castrates himself while sitting on the toilet and bleeds to death before anyone realizes what he'd done. Also, the 'vegetable' Blastic dies the first night that McMurphy's there.

10. What did the public relations man wear that everyone thought so odd?

Answer: A corset

He wore a corset, or so the patients suspected.

11. What was the name of the prostitute Billy considered 'his girl'?

Answer: Candy

Billy kills himself when Nurse Ratched threatens to tell his mother he'd been with a prostitute. Sandra was her friend who hooks up with Sefelt.

12. McMurphy is shocked to find most of the 'acutes' are there voluntarily. According to Harding, who is the only acute (besides McMurphy) who's actually been committed?

Answer: Scanlon

Scanlon, the bomb nut, is there by force. The others could leave any time.

13. What does the Chief call the huge conspiracy that controls everything?

Answer: The Combine

He refers to it as the Combine. To him, people are just machines, and the patients are the ones who've broken down.

14. McMurphy manages to stay off the disturbed ward until he catches the aides tormenting a patient and he starts a fight. Which patient was he defending?

Answer: George

After the fishing trip, Nurse Ratched insists the men be deloused. George, the germ-phobe, can't stand to be touched, and the aides torment him. McMurphy and the Chief wind up in the disturbed ward when they fight off the aides.

15. The book has a bittersweet ending. Which of these events DON'T happen at the end of the book?

Answer: The doctor resigns in disgrace

After the nurse drives Billy to suicide, McMurphy assaults her and is taken off the ward. After this, patients begin checking out or changing wards, leaving only the Chief, Scanlon, and Martini as the main characters still there. The administration says they'll accept the doctor's resignation, but in a show of backbone, he says they'll have to fire him to be rid of him. McMurphy comes back later lobotomized. Unable to see his buddy like that, the Chief smothers him, then throws a gargantuan control panel through a window and escapes.

Source: Author czolgolz

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