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Honors American Lit One flew over the cuckoos nest
questions over the novel and author background
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Literature
11th Grade
05/20/2012

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How long did Ken Kesey live and where was he born?
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1935-2001; colorado
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Ken Kesey moved with his family to _____/
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eugene, oregon
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Who did Ken Kesey marry? did he have any children?
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his high school love; 3 children
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Where and when did kesey graduate from?
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1957; university of oregon
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Where did KEsey go in 1958?
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stanford
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While in college, Kesey participated in ____ and _____.
Definition
wrestling and theater
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Where did Kesey go in 1959 and what did he do there?
Definition
Melo Park Veteran's HOspital; partcipated in studies examing the effects of pscyhoactive drugs
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The studies he did at the hospital were part of a secret CIA founded project called _____.
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mk ultra
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What was mk ultra?
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part of an initiative to study mind control and interrogation behavior
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Why was mk ultra questionable?
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some people did not know they were being drugged; ultimately it was discontinued
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Kesey eventually began working as a ______in a mental institution. He was sympathetic to the patients and he voluntarily received _____.
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orderly; electroshock therapy
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When was his first novel released?
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1962
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Ken Kesey's first novel was made into a play in _____ and made into a film in ____.
Definition
1963; 1975
Term
One flew over the cuckoo's nest film won what award?
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best picture
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Kesey becomes a leading figure in the growing _____movement in the 1960s.
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counterculture
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This movement was confusing for Kesey because he was too young to be a ____and too old to be a ______.
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beatnik; hippi
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Kesey became famous for _____.
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acid tests
Term
What do you do during acid tests?
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listen to music, try acid,and see what happens
Term
What was kesey's favorite band?
Definition
the warklocks, later known as the grateful dead
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When did Kesey published his next novel? What was it?
Definition
1964; "sometimes a great notion"
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Kesey and his friends journey across the country to ____ in a school bus. They called themselves the______.
Definition
new york; merry pranksters
Term
The merry pranksters meet with _____on the road trip.
Definition
jack kerouac
Term
As time goes on, his writing becomes more______.
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autobiographical
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He decided to stay on the _____for the rest of his life.
Definition
west coast
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What was kesey's last published work?
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an article in rolling stones advoacating for peacer after the events of 9/11
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When did Kesey die?
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november 2001
Term
Who were the first two people in 1937 to treat schizophrenic patients with applications of electricity?
Definition
Ugo Cerletti and Lucino Bini
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When did Ugo CErletti and Lucino Bini first apply electroshock to a human patient?
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april 1938
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The arrival of _____in psychiatric treatment in the early 1950s made electroconvulsive therapy a second choice or last resort.
Definition
thorazine
Term
Who is nailed to the wall in the novel?
Definition
ellis
Term
Which patient---the former "bull goose loony" is embarrassed by his hands?
Definition
harding
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What does dr. spivey propose as a therapeutic way to liven up the ward?
Definition
have a carnival
Term
Who does mcmurphy convince to provide the 21st vote for the world series?
Definition
chief bromden
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What does mcmurphy dislike about the main dayroom--which ultimately prompts the creation of a second day room?
Definition
the music is too loud
Term
Where does mcmurphy comes to the hospital from?
Definition
a work farm
Term
Which of the acutes is marked by his frequent stuttering?
Definition
billy babbit
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"Damned if you do, damned if you don't"
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scanlon referring to sefelt
Term
What is mcmurphy dreaming of?
Definition
faces
Term
"That's why you shouldn't of broke that window. They see you're big now. Now they got to bust you."
Definition
bromden
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"I just want to touch him because he's who he is."
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chief bromden
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"There you'll be. It's the big Chief Bromden, cuttin down the boulevard--men, women, and children rockin' back on thier heels to peer at him..."
Definition
mcmurphy
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"I just want to touch him because he's who he is."
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bromden
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"mcmurphy. oh, you damned mcmurphy."
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candy
Term
"We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschac for you? No? You must hurry on? Ah, he's gone. Pity."
Definition
harding talking to the guy who asked about the uniforms
Term
"McMurphy! We need some help!"
Definition
harding
Term
"Two o'clock Saturday night. Slip up and knock on that same window you was at this morning. I'll talk the night aide into letting you in."
Definition
mcmurphy
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Who writes the article on One Flew over the cuckoos nest and sexism?
Definition
elizabeth mcmahan
Term
What does Chief broom bromden call the mental institution?
Definition
the combine
Term
What is a ratchet?
Definition
a mechanism that engages the teeth of a wheel permitting motion in one direction only
Term
who is another character that stutters?
Definition
ruckley
Term
Who are the four powerful females in the novel?
Definition
nurse ratched, mrs. bibbit, mrs. harding, and mrs. bromden
Term
Who is the only good woman in the novel?
Definition
the japanese nurse
Term
What is the purpose of a geisha?
Definition
there for the pleasure and comfort of men
Term
What biblical character does Billy represent?
Definition
judus, the betrayer
Term
Who are the two whores in the novel?
Definition
candy and sandy
Term
"we are victims of matriarchy here"
Definition
harding
Term
bromden's mother turned his father into a _____.
Definition
alcoholic
Term
What happens to Blastic?
Definition
he is disemboweled and rust spills out
Term
What happens to Taber?
Definition
he is raped by one of the aides
Term
How old was mcmurphy when he first had sex?
Definition
ten
Term
Nurse Ratched compares Mcmurphy to another patient who also was a manipulator. This patient is ____.
Definition
maxwell taber
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Who does harding compare nurse ratched to at the end of the novel?
Definition
hitler
Term
What does mcmurphy sticking his hand through the glass represent?
Definition
that even though the patients cannot see the power of nurse ratched, it is always there just like the glass was very clear he could hardly see it and you have to go the extra mile to take control and make her lose control
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What four people laugh a lot after the fishing trip?
Definition
Harding, Scandlon, Dr. Spivey, and sefelt
Term
What was bromden's "papa" name (translation)?
Definition
the pine that stands tallest on the mountain (yet, he was manipulated by his wife--size does not always mean power)
Term
What is one mcmurphy's boxers?
Definition
white whales with red eyes
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Who are the three acute patients whose lives have been destroyed by electroschock theraphy? What does this represent?
Definition
ellis, ruckly, and taber; all of these people have rebelled against authority and the electro schock table is shaped like a cross---christ imagery because jesus rebelled against authority and ellis was actually nailed to wall
Term
What is mcmurphy's full name?
Definition
randall patrick mcmpuphy
Term
What tribe is chief bromden from?
Definition
the columbia indians
Term
how long has bromden been in the hospital
Definition
ten years
Term
Where is mcmurphy's scar?
Definition
his nose
Term
What is harding's first name?
Definition
dale
Term
Doctor spivey may be addicted to ____.
Definition
opiates
Term
What is cheswick's first name?
Definition
charles
Term
Who are four hospital aides?
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warren, washington, williams, geever; three w's are day time aides and geever is a night aide
Term
What is Candy's name and where is she from?
Definition
candy starr, portland
Term
What leads mcmurphy to his first electroshock treatment?
Definition
his defense of george
Term
What is george's name? what is his hertiage? what is he afraid of?
Definition
george sorenson; swedish; dirtiness
Term
Who always declares he is tired and what point told the other patients he was born dead?
Definition
old pete---pete bancini
Term
who is a vegetable?
Definition
old blastic
Term
The lifeguard used to play ____. how long has he been in the ward?
Definition
football; eight years
Term
____started out as an acute but changed into a chronic because of his lobotomy.
Definition
ruckly
Term
Who is the only acute who was involuntarily committed to the hospital? he frequently fantasizes about blowing things up
Definition
scanlon
Term
who are the two epileptic patients?
Definition
sefelt and frederickson; they need more medical care then the other patients but they don't receive it because the staff is too concerned with making the disorderly orderly
Term
Why doesn't sefelt take his medicine? what does he do with it?
Definition
it makes his teeth fall out so he gives it to frederickson who enjoys taking two doses
Term
Who is mr. turkle?
Definition
nighttime orderly for nurse ratched; he is kind to bromden
Term
what is bromden's father's indian name?
Definition
chief tee ah millatoona
Term
chief bromden's father's marriage to a white woman represents?
Definition
american attack on native americans
Term
who leads tours on the ward making out that the ward is a nice place?
Definition
public relation
Term
who is nurse pilbow? what is she afraid?
Definition
a strict catholic nurse who has a birthmark on her face that she attempts to scrub away; afraid of the patients sexuality
Term
who is ralwer?
Definition
a patient on the disturbed ward who commits suicide by cutting off his testicles
Term
what is hardings wife's name?
Definition
vera harding
Term
who is the oldest chronic on the ward?
Definition
colonel matterson; he is a world war 2 veteran and was commited to the hospital by his wife
Term
who does mcmurphy refer to as a "frightened, desperate, ineffectual little rabbit"?
Definition
dr. spivey
Term
Who are two acutes who go on the fishing trip?
Definition
tadem and gregory
Term
what patient lives in their own world and sees things in the water that no one else sees?
Definition
martini
Term
What is the name of the work farm mcmurphy came from?
Definition
pendleton work farm
Term
What is dale harding the president of?
Definition
the patients council
Term
During bromden's nightmare, he dreams of a slaughterhouse and old blastic is hung on a meat hook. what pours out of his wound?
Definition
ash and rust
Term
"i've got worrries of my own without getting hooked with yours. so just quit!"
Definition
mcmurphy
Term
what is mcmurphy's first act of violence?
Definition
breaking the glass window
Term
how does billy commit suicide
Definition
cuts his throat
Term
who are the only patients left on the ward during part four
Definition
bromden,martini, scanlon
Term
what does bromden do to mcmurphy after mcmurphy's operation
Definition
suffocates him
Term
The pecking party represnts?
Definition
the lack of unity among the men in the ward
Term
what does the monopoly game represent?
Definition
mcmurphy wins while the other patients lose because mcmurphy refuses to conform to the rules of the nurse, unlike the other patients
Term
Who represents the main disciple?
Definition
the chief
Term
Which patient has been on the ward the longest?
Definition
bromden
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