Monday, October 27, 2008

Cuckoo's Nest Test Friday, November 14


Post your test prompt here. Remember, it can be a true/false statement or a multiple choice statement/question. Put your class period and test item number in front of your information. Also, include the correct answer/response, if you want your classmates to know. I'll explain all directions clearly in class. You'll earn five points for this exercise; you'll also do well on the test if you study here, of course.

105 comments:

Rachel S said...

Pd 1
What animal does Harding compare the patients and the doctor to?
A. Chickens
B. Dogs
C. Rabbits
D. Wolfs
E. Turkeys


[Correct answer: C]

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Rachel and other students: be sure to put your page numbers and the test item number. Doing so will help everyone succeed, I think.

Anonymous said...

Matt K

1st period

Question #11 (page 40)

~What does the "combine" symbolize in Chief's perspective?

A. a hard days work on the farm

B. an alternate dimension used to escape everyday life/reality

C. a tool used for fixing up mistakes made in public places (schools, hospitals, etc)

D. a weapon used to escape the ward

E. both B and C

Answer is~ E. both B and C

Casey S said...

3
Question 46; Pg 146
AFter McMurphy arrived, the men are no limited to two packs of cigarretes a day.
True or False

Correct answer: False

Arielle S. said...

7th
Qestion 93
page 269 - 270

Who killed McMurphy?
a. Nurse Ratchet
b. Chief
c. One of the black boys
d.Martini
e. Scanlon

Arielle S. said...

correct answer to 93.... B. Chief

Jayme K said...

3rd
Question 39
Pages 123-125

True/False
McMurphy wants to change the T.V. time to late night so he can watch the baseball game.

False: afternoon

Anonymous said...

Period 3.
Question 48.
Pages 150-152.

McMurphy temporarily began conforming to the ways of the ward due to a talk he had with the lifeguard. Who killed themselves in revolt of McMurphy's actions?

A. Harding
B. Bibbit
C. Bromden
D. Cheswick
E. Sefelt

Answer: D. Cheswick

Anonymous said...

period 1
Question 16
p. 54-56

What does Mr. McMurphy call Group Sessions?
A. chicken parties
B. peckin' parties
C. animal parades
D. farm fiestas

Anonymous said...

the correct answer is B

Brittany S said...

pd 1

Mr. Hardin says that the Nurse is "So intoxicated with the sweet milk of human kindness that her deed has generated within her large bosom, that she is beside herself with hatred."

pg, 57-59

It is False, she is beside herself with generosity

Brittany S said...

it should be either T/F

Jordan A said...

3
Question 26
Page 85

What locked up item in the cabinet does McMurphy complain about to Nurse Ratched?

A. Shampoo
B. Toothpaste
C. Deodorant
D. Comb
E. Towel

Jordan A said...

correct answer is B.

Chad A. said...

3
Question 25
Page 81-83
Who is the old Vegetable who died the night of Chief’s nightmare?
A. Geever
B. Blastic
C. Turkle
D. Scanlon
E. Taber

Answer Blastic

Krispy said...

Pd 5

Question 66 pg 204-206

Who loaned the green coat to the girl at the bait shop?

A. McMurphy
B. Harding
C. Billy Bibbit
D. George
E. Sefelt

Answer C. Billy Bibbit

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Kristin--Your picture reminds me of Orange Juice, a character you'll read about in the novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.

Mallory said...

P.3

Pages 78-80
Question #24

True/False: When Chief wakes up from his awful dream, he realizes that the mental institution cares and respects more about patients when they are dead rather than when they are alive.

Answer: TRUE

Stephanie B. said...

Pd. 3
Pgs 87-89
Number 27

What is Nurse Ratched's first impression when McMurphy walks out of the bathroom in a towel?
A) Delight
B) Shock
C) Sadness
D) Boredom
E) Anger

[correct answer: b]

Terril V.H. said...

pd.7

introductory pages
Question #96

True/False: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was Ken Kesey's first novel?

Answer: True

Anonymous said...

pd.7

Question #92 (pages 267-268)

What is one thing McMurphy did NOT do to Big Nurse?
a. Tried to choke Her
b. Poked her eyes out
c. Broke the nurses window
d. Ripped her dress

[correct answer: B]

Anonymous said...

pd.5

#75
T/F

When McMurphy and Chief first arrive in disturbed all the patients are pacing the room back and forth.

[correct answer: true]

Jaron A said...

Pd.1
Question #1(pgs.9-11)

T/F
Chief describes Nurse's lips as being a "funny orange".
[correct answer: True]

Dani S. said...

pd. 5
Question #70 (pg. 216-218)

When the guys arrived back to the hospital after the fishing trip, McMurphy mostly felt _______?
a. excited
b. exhausted
c. anxious
d. wasted (drunk)

Correct answer is B. exhausted

Anonymous said...

Pd. 3
Question #33

Statement:
The doctor says that the mixed population (chronics and acutes) in the ward is a good thing.

Answer: False, the doctor says it is a bad thing.

Zach S said...

3rd
Question #47
p. 147-149

McMurphy realizes he has to follow the rules if he wants to leave the ward after talking to who?

A. Chief
B. A Nurse from Disturbed
C. Big Nurse
D. The Lifegaurd

Zach S said...

answer is D

Kelli H. said...

1st Period
Pages 27-29
Test Question #7

What is Miss Ratched's response when asked her opinion of the new patient(McMurphy)?

A. good looking
B. friendly
C. comforting
D. controlling
E. respectful

Correct Answer: D. controlling

Robert M said...

period 5
pages 192-194
Question 62
The patients are all unfazed towards nurse ratcheds threatening stories and all willingly volunteer to go on the fishing trip.

Robert M said...

the correct answer is false they're terrified

Thomas R said...

Period 7

Question #91
Pages 265-266

How did Billy Bibbit kill himself?

A. He slit his wrists
B. He overdosed on some of the doctor's medicine
C. He cut his throat
D. He drowned at the bottom of the pool
E. Billy Bibbit didn't kill himself

(Correct answer is C, he cut his throat)

Rachel S said...

Sorry everyone!
mine's # 18. pg. 60-62.

Jesse W said...

What is one of McMurphy's tattoos?
a. A dragon
b. A cross
c. A poker hand
d. A chinese symbol

Answer: C, a poker hand

question # 23 pages 75-77

Ally C said...

5
pg168
#54

Who is known for having fits.
a.mcmurphy
b.mr. turkle
c.chief
d.harding
e.sefelt

correct answer: e. sefelt

Jake E said...

pd1
pg 21-23
#5
Chief Bromden has been on the ward the longest.
True

Anonymous said...

period 3
pgs. 90-92

Question #28

McMurphy made Billy Bibbit blush by telling a story in which Billy had a 14 inch you-know-what. What nickname did McMurphy give Billy as a result?

a. "Big" Billy Bibbit
b. Billy "Club" Bibbit
c. Billy "Bulges" Bibbit
d. None of these

Anonymous said...

correct answer : B.

Paige P said...

period 5

#67 pg 207-209

While on the fishing trip Sefelt is assigned as captain of the ship.

[answer: False-George]

Brittney R said...

Pd.3

Page 141-143

The hospital is in the middle of a big city in Oregon? T/F

False, it is in the country in Oregon

Anonymous said...

5
pg.s 195-197
T or F
Candy cant come on the fishing trip because she is getting married.
Answer f

Alex T said...

Period 5
Pages 228-230
#74

McMurphy fought Washington in the bathroom? T/F

(Correct answer is True.)
(It is on page 230.)

Sara B said...

When McMurphy and Chief go to get shock therapy after their fight in the shower, who is the man they see coming out on a gurney?
A. Sefelt
B. Cheswick
C. The Lifeguard
D. Scanlon
Answer: The Lifeguard

Sara B said...

pd7
pg 237-238
77.
When McMurphy and Chief go to get shock therapy after their fight in the shower, who is the man they see coming out on a gurney?
A. Sefelt
B. Cheswick
C. The Lifeguard
D. Scanlon
Answer: The Lifeguard

Kyera N said...

pd1

#15 pages 51-53

How does Chief describe Pete Bancini's arm when Pete hits one of the black boys.

a. hammer
b. wrecking ball
c. ball and chain
d. hulk's arm


correct answer: c

Britt W said...

period 3
#49
p. 153-155

Sefelt gives Dilatin capsules to Fredrickson because he thinks they have disasterous side effects. (T/F)

Answer: TRUE

Alyssa C. said...

period 3
#30
pg. 96-98

McMurphy and the doctor want to have a carnival on the ward. (T/F

Answer: True

Lori D. said...

pd 7
#79 pg 241-242

McMurphy believes that electric shock treatment is

A. charging his battery.
B. making the fog thicker.
C. making the fog thiner.
D. making him weak.
E. fun!

correct answer: A

Lindsey H said...

Pd. 3
Page: 120-122
Question # 38

Who proposed to a girl and was turned down and is now haunted by it?
a. Billy Bibbit.
b. Pete.
c. Sefelt.
d. Scanlon.
e. Martini

*answer is a. Billy Bibbit

Nicole said...

pd. 1
#8
pages 30-32

True or false. The "combine" is an organixatino that aims to adjust the outside the insed, and Nurse Ratched controls it.

True.

Joey B said...

period 7
#78
pg. 239-240
Tee Ah Millatoona means the "Pine-That-Stands-Tallest-on-the-Mountain.
T/F
Answer is true

hollyt said...

pd. 5
#73
pgs. 225-227

True OR False
When Chief see's McMurphy playing the other guys out of their money, Chief stands up for them and tells them that he lifted the control panel.

(Answer: False, Cheif doesn't stand up for them, he let's McMurphy take their money.)

Anonymous said...

5th Period

#58 (pgs.180-182)

True or False
Chief's mother is white.

(answer: true)

Mik D said...

pd 7

#80 (pg 243-244)

Why did Nurse Ratched bring McMurphy back to the ward?
a. He has had to much electroshock theropy.
b. The machine broke down.
c. She thought it would show the patients how vulnerable he was.
d. He was goin to be released the next day.

answer: c

Chase D said...

Period 1
# 4 (18-20)
Do the patients tell on each other by writing in the Nurse's log T/F



Answer: true

Paul H. said...

period 7
question#88
pages 249-250
True or False
Three hookers spend the night at the asylum.

Anonymous said...

period 3

question number 32
pages 102-104

McMurphy gets mad at the guys for acting too "cagey" about the World Series.

answer: True

Erica E said...

period 7

question #82
pages 247-248

true or false
Billy's "girl" was named Daisy.

false Candy

Erica E said...

period 7

question #82
pages 247-248

true or false
Billy's "girl" was named Daisy.

false Candy

Anonymous said...

period 1

question #21
page 69-71

True or False
Chief Bromden believes that Nurse Ratched can make time go faster or slower by turning a dial

True

Anonymous said...

period 1
question 6
page 14-16

mcmurphy wants to be the bull moose looney of the ward.


false

Darren N said...

prd 3
Q:41
129-131

True/False

Chief gets to clean the staff room because he has been at the ward the longest.

A:False, because they think he is deaf and cant hear their converstations.

Nick W said...

50

Nick W said...

50, pg 156-158

What does harding tell his wife that they have been rationed of?
a.cigarettes
b.cards
c.chips
d.converstation,manliness
e.EST

Anonymous said...

pd.5
#56
TorF McMurphy has the men practice basketball in the hallways?

Answer: true

kaylee k said...
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kaylee k said...

Period 1.
#10.
Page 38.

Why does Cheif think the Public Relations guy laughs so much?
A. He find people living in agony amusing.
B. His hair keeps falling out of his head and down his collar.
C. He's flirting with Nurse Ratched.
D. He is mechanical and stuck in a repetitive mode.

Answer; B.

Anonymous said...

cody Pd. 3
question 35 Pages 111-113


The Chief imagines himself in the picture of the man fly fishing.

True.

Anonymous said...

period 7
Q: when Harding and the girl go off on their own, she screams because he had a seizure.
A: False, Sefect had the siezure

Anonymous said...

Pd. 3

#37
pg. 117-119

T/F: Billy flunked out of college because he had bad grades.

Answer: False, he quit ROTC

Derek G said...

Pd. 5
#59
pg. 183-185
true of false: The black boy was under chief's bed because he was told to spy on mcmurphy.

Anwser: False he was scraping off old gum

Anonymous said...

pd. 3
pgs. 126-128

Why do Big Nurse and the black boys begin to suspect Chief Bromden of pretending to be deaf and dumb?

a. Chief calls out McMurphy's name
b. Chief raises his hand when McMurphy calls on him
c. Chief is startled when he hears a black boy's voice
d. Chief is seen conversing with Cheswick
e. Chief talks in his sleep

Anonymous said...

pd. 3
pgs. 126-128
answer (b) - Chief raises his hand when McMurphy calls on him

Nicole O. said...

In the staff meeting, after chief raises his had who, who is believed to, "consitute an actual danger," and is "a disturbing influence."

A. Chief
B. Billy Bibbit
C. Harding
D. McMurphy

[answer D. McMurphy]

Anonymous said...

7- #89 pages 261-262 Which two people were still sleeping when roll was takin?
a)Sandy and Billy
b)Sandy and McMurphy
c)Candy and Billy
d)Candy and McMurphy
e)Cheif and McMurphy

Correct answer is C

Brittany F. said...

What does McMurphy decide to throw through the exterior window of the ward?

a.)His Fist
b.)A chair
c.)The control panel
d.)A bed

*the answer is C-The control panel

Derek H said...

P.3
#36
Pgs.114-116

Q: Chief states that McMurphy tries to drag him and the other patients out of the fog.

A: True

Ty F said...

Period 3
question 33
pages 105-107

Nobody will play poker with McMurphy because he got so mad at everyone that when he played with them he got them into a very deep debt.

TRUE

Tono-chan said...

Period 1
Question #12
pages 42-44

What subject is discussed during the first meeting?

a. Pete's tiredness
b. Harding's wife
c. Changing TV time to watch the World Series
d. Cigarette ration
e. Ellis' peeing problem

Then answer is b. Harding's wife

Alexa S said...

pd.5
#72
(222-224)

True or False:
Q: McMurphy tells Billy that he should pay Candy 'bread' for the trip.

A: true

Nicolette M said...

Period 7
Question #87
Pages 257-258

True or False...
Harding wants his wife to be there when he decides to leave the institution.


Answer: True

Anonymous said...

Period 1
Question #3
Pages 15-17

When McMurphy introduces himself to the others in the ward, what does McMurphy call himself?

a.) A Gambling Fool
b.) A Racing Redneck
c.) A Great Friend
d.) A Con Artist

(Correct answer: A)

Breanna W. said...

Pd 5
question 78????????? forgot my packet at home
pages 234-236

Page 235

Ture or false Mcmurphy and the Cheif both take the blue capsules before they get sent to EST.

The answer is false
they dont take the pill and the pill is red not blue

TJ P said...

Pd 7

Question 90

Page 63

What does McMurphy tell the "Acutes" what they aren't?

A:Toys
B:Plants
C:Animals
D:Puppets
E:Objects

Correct answer is C

Andrew D said...

7

#81 pg 245-246

What does McMurphy NOT do when Nurse Ratched is trying to hold a meeting?
A)wink
B)belch
C)yawn
D)fart
E)all of the above

correct answer is C

Anonymous said...

pd 1st.

Question #14 (48-50)

Everytime the hospital receives a new patient the doctor goes into his "Therapeutic Community Speech?"

True or False

answer=true

Thanh C. said...

Thanh Chau
Per 3

Page 94, I'm not sure what question I have but here it is.
What does McMurphy fling at the clock?

A.pasta
B.cheese
C.milk
D.butter

correct answer- D.butter

Megan T said...

Pd. 1
Question # 20
pg. 66-68
McMurphy makes a bet, which puts him up against Nurse Rathced.MdMurphy bets that he can get the best of Mrs. Rached before the week is up. True or False?

Answer - True

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

From Katie Madsen, who emailed me her information because the blog didn't work for her (can/does happen):

pd 7 question #86 pages 255-256

true or false
Harding comes up with the plan to tie Turkle up, making it look like McMurphy tied him up and took his keys in order to escape.
true

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

From Andrew T., who could not get the blog to work either (can/does happen):

Where does Chief plan on going immediately after escaping?
a. Mexico
b. East Coast
c. back to his hometown
d. California
e. Oklahoma


c. back to his hometown

Number 94, pages 271-272

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Erin S. #19

Since almost all the Acutes are voluntarily there, why don't they leave as soon as they are dissatisfied?

a. They are afraid of the outside world.
b. They enjoy being at the ward.
c. Actually, they cannot leave due to state regulations.
d. They don't even realize there is an outside world.

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Alex Weidenbach #22

What in the dayroom bothers McMurphy during their blackjack games but doesn't bother anyone else?
a. television turned up too loud
b. Nurse watching them play
c. music too loud through intercom
d. squeaking chair that Cheswick is sitting in

c. is answer

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

a. is answer for Erin S.'s

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Breanna W. actually has 76, not 78.

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Josh M's #13 pp. 45-47

Answer is false.

The doctor is very serious and unhappy while going through McMurphy's file folder (his history; information about his past).

Mike K said...

Pd. 1
Question #9
Pages 33-35

What time are the patients woken up every morning?
a. 5:30
b. 6:00
c. 6:30
d. 7:00
(answer = 6:30)

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Christian Ode #65

McMurphy calls Chief the Bull Goose Looney.
F


Gil Haugan #60

Chief’s father’s name is symbolic and adds deeply to the allegorical quality of the novel.
T


Zach Schultz #71

After the fishing trip people start questioning McMurphy's reason/motives of being on the ward.
T

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Carmen L. #61

What does McMurphy tell Chief he can do to go on the fishing trip for free?
a. steal music albums from Nurse Ratched's office
b. lift the control panel
c. talk
d. break out of the ward
e. sneak out with everyone

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

Ethan T. #95

T/F Ken Kesey was king of the Happy Hooligans. F

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

What does Harding talk about to the night supervisor to distract her from seeing what's going on in the ward? (Harding uses his rapier-sharp wit to get them out of a bind.)
a. Existentialism
b. his wife
c. his homosexuality, which is in question, actually, at the novel’s close
d. Billy Bibbit and Candy
e. how the dark helps him achieve a better bowel movement

e

Mr. Matt Christensen said...

The one above about Harding is Rachel K's #84.

Jennifer B. said...

Period 5
Question #52
Pages 162-164

What does Harding call the Electroshock Therapy room?
a.)Buzz Shop
b.)Electroshock Shop
c.)Zap Room
d.)Shock Shop
e.)Shock 'em Room

Jennifer B. said...

the correct answer to number 52 is D

Anonymous said...

Period 5
#51
Pages 159-161

_________ acts like a jet pilot behind the control panel in the tub room?

A. McMurphy
B. Frederickson
C. Mangino
D. Martini
E. Bancini

Anonymous said...

Correct answer to #51 is
D. Martini

Justin D said...

Period 5
Question 55
Page 171-173

When Nurse Ratched took away the tub room, McMurphy threw a fit then punched the window. True or False

Answer False