One flew over the cuckoo's nest Questions

Chief doesn't like to shave before breakfast because he

is not strong enough to evade the Combine's tricks

McMurphy talks Big George into signing up for the fishing trip by

making him Captain

The fog machine is

the Combine's sterilization device

The toothpaste is locked up because

ward policy calls for locking it up

Nurse Ratched says McMurphy is

a theft or manipulator

McMurphy compares group therapy to

a pecking party

Billy stutters for the first time when he

tried to say "mama"

The first things Chief notices about McMurphy is his

loud voice

Before Chief escapes, he

gives McMurphy's cap to Scanlon

Billy Bibbit commits suicide because

Big Nurse threatens to tell his mother about Candy

After attacking Big Nuse, McMurphy disappears because he

receives a lobotomy

Chief kills McMurphy because he

doesn't want him to suffer

Chief escapes by

throwing the control panel through the window

Big Nurse opposes the patients' request for afternoon TV because she

doesn't want to upset the schedule

The character that stutters when he talks is

Billy Bibbit

The character that complains that he is always tired is

Bancini

The patient that is dominated by his wife is

Harding

The character that drowns is

Cheswick

The oldest patient on the ward is

Col. Matterson

The character that is named captain of the fishing trip is

Big George

Name of the narrator of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Chief Bromden

Name the character who is the primary protagonist of the novel

McMurphy

Name the character who is considered the primary antagonist of the novel

Big Nurse

Where is the setting of the novel?

195s in Oregon

Cheswick is killed during an intense session in the Shock Shop

False

What does the R.P stand for in McMurphy name?

Randle Patrick McMurphy

The patient who is named captain on the fishing trip doesn't want to go because

he is scared of Big Nurse

What animal does McMurphy compare the other patients to?

chickens at a hen pecking party

How many people die in the novel?

4

What is Chief Bromden's dad's name?

Tee Ah Millatoona

What does Chief's fog symbolize?

insanity

Acute

The acutes are patients who officials believe can still be cured

Chronics

The Chronics are patients who will never be cured

What it means to be "committed to the hospital?

the patients who can not get our of the ward

Who ultinamtely decides when the patients can leave?

Big Nurse

What is McMurphy reason for coming to the metal hospital?

he had a fitght in the bar and police catch him and he tries to be like the insane person so the police push him to the mental hospital

Explain how McMurphy can be viewed as a "Christ like" figure in the novel.

Both of them are help the people fishing

----- McMurphy have 12 fishermans

----- Jesus Christ have 12 Apotles

Both of them they are very helpful

----- McMurphy wants a crown of thorn

----- Jesus has a crown of thorn

When McMuprhy and Jesus died both of their are people still believe

Why to McMurphy and Chief get into a fight with the Nuse's aides during the patient's showers after the fishing trip?

Because when the aids washes for George, he refuse and he stream in the bath room so McMuprhy and Chief come to help him and fight with them.

Why does Bill Bibbit commit suicide?

Because he has sex with Candy but his mother doesn't let him and Big Nurse and Billy's mother is the old friend

What does McMurphy do to Nurse Ratched after Billy commits suicide? What is Nurse Ratched response to McMurphy's actions?

McMurphy tries to kill Big Nurse after Billy Bibbit suicide but he can't , Nurse Ratched's can breathe so she call the blacks aided to hit him and lobotomy him

Why does Chief Bromden kill McMurphy at the end of the novel?

Because McMurphy right now he is crazy and he can't act like the normal people and Chief doesn't want him to suffer.

She wears a uniform and carries a large set of keys

What elements make Nurse Ratched's authority over the men evident when she appears at the beginning of the film?

Jesus

The film draw numerous parallels between McMurphy and which biblical character?

When she rigs the vote over changing television-watching schedules

When does Nurse Ratched think she has beaten McMurphy?

When he pretends to watch the World Series on a blank TV screen

In which episode does McMurphy win a battle with Nurse Ratched?

He smothers McMurphy with a pillow to free his spirit

Why is the Chief so important in the film?

Because he follows McMurphy in rebelling against her influence

Why does Nurse Ratched drive Billy Bibbit to commit suicide?

The triumph of the human spirit

What does One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ultimately hope to depict?

Realism, sometimes called cinéma vérité

As a director, Milos Forman infused the film with what style?

Both his parents died in Nazi death camps during World War II, and the Soviets invaded his homeland of Czechoslovakia in 1968

What experiences with repressive authority did Forman have in his own life?

When a long take shows him in the moment of revelation before the open window

At what point in the film do we understand that McMurphy has sacrificed his freedom?

It warns McMurphy what society can do to a man

Why is the Chief's speech about his father important?

Calm down and go on with their routine

What does Nurse Ratched want the men to do immediately after Billy Bibbit commits suicide?

When he breaks the glass of the nurse's station to get Cheswick's cigarettes

Which of the following is the first climax of McMurphy's confrontational relationship with Nurse Ratched?

A real mental institution in Salem, Oregon

Where was the film shot?

It is spiritual and native American in style, which suggests that macMurphy is symbolically continuing his journey with the Chief.

Why is the music significant when the Chief smothers MacMurphy?

She is threatened by MacMurphy's desire to empower the men as it is a low angle shot of her, depicting her desire for power and also shows her behind a window, separating herself from his vision.

What does the shot of Nurse Ratched watching the basketball game suggest about her?

To show the institutional oppression and lack of freedom physically and mentally of the patients.

Why does Milos Foreman include references to keys, windows, fences and doors?

It interrupts Nurse Ratched's meeting, through making the noise and drawing attention from Billy's interrogation.

Why is MacMurphy's rifling of his deck of cards an act of defiance?

To show that he has been impacted the least by macMurphy's influence and is the most institutionalised by the regime.

Why is harding shot behind wire at the end of the film?