1950s/1960s
The name of the treatment used to remove a part of a brain
What is a Lobotomy?
The major forms of Mental Health treatment used in modern times.
What is support or therapy?
The word "cuckoo" in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, refers to what kind of animal?
What is a bird?
The name the narrator uses to describe the people who work at the asylum for the Nurse.
Who are the orderlies?
The place the story begins.
What is a ward or a mental institution.
Ken Kesey took this drug as a participant in a study.
What is LSD?
The most common example of Mental Illness in today's society
What is anxiety? (Annual prevalence among adults = 19%)
An institutional system used in the 1950s to treat people with mental health issues.
What is the asylum system?
The name of the Nurse who runs the ward.
Who is Nurse Ratched?
The state in which the story takes place
What is Oregon?
Ken Kesey was influenced by what 1950's culture?
What is the Beat Generation or Beat Culture.
The percentage of adults who experience serious mental health issues in America.
What is about 5%.
A controversial mental health treatment used mostly in the 1950s and 1960s.
What is EST or Electroshock Therapy?
The large half Native American man who pretends to be deaf and dumb.
Who is "Chief" or "Broom" Bromden?
The narrator's first flashback take him where?
What is bird hunting with his dad.
Though best known for his literary work and other drug-referenced exploits, in college Ken Kesey was a fantastic athlete in this sport.
What is wrestling?
The second most common mental health issue in America.
What is major depression? (Annual prevalence among adults = 8%)
The way that ental illness is viewed in modern society
OPEN ENDED QUESTION - DISCUSS
The mental health condition most likely affecting the narrator?
What is schizophrenia?
Two obvious animal symbols already revealed in the first chapter.
What are birds and dogs?
Yogurt made by the Kesey family can be found in what local store that smells like old people?
What is Natural Grocers (Natty G)
Percentage of uninsured US adults with mental illness.
What is about 10%.
When "the system" puts you in a mental health facility whether you want to be there or not.
What is being committed.
The narrator believes what kinds of items are found in the "Big Nurse's" bag.
What are cogs, wheels, machinery parts, forceps, pliers, porcelain pills, copper wire, etc.
The narrator believes he can escape into this meteorological phenomenon.
What is "the fog."