Characters
McMurphy
Bromden's vocab
Nurse
Plot points
100

Who is the narrator?

Bromden

100

What bet does McMurphy make with the other patients?

That he can get underneath the nurse's skin

100

What is the fog?

Where Bromden and the other patient's go to dissociate

100

How does the nurse use the log book to control the patients?

She bribes them to snitch on each other.

100

Which of the patients are admitted to the hospital involuntarily?

McMurphy and Bromden

200

Why is Bromden able to observe everything in the ward?

He pretends to be deaf
200

Where was McMurphy before being moved to the hospital?

A work farm.

200

What is the "combine"

The society of the ward

200

How does the nurse use manipulation on Billy in the end of the novel?

She makes him feel bad about sleeping with the woman in the hospital.  She threatens to tell his mother. 

200

Why does McMurphy call the group therapy sessions a pecking party?

Because the patients are all tearing into each other.

300

What two characters die at the end of the novel?

Billy Bibbit and McMurphy 

300

Why does McMurphy get sent to disturbed the FIRST time

For fighting with the hospital workers

300

What does Bromden mean when he refers to the patients as "big" or "small"

Their confidence

300

How does McMurphy get his final victory over the Nurse in the end?

He attacks her.

300

Why is the fishing trip important to the patients?

It gives them confidence

400

What Character is insecure about his wife?

Harding

400

Why does McMurphy stop rebelling in part 2?

He realizes the nurse can keep him in there for as long as she wants.

400

Why does Bromden use machinery to describe everything?

He worked on machines in world war 2 and has PTSD

400

Why does the nurse let Seafelt give his medication away.

To make an example of him in front of the other patients

400

Why didn't the other patients want to escape with McMurphy at the end of the novel?

They wanted to leave the right way on their own terms.

500

Who dies in the pool?

Cheswick

500

What happens to McMurphy at the end of the novel and why?

Bromden kills him to put him out of his misery

500

Why does McMurphy want to get Bromden "big" again?

To throw the panel to break the glass and escape

500

What do McMurphy's actions against the nurse in the end of the novel suggest about the treatment of women?

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500

What was Bromden's vivid memory in part 3 about?

When white people came to take their land and completely ignored Bromden
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