1950s/1960s
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?
Staff working at the asylum for the Nurse.
Who are the orderlies?
The story's setting.
What is an asylum, ward, or mental institution.
Ken Kesey took this drug as a participant in a CIA experiment.
What is LSD?
The most common form of mental illness in today's society.
What is anxiety? (Annual prevalence among adults = 19%)
An institutional used in the 1950s to treat people with mental health issues.
What is an asylum?
The name of the Nurse who runs the ward.
Who is Nurse Ratched?
The state where the story takes place.
What is Oregon?
The 1950s culture that influenced Ken Kesey.
What is the Beat Generation?
The percentage of adults who experience serious mental health issues in America.
What is 5%.
A controversial treatment for depression and psychosis 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 takes him where?
What is bird hunting with his dad.
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? (around 8%)
The way that mental 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?
The Kesey family makes this food.
What is yogurt?
Percentage of uninsured US adults with mental illness.
What is about 10%.
Being put in a mental health facility whether you want to be there or not.
What is being committed.
The narrator believes the "Big Nurse" has these things in her bag.
What are cogs, wheels, machinery parts, forceps, pliers, porcelain pills, copper wire, etc.
The narrator believes he can escape into this meteorological (weather) phenomenon.
What is fog.