This medical procedure uses a "brief electrical stimulus" to induce cerebral seizure under "controlled conditions."
What is Electro-Shock Therapy (ECT)?
100
This term was used by Colonial Americans to label the mentally disturbed, whom they believed to be possessed by the devil after being born under the light of a full moon.
What is a "lunatic"?
100
Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital was originally designed and built for a capacity of this many patients.
What is 2000?
100
Working this job helped to inform Kesey's writing of the novel.
What is the graveyard shift at a mental ward?
100
The novel is narrated by this type of character.
What is an inmate of a mental ward?
200
This medical procedure used an ice pick and a carpenter's hammer through the eye socket, raking back and forth over brain tissue, to destroy pre-frontal cortex connections.
What is a Lobotomy?
200
In the 19th century, this system of caretaking was developed to account for human rights and individualized therapy for mentally disturbed patients.
What is "Moral Management"?
200
The hospital at Marlboro was opened in this year.
What is 1931?
200
In 1959, Kesey volunteered for this type of experiment while working at his novel-inspiring job.
What are hallucinogenic drug experiments?
200
Kesey's novel is considered this type of literary genre.
What is a grim satire?
300
This man was well-known for his "Lobotomobile," delivering on-the-go trans-orbital lobotomies in large quantities.
Who is Walter J. Freeman?
300
This man was responsible for developing the "model plan" for the typical mental institutional structure, which consisted of a large central building and two enormous "wing" buildings where the more severely "insane" were housed in near-isolation.
Who is Kirkbride?
300
By 1953, these two problems gave rise to issues such as amoebic dysentery, fire hazards, tuberculosis, and serious nursing staff shortages.
What is overcrowding and under-budgeting?
300
Kesey voluntarily submitted himself to this type of widespread "treatment" in real-life.
What is electroshock therapy?
300
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is published in this year.
What is 1962?
400
This 1928 use of electric shock had been the "scenario of inspiration" for the development of electro-shock therapy in mental institutions.
What is the use of electrical shock to stun pigs at slaughter?
400
Institutionalization occurred at an especially high rate during these two decades, during which the novel is set.
What are the 1940's and 1950's?
400
Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital was finally closed in this year, due to a push towards deinstitutionalization.
What is 1958?
400
Ken Kesey was under the influence of this illicit drug as he wrote the novel.
What is LSD?
400
This actor plays Randall Patrick McMurphy in the 1975 film version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Who is Jack Nicholson?
500
After the public shock and disgust with lobotomies and shock therapy, mental hospitals began using this type of drug to achieve the same brain-deadening effects by use of a simple pill?
What are psychotropic drugs?
500
Many of the treatment methods utilized in mental institutions attempted to achieve this effect when administered to those who were considered schizophrenic or out of control?
What is behavior control?
500
Kesey had been raised on farms in these two states.
What are the states of Oregon and Colorado?
500
This is the name of the place where Ken Kesey worked, which both inspired and informed his writing of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
What is Veterans' Administration Hospital.
500
This hospital is where the 1975 film version of the novel had been filmed.