Cuckoo’s Quiz | English Theatre Frankfurt

Cuckoo’s Quiz

1. What animals does McMurphy compare the patients to?
Wolves
Chickens
Rabbits
Pigs

2. Which of the following symbolizes Bromden’s insanity?
The flock of geese
The loud music
The monopoly board
The fog machine

3. What is McMurphy’s first complaint to Nurse Ratched?
That the bathrooms are dirty
That the music is played too loudly
That he has no privacy
That he cannot smoke the cigarettes he bought

4. What is McMurphy’s excuse for breaking through the glass of the Nurses’ Station?
Voices in his head told him to
The patients bet him he would not do it
The glass was so clean he did not see it
He tripped

5. What punishment do McMurphy and Bromden receive for fighting with the aides?
They have to give up card games in the tub room
They have to clean the latrines
They are given lobotomies
They are given electroshock therapy

6. What does McMurphy do to Nurse Ratched after Billy commits suicide?
She punches him in the face
She rips open his shirt and strangles him
She shoots him
She calls him vulgar names to his face

7. How does Chief Bromden leave the hospital?
He leaves with Candy and Sandy through the window
He checks himself out
He makes Doctor Spivey drive him away
He breaks through a window and runs away

8. Who eventually kills McMurphy?
Nurse Ratched
McMurphy commits suicide
Doctor Spivey
Bromden

9. The mental patients are divided into two groups. What are these groups called?
Males and Females
Cured and Uncured
Acutes and Chronics
Shirts and Skins

10. Which two medical treatments are sometimes given to a patient if he rebels?
Hypnotherapy, trepanation
Electroshock, lobotomy
EEG, lobotomy
Electroshock, trepanation

11. How do the other patients describe Nurse Ratched to McMurphy?
As warm and welcoming
As weak
As all-powerful
As bureaucratic

12. Who is the narrator of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
McMurphy
Billy Bibbit
Nurse Ratched
Chief Bromden

13. What is Chief Bromden’s nickname in the hospital?
Chief Bromide
Chief Basketball
Chief Broom
Chief Brush

14. What does everyone in the hospital believe about Chief Bromden?
He is faking illness
He’s strong and violent
He is small
He’s deaf and dumb

15. How does McMurphy describe the meeting in which Harding is verbally attacked by the other patients?
A pecking party
A pig pen
A punishment circle
A pain party

16. What does Nurse Ratched use to assert his power in the staff meeting?
Silence
Furious rants
Calm reasoning
Clever invective

17. After the success of the film adaptation, what actor became forever associated with McMurphy?
Robert Redford
Jack Nicolson
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro

18. What kind of party does McMurphy throw in the ward?
Techno
Pajama
80's
Poker

19. What bet does McMurphy make with the other patients?
That he can make Nurse Ratched lose his temper within a week
That he can get the patients out of their chores
That his favorite team will win the World Series
That he’ll be able to escape from the hospital

20. What happens to Billy Bibbit?
He is released from the hospital
He is moved to the Disturbed Ward
His classification changes from Acute to Chronic
He dies in an apparent suicide

21. What does McMurphy arrange for Billy Bibbit?
Electroshock therapy
A date with Nurse Ratched
A date with a prostitute named Candy Starr
Swimming lessons

22. How is Doctor Spivey controlled by Nurse Ratched?
He and his wife are good friends
He knows he is addicted to morphine and he is blackmailing him
He provides him with sexual favors
He provides him with morphine for his addiction

23. What does Harding mean when he confesses to McMurphy that she is different?
She is a Republican
She is homosexual
She is insane
She is psychic

24. Why does Billy Bibbit commit suicide?
He discovers he is a Chronic
He discovers that Nurse Ratched won’t sign his release
He feels betrayed by McMurphy’s conformity
He has learned his wife is unfaithful

25. Why is Billy Bibbit in the hospital?
He has attempted suicide
He has threatened a doctor
He is afraid of the opposite sex
He thinks he is famous

26. Who is the author of the novel on which the film is based?
Agatha Christie
J. K. Rawling
Ken Kesey
Sidney Sheldon

27. What year did the film version win the Academy Award?
1968
1972
1975
1982

28. On his first morning on the ward, McMurphy does something simple that shocks the other patients. What?
She sings
She picks a fight with an aide
She sleeps in
She kisses Nurse Ratched

29. McMurphy gets herself commited to get out of her sentence on the prison work farm. On what charge was she convicted?
Vagrancy
Statutory rape
Battery
Drunkeness

30. What does the Chief call the huge conspiracy that controls everything?
The 'Man'
The Conspiracy
The Black Iron Prison
The Combine

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