59 pages 1 hour read

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

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Part 1, Pages 1-67

1. What psychiatric symptom does the narrator, Chief Bromden, experience?

A) a deep and abiding depression

B) tremendous, unquenchable rage

C) insects crawling under his skin

D) a fog that forms all around him

2. Of what larger entity does Bromden believe the hospital is a part?

A) a nightmare he calls “the Scream”

B) a conspiracy to kill unusual people

C) a Combine that forces conformity

D) a Creature with 100-foot tentacles

3. How does Bromden describe the story he tells?

A) It is the truth even if it didn’t happen.

B) It is a hallucination within his own mind.

C) It is a fiction he wrote as part of his therapy.

D) It is a tale Mack told that Bromden wrote down.

4. What is Nurse Ratched’s ironclad rule?

A) Everyone must be kind to others.

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