Study+Guide+7


 * Study Guide #7 **
 * Pages 218-241 **

// · Like many novels, this story moves towards its inevitable and painful conclusion. //
 * Introduction **

· // MacMurphy’s ultimate triumph comes from the men. They are now ready to join the world, for better or for worse. Find three or four paragraphs that show this and note them here. //
 * Up Close **


 * 1. How does the nurse begin to successfully sway the men?

Is she wrong?

When did MacMurphy start to do stuff for the men?

What is the best answer the men give?

2. What is the Nurse implying about McMurphy?

How does Harding refute it?

Is Harding right ?

3. What are the black boys going to do in the tub room?

Is what the black boys do to George therapeutic?

Why is it important that Washington is clothed and Mack is naked?

Why does Mack have a "helpless, cornered despair" in his voice?

Describe Mack's fighting style.

Is it like his personality?

4. What does the tall guy with the wire say? (Please quote )

This is a version of a very famous quote from the bible. What is the original quotation?

What does that make McMurphy?

5. What happens to the Chief during the night?

What does that guy want?

How does Mack have the ward above him like that?

How does he have a hundred or a thousand faces there?

6. What are the conditions if Mack isn't to get shock?

Why can’t he take the deal?

How is this similar to Sefelt’s problem earlier?

7. Who is Mack quoting from on the table?

How is McMurphy similar to Christ?

What will happen to Mack at the end of the book, following the allusion?

What will happen to the men?

8. After the Words AIR RAID on 238, why does the narration get confused? **