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 * Study Guide #3**
 * Pages 83-128**

// · Ratched loses her first battle ever, and manhood is ecstatic.//
 * Introduction**

· //People in general, like the inmates, are afraid of standing up for themselves and would rather hide in a crowd. Find a page or a selection that shows this well and mark it in your book.//
 * Up Close**

**1. What does Mack do early in the morning? He gets up and showers right away. He cannot find tooth paste and so he asks a black boy for it and the black boy says that "its against policy" to give it to him before everyone else. **


 * How does he attract attention? He is walking around with only a towel on and then he says to Miss Ratched that someone took his clothes and didnt give him anything in return. Then he in a way gets a couple black boys in trouble. When he gets his uniform he takes off his towel and everyone thinks hes completly naked but he has his underwear on. **
 * How does he win his bet? On his second day he has to get interviewed by the Dr. and while in the interview they find out "they have alot in common". Then they go to the Group therapy and start taking over pretty much and the nurse has now say in the whole session. **
 * How does this bet show this? He stood up to the Nurse multipule times in this section of the book and that shows that he has the potential to win this bet. **

**2. How did Mack manipulate the doctor? He was talking to the doctor about how there were older people in the ward and how they are hard at hearing. He suggests that they have the music play louder so that everyone can hear it.** And also to make a second day room(game room).


 * Why does the Doctor fall for it? because McMurphy was talking about how he felt bad that the hard hearing older people in the ward couldnt hear so well.**


 * How is the Doctor manipulated by Ratched?**


 * 3. Does Kesey come out and tell you who is speaking through the Monopoly game?**


 * Explain.**


 * How is the Monopoly game better therapy than the talks? They notice things from each other and 'yell' at each other for the things that they are doing instead of the doctor and the nurses telling them.**


 * 4. What gets Mack really mad? Because when he asks if they could switch tv times to watch the game the nurse says no, and no one else sticks to it with him. In the book he said that they were all too 'chicken-shit'.**


 * Why didn’t the men do anything? because they are too 'chicken-shit' to stand up to the nurse in the meeting, or at all. during the meeting they just make up silly stories that 'it would mess up their daily schedule'**


 * Where else (in what other books) have you seen activity like this?**


 * 5. What does Mack teach them in the Tub room?**


 * Does it work?**


 * One critic has said that the men “hate” McMurphy. Why might this event show this?**


 * What does McMurphy force them to do?**

**6. What will happen if the Chief lost himself in the fog?**


 * How does Mack bring the Chief back?**


 * What unusual thing happens to the Chief when Mac brings him back?**


 * 7. What important event does Ratched miss in the voting?**


 * What trick does she pull?**


 * Why might the men have trusted her before?**


 * Why don’t they now?**


 * 8. What happens to her when the men watch TV? When the men watched tv they had to quit cleaning and that caused her to make a big deal out of it so they just ignored her the who time they were yelling. They all just pulled up a chair and sat infront of the blank tv, the whole about watching the world series was just a way of getting the patients to stand up for themselves. **