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Pages 129-173**
 * Study Guide #4

· //Part II of the novel begins with the problems of rule. Nurse Ratched works to regain the control she has lost, while McMurphy becomes a full fledged insurrectionist//
 * Introduction**

· //This novel includes many women who work at “emasculating” men. Find one or two paragraphs of a man getting emasculated and summarize them here.//
 * Up Close**

**1. What does the Chief remember happening at the staff meeting? He remembers seeing the nurse not say anything and then all of a sudden change her mind about the whole thing. **


 * What was his role? To wipe the "green" stuff off the walls. **


 * 2. Is Mack "A Napoleon, a Genghis Khan, an Attilla the Hun?" Yes, I think so. **


 * Explain. He is the a figure head, sort of a leader to all the other patients **


 * Who were those men?** They were all leaders. Khan founded the Mongol Empire, Attila founded the Hunnic Empire and Napoleon was a leader of the First French Republic.


 * What did they do? Conquored many places. **


 * 3. How does Ratched manipulate the meeting without saying anything? The people who did the speaking dont ever think of anything on their own, this means that they follow the nurse so when she didn't say anything they thought they were saying what she was thinking. The all of a sudden she wasn't thinking what they thought. that was her manipulation. **


 * What does that say about the other Doctors? They have NO BALLS! **

**4. Complete the quote: "He isn't extraordinary. He is ." what he is.**


 * Is that a positive or negative statement? positive**


 * What would be extraordinary? it makes him strong enough that he would never back down the way that the big nurse would want him to.**


 * 5. What is her final ace in the hole-or Ratched’s ultimate power of McMurphy?**


 * 6. What is the importance of the Dog and the Geese to Chief? the dog was out late at night just to 'see' what the other animals as in the squirels do at night. and the geese reminded him of when he went out hunting for them but never got one.**


 * Where does he see them? he goes and looks out the window and sees the dog sniffing in the squirrel holes outside and sees the geese flying south for the winter**


 * Why is that important?**


 * 7. What does Mack learn at the pool? The lifeguard said something about if your sentenced in jail at least you know when you're going to get out, you have a set date. Where as being in the hospital they can keep telling you over and over again that you aren't 'ready' to go out on your own so you never know when you get to leave.**


 * 8. Complete the quotation: “Damned if he does,__ ”** Damned if you do and damned if you don't. puts a man in one confounded bind.
 * How does that apply to Sefelt? I think they are talking about the medicine dilantin, which helps with the seizures. If you do take it, it rots your gums. but it you don't take it, it makes you have seizures, obviously, and grit your teeth.**


 * What does the medicine do to them? (above anwser)**


 * How does it apply to McMurphy? it's a lose, lose situation.**


 * How is it true for every man on the ward?**


 * 9. How are Ratched and Mrs. Harding similar?**


 * What does Mrs. Harding do to her husband?**


 * 10. How has Mack changed?**


 * What has changed him?**

**Is he thinking for himself or for others?**

He's thinking more for himself because he doesn't want to get in trouble and have EST or a lobotomy from nurse Ratched


 * 11. What are two examples of foreshadowing in this chapter?**

They are afraid to go out into the world on their own
 * 12. Why do the voluntaries stay at the ward?**


 * 13. What are the thoughts the Chief sees running through his mind?**


 * 14. What does the broken glass portend?**


 * What power does Mack have over Ratched?**

He can talk anyone into about anything and everyone likes him like all the other patients and the doctor she is the boss and can make him stay there as long as she wants or prescribe any treatment she wants to him​
 * What power does Ratched have over Mack?**