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 * Study Guide #5**
 * Pages 174-190**

· //One section ends, another begins. Self-sacrifice and healing become the guiding force in MacMurphy’s life. Ratched, however, gets the machine going again.//
 * Introduction**

· //MacMurphy works hard at giving the men their “manhoods” back. Find a passage where the men are becoming whole again and note it here.//
 * Up Close**

 2. What is the advantage, for MacMurphy, in not having the glass? He can just listen in on her conversations and she cannot have all the power. 
 * 1. What does MacMurphy do, now that he has more power? He gets the nurse to agree to allow two women to take him and others to go fishing during the weekend on a boat.

3. How is Basketball good therapy for the inmates? It teaches them to work as a team and to rely on each other to do a good job.  What does it force them to do? To work together  How is it different from the talks? It isn't focused on a certain individual, they are all working together instead of talking about the problems.

4. How did the Chief become deaf?

Why is he getting his hearing back?

5. What are the first words the Chief says?

What does that show about Mack?

How has Mack changed since the first chapter?

6. How does Mack get the Chief to laugh?

Why is laughter powerful?

What is happening to the Ward?

7. How is Mack bigger than the Chief?

Who else had that same size?

8. How does the Chief explain the Combine?

9. Why does he want to touch Mack?

10. How is Mack going to blow the Chief up to full-size?

Why? **