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1)What does the Mental ward symbolize as a whole and what do the characters tell us about such a place?
2)What do the Chronics and the Acutes think about each other?
3) What does the Characters think about their experiences with the nurses and outside world?

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1. Why does Kesey use italics often even though most authors do not use it at all? (7)
2. What is Kesey’s purpose in using sentence fragments? (28)
3. Why does the author use dashes in words that do not actually contain them? (51)

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1.  To what is extent does McMurphy really need medical attention for mental illness and what is he not willing to share?
2. Why is the Big Nurse so protective of these patients despite their title just being “Acutes”?
3. What is the meaning of this calendar and why does Kesey elaborate so much on The Big Nurse’s “special glass”?

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1. Why would someone claim that they are crazy? How do they benefit themselves by calling themselves crazy? (41)
2. How can one pretend to be a person that they are not? (18)
3. Why was Peter not wired like the rest of them? What did he do to prevent them from wiring him? If he is not wired, why is he in a mental institution? (48)

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1. How do the members of the hospital not realize the extent of Chief Bromdon's capabilities?
2. Why are the practices of the hospital so inhumane?
3. To what extent do the nurses actually care about the patients? It seems that they treat them as animals.

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1. Why has Kesey chosen someone like Mr. Mcmurphy to be in the mental asylum, who clearly has no psychological issues?

2. What could the outside world be in Kesey’s mind?

3. What is Kesey’s big deal with the management of time within the hospital?

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1.Why does Chief Bromden choose to remain silent and pretend to be deaf, despite appearing to understand everything going on around him? (page 22).
2.What is the purpose for splitting up the ward into three groups of people: the Acutes, Chronics, and Vegetables? (29).
3. To what extent should the nurse be trusted to run the meetings and contain this much power in the ward? Does she care about their futures?(56).

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1. McMurphy and Harding have very similar personalities; therefore, how will the two of them interact with each other?
2. Will anyone ever catch on that Chief Bromden is actually not deaf and if someone does, what will happen?
3. McMurphy seems to be angering both the patients and the workers, so will anyone lose their cool with him?

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1. To what extent is Kesey able to convey the emotions of his characters through the use of his long and dense sentences (6).
2. Compare the more elegant/formal style of imagery used in the Great Gatsby to the style Kesey uses (23).
3. How do the question marks add to the tone of  the passage (45)?

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1. Page 22- Why would Chief want to act deaf and dumb and how does this affect his thoughts?
2. Page 24-25-Is the idea of a manipulator a comment on McMurphy, or the whole establishment as a whole?
3. Page 50-Does the clock represent the people on the ward?

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1. What is the purpose of the drawings in the book?

2. why do the nurses seem to want so much communication, but are seen as mean and forceful by the patients? Follow up: if it was told by a different perspective, would they be portrayed differently?

3. why such a big emphasis on race?-(black boys and nurses pg 26)

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1. To what extent do the nurses and black boys not care about the well being of the patients? (30-32).
2. What makes Kesey hypersexualize scenes? (32-33)

3. Why would McMurphy put emphasis on the term psychopathic? Is it because he does not believe that he is a psychopathic? Could he have convinced himself that he isn’t a psychopath? (Kesey 42).

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1. Why does Kesey use such harsh language, especially in descriptions and adjectives?
2. To what extent does the Chief belong in the asylum?
3. To what extent is the Big Nurse like the warden of the asylum?

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1. What will the nurses do to Taber for questioning the pills?
2. What will happen when they realize Bromen is deaf?
3. What will McMurphy do to  Chief Bromen now that he is the real chief?

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1. Why do they call the Nurse the Big Nurse?
2. What was the significance of the Big Nurse not talking on the microphone when the patients are being called for medications (Pg. 30)
3. What significance does the sexualization of the nurses have?

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Compare the Chief and McMurphy? How do they put up a front in this hospital?
Is the mental hospital only making things worse for the patients?
Why is Ms. Ratched such an important character, what does she represent?

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1. Why does Kesey keep bringing up the man who gives tours of the ward and focusing on his clammy hands clapping together? (34)
2. If all of the personnel in the hospital know that McMurphy is faking so he doesn’t have to go to jail, why are they admitting him and allowing him to disturb their peace? (42)
3. Why does Kesey chose to write so informally at times?

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1. Who decides who is sane and who is not sane?
2. To what extent are the patients illnesses real? Can they be cured?
3. For what reasons would Chief act deaf and dumb even though he is fully capable of talking and hearing?

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1. What is so special about the acutes that the doctors feel that they are important for the “cure”?

2. Why does Chief think that some of the pills contain wires and electronics?
3. What is wrong with the Big Nurse?