One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Film) Quizzes

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film) Quiz

1 Who is the author of the novel on which the film is based?
Milos Forman

Ken Kesey

Jack Kerouac

Kirk Douglas
2 Who plays McMurphy in the film?
Jon Voight

Jack Nicholson

Kirk Douglas

Michael Douglas
3 What is Dr. Spivey holding in the picture on his desk?
A trophy

A stethoscope

A 30 pound fish

A lobster
4 Chief Bromden is alleged to be:
Blind

Deaf and mute

A very good swimmer

Homosexual
5 What do the men in the ward vote on?
Bedtime

Watching the World Series

Where to go on a recreational trip

Who is the ward president
6 What image is on McMurphy's playing card?
A photo of Mickey Mantle

A picture of a clothed woman

A cuckoo

A picture of a naked woman
7 Why does Billy Bibbit kill himself?
Nurse Ratched says he has to leave the mental hospital

Nurse Ratched shames him for sleeping with Candy and threatens to tell his mother

McMurphy makes fun of him for being sexually inexperienced

Nurse Ratched shames him for stuttering and tells him he will never get better
8 What is the style of the film?
Horror

Confessional/documentary-style

Cinema verite/realism

Suspense
9 Which famous actor played Martini?
Jack Nicholson

Christopher Lloyd

Danny DeVito

Joe Pesci
10 What does McMurphy tell the man who catches them stealing the boat from the docks?
That they are all professional sailors

That they are all mental health professionals from the hospital

That they know the owner of the boat

The truth that they are all patients from the hospital
11 Who suggests that McMurphy stay in the ward indefinitely?
Nurse Ratched

Cheswick

Washington, the orderly

Dr. Spivey
12 When Nurse Ratched will not turn on the World Series, what does McMurphy do?
Bet the men that he can lift the fountain

Pretend there is a game on television and narrate it like a sportscaster

Break the television

Strangle Nurse Ratched
13 Which actress plays Nurse Ratched
Gena Rowlands

Louise Fletcher

Lily Tomlin

Ellen Burstyn
14 What does Chief reveal in his speech to McMurphy?
That alcoholism is a mental illness

That alcoholism is a pervasive problem in the Native American community

That society has repressed his father and turned him into an alcoholic

That his father had him committed to the hospital
15 What is the main difference between the novel and the film?
The novel is told from Chief's perspective

The novel is told from McMurphy's perspective

The novel is told from Nurse Ratched's perspective

Nurse Ratched and McMurphy have an affair in the book
16 Where was the film shot?
Rural Maine

A real mental institution in Salem, Oregon

At Milos Forman's home

At a studio in Hollywood
17 How does McMurphy climb the fence to steal the bus?
The men vote to let McMurphy drive the bus

McMurphy bribes Turkle

McMurphy punches one of the orderlies

Chief lifts him up over the fence
18 What is Ratched's personal connection to Billy?
She is his mother

They were lovers

She knows his mother

She was his third grade teacher
19 How does McMurphy try to reason with Spivey in their first meeting?
By telling him that he is not insane, he just needs a little therapy

By justifying statutory rape as something that any man would do in his position

By offering to work as an orderly at the hospital

By railing against the American legal system
20 What team sport does McMurphy teach the men to play?
Baseball

Volleyball

Basketball

Soccer
21 When we first see Nurse Ratched leading group therapy, what group activity is she leading with the men?
Stretching

Yoga

Breathing exercises

Tai chi
22 How does McMurphy bribe Turkle?
By offering to have Rose spend time with him

By giving him marijuana

By giving him money

By offering him a job
23 Who plays Turkle?
Danny DeVito

Scatman Crothers

Danny Glover

Richard Pryor
24 Why does McMurphy say he was sent to the hospital?
Broke out of prison farm

"Fighting and fucking" too much

Booze and gambling

Stole money from the guards
25 How does Taber taunt Harding?
Talks about sleeping with his wife

Suggests that he is not actually mentally ill

Implies he is gay

Takes his cigarettes

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