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The One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Help Page
Items Available:   Crossword Puzzles   Pictures   Study Help   Vocabulary Words   Ken Kesey Bio #1   Ken Kesey Bio #2	Image Source Here	Ken Kesey Quotes:   "Take what you can use and let the rest go by." (2)   "People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense." (3)   "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph." (4)   "The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths." (5)

Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles:

1. Vocabulary Crossword #1 (Puzzle and Clues)

2. Vocabulary Crossword #2 (Puzzle and Clues)

3. Vocabulary Crossword #3 (Puzzle and Clues)

Pictures:

Jack Nicholson as Randall Patrick McMurphy

(Notice that he looks nothing like the novel's description)

Nurse Ratched and Billy Bibbitt

(Louise Fletcher and Brad Dourif)

Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbitt and Danny Devito as Martini

Vincent Schiavelli as Frederickson, William Duell as Sefelt, and Christopher Lloyd as Max Taber

Sydney Lassick as Cheswick along with McMurphy and Chief waiting for shock therapy

McMurphy and Wil Sampson as Chief Bromden

Josip Elic as Bancini gets strapped in by an Orderly

William Redfield as Dale Harding

Dean R. Brooks as Dr. Spivey

Delos V. Smith as Scanlon

Kay Lee as the Night Supervisor

Louise Moritz as Rose

Mimi Sarkisian as Nurse Pilbow

Peter Brocco as Col. Matterson

Alonzo Brown as Orderly Miller

Mwako Cumbuka as Orderly Warren

Nathan George as Orderly Washington

Scatman Crothers as Orderly Turkle

Mews Small as Candy

Vocabulary Words:

1. electroshocktherapy (n) a form of shock therapy in which electric current is applied to the brain

2. acute (adj) having a rapid onset and following a short but severe course

3. chronic (adj) lasting a long time or recurring often OR extremely sharp or severe; intense

4. loony (n) someone not entirely in control of their mental faculties

5. lobotomy (n) a surgical operation in which a lobe of the brain, especially the frontal lobe of the cerebrum, is cut into or across as a treatment for psychosis

6. electroencephalograph (n) an instrument for making electroencephalograms, graphic tracings of minute voltage changes resulting from bioelectric activity in the brain.

7. pinochle (n) any of a family of card games, usually for three or four persons and typically played with a 48-card deck made up of two of every card above the eight, including the ace

8. individuality (n) the quality or state of being individual; singularity

9. conformity (n) action or behavior in correspondence with socially accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws

10. matriarchy (n) government, rule, or domination by women

11. patriarchy (n) government, rule, or domination by men

12. croon (v) to sing or hum in a low, gentle tone; to sing (popular songs) in a soft, sentimental manner

13. paranoid (adj) characterized by extreme suspiciousness, grandiose delusions, or delusions of persecution

14. schizophrenia (n) Any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbance

15. maudlin (adj) foolishly and tearfully or weakly sentimental

16. latrine (n) a toilet, privy, etc. for the use of a large number of people

17. gurney (n) a stretcher or cot on wheels, used in hospitals to move patients

18. convulsion (n) a violent, involuntary contraction or spasm of the muscles

19. Faulknerian (adj) a reference to American writer and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner, known for his fiction that depicts human frailties

20. punitive (adj) inflicting, concerned with, or directed toward punishment

21. leucotomy (n) lobotomy [see #5 above]

22. wheedle (v) to influence or persuade (a person) by flattery, soothing words, coaxing, etc.

23. jounce (v) to shake, jolt, or bounce, as in riding

24. flophouse (n) a very cheap hotel frequented chiefly by indigents

25. keelhaul (v) to haul (a person) down through the water on one side of a ship, under the keel, and up on the other side as a punishment or torture

26. troll (v) to fish with bait or a lure trailed on a line behind a slowly moving boat

27. jetty (n) a kind of wall built out into the water to restrain currents, protect a harbor or pier, etc.

28. vermin (n) various insects, bugs, or small animals regarded as pests because they are destructive, disease-carrying, etc.

29. hallucinate (v) to perceive sights, sounds, etc. and so on that are not actually present

30. ramshackle (adj) loose and rickety; likely to fall to pieces; shaky