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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whom does Kubler-Ross say we should never hide the truth of death?
(a) The loved ones.
(b) Children.
(c) The patient.
(d) Anyone.

2. What terminal disease does the nun in chapter IV have?
(a) Lung cancer.
(b) Hodgkin's disease.
(c) ALS.
(d) Parkinson's disease.

3. What is the major discrepancy that exists in almost every case of terminal illness?
(a) What the patient wants and what the family wants.
(b) What the patient wants and what the doctors want.
(c) What the patient wants and what the doctor is willing to do.
(d) What the family wants and what the doctors want.

4. What kind of terminal patient gets less attention and visits, even from the hospital staff?
(a) A patient with a contagious disease.
(b) A patient with no family.
(c) An angry patient.
(d) A patient close to death.

5. What does Kubler-Ross think doctors should do for terminal patients?
(a) Provide moral and spiritual support.
(b) Relieve suffering.
(c) Prolong life.
(d) Ease the passing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tends to be of great relief to terminal patients?

2. What do most people do to cheer terminal patients that often makes the depression worse?

3. To what other psychological ailment is denial related?

4. What has Kubler-Ross and her team done for years that provides comfort for terminal patients?

5. Over what had the patient in chapter VI been repressing grief?

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