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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through III and IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what did the nun become an advocate?
(a) Social workers in the hospitals.
(b) Research of terminal illness.
(c) Patients whose needs were not being met.
(d) Religious rights of terminal patients.

2. Who finally recognized and diagnosed the nun's disease?
(a) Another nurse in the hospital she at which she worked.
(b) Her psychiatrist.
(c) She did, after reading about it.
(d) A patient with the same disease.

3. What do some terminal patients never psychologically do before they die?
(a) Arrange their worldy things.
(b) Accept the reality of their upcoming death.
(c) Make amends with their family members.
(d) Find peace in their souls.

4. What is the first stage of the grieving process?
(a) Anger.
(b) Denial.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Hope.

5. What does Kubler-Ross say will help us examine our own reactions and behaviors?
(a) Reading about the grief process.
(b) Speaking with other people who have deceased family members.
(c) Walking the halls of a hospital.
(d) Spending time with the elderly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kubler-Ross feel that our inability to cope with death is such a selfish thing?

2. How does Kubler-Ross say others should react to the denial of a terminal patient?

3. With what concept is a patient in denial usually really trying to deal?

4. What does Kubler-Ross think doctors should do for terminal patients?

5. What has caused us to de-personalize the dying process?

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