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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are doctors primarily trained to do for terminal patients?
(a) Prolong life.
(b) Relieve suffering.
(c) Provide moral and spiritual support.
(d) Ease the passing.

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

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

4. What does Kubler-Ross say that most American doctors are afraid to do?
(a) Lose a patient on their watch.
(b) Tell family members that a loved one is dying.
(c) Admit to a patient that he or she will die.
(d) Accept that they, themselves, could die from an illness.

5. To what other psychological ailment is denial related?
(a) Fear.
(b) Hope.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Shock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Kubler-Ross blame for the increased fear of death and dying?

2. Who finally recognized and diagnosed the nun's disease?

3. Why do we psychologically react more severely to death than the ancient man?

4. To what does Kubler-Ross wish we could return?

5. What does Kubler-Ross say that we are really denying when we refuse to accept a terminal illness in someone we love?

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