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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sustains the young girl in chapter X through her illness?
(a) Her faith that her fate is in God's hands.
(b) Her very experienced doctors.
(c) Her amazingly supportive parents.
(d) Her chance to discuss her illness with a therapist.

2. Who are described by Kubler-Ross as the "most desperate of all'?
(a) The spouses of terminal patients.
(b) Terminal patients who provoke others to anger.
(c) Terminal patients with no religion in their lives.
(d) Terminal patients with no supportive family.

3. What did the daughter of a patient in chapter IX do when her mother became ill?
(a) She read all the books she could find on the illness.
(b) She quit her job and stayed with her mother constantly.
(c) She moved to a different town and refused to speak to her mother.
(d) She fought with the nurses to treat her mother better.

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

5. What did Mr. W. arrange for his wife when she reached the stage of acceptance?
(a) A lawyer to make out her will.
(b) A final meeting with her children and grandchildren.
(c) A chance to speak with Dr. Kubler-Ross.
(d) An additional surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what was Mrs. S. suffering?

2. Why do most patients enter the third stage of grief?

3. What does the courageous female patient equate with death?

4. Who has become like a sister to Mrs. S. through all of her trials?

5. Who makes up Kubler-Ross's research team?

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