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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Schwartz explains that one may love their family while also feeling what other emotion?
(a) Sadness.
(b) A stronger love than usual.
(c) Strong dislike.
(d) Indifference.

2. Schwartz tells the story that he regrets being mean towards whom?
(a) A colleague.
(b) A close, family friend.
(c) His father.
(d) His wife.

3. As described in Chapter 2, ______ helps Schwartz deal with his disease.
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Happy movies.
(c) Humor.
(d) His grandchildren.

4. Schwartz stresses the importance of coming to terms with __________.
(a) The past.
(b) Your own prognosis.
(c) Declining health.
(d) The future.

5. While in a therapy session, Schwartz volunteers to act out what scene?
(a) His own death.
(b) A scene from his mother's death.
(c) A scene from the loss of his child.
(d) The happiness moment of his life.

6. Schwartz has a breakdown nearly how long after the most tragic event of his life?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 25 years.

7. Schwartz recognizes that _____ are associated with the more difficult periods of the disease.
(a) Periods of silence.
(b) Periods of deep depression.
(c) Glimpses of hope.
(d) Emotional patterns.

8. According to Schwartz, what is the effect of negative feelings?
(a) Little effect.
(b) Physical and mental illnesses.
(c) Physical illness.
(d) Mental illness.

9. Where did Schwartz teach?
(a) Ohio State University.
(b) Brandeis University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) UCLA.

10. Schwartz struggles most with loss of what natural body function?
(a) Arm function.
(b) Memory.
(c) Mobility.
(d) Digestion.

11. When does acceptance occur, according to Schwartz?
(a) Immediately.
(b) Not immediately.
(c) It never occurs.
(d) Within a few days.

12. Chapter 5 concerns the importance of holding on to ______.
(a) Loved ones.
(b) The past.
(c) Your intelligence.
(d) The future.

13. Grief is what type of an emotion?
(a) Useless.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Natural.

14. How long was Schwartz a professor?
(a) Two decades.
(b) Four decades.
(c) Five decades.
(d) Three decades.

15. In Chapter 4, Schwartz explains that one's feelings are going to become _______.
(a) Contradictory.
(b) Stable.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Unhealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When seeking help with the disease, Schwartz finally decided to talk to whom?

2. Schwartz explains that one must accept their difficulties like a(n) _______.

3. Presumably, what occurrence will be counteracted by the peace one cultivates?

4. What is the second vital step that Schwartz describes in Chapter 1?

5. Schwartz explains that one may want what occurrence to happen?

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