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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What creates the greatest amount of stress for a terminal patient?
(a) Losing control of one's environment.
(b) Being a useless member of society.
(c) Feeling that they are abandoning loved ones.
(d) Looking death in the face.

2. How do the young girl's siblings treat her?
(a) With distance and distaste.
(b) With sensitivity and concern.
(c) With fear and love.
(d) The same as they always have.

3. What does hope do for terminal patients, according to Kubler-Ross?
(a) Aggravates the doctors.
(b) Intimidates non-terminal patients.
(c) Nourishes the soul.
(d) Holds off acceptance.

4. About whom is the courageous female patient in chapter X worried?
(a) Her family.
(b) The doctors.
(c) Herself.
(d) The woman in the bed next to her.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Kubler-Ross say will help us examine our own reactions and behaviors?

3. Why is the mother of the very small girl in chapter X so nervous about revealing to her daughter the true nature of her illness?

4. What is not necessary to do when a patient is unable to accept reality?

5. What does Kubler-Ross state that most terminal patients hope to be?

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