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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is usually the best way to help angry patients push past their feelings of anger?
(a) Giving them time and space.
(b) Recording them, and making them listen to themselves.
(c) Talking to them.
(d) Yelling with them.

2. What is one thing that Kubler-Ross does NOT say terminal patients get angry about?
(a) Their family for writing them off as already dead.
(b) The world for continuing on without them.
(c) The hospital staff for being well.
(d) Themselves for getting sick.

3. What does Kubler-Ross say the immediate family of terminal patients experience with their dying loved one?
(a) The fear of death.
(b) The loss of life-force.
(c) The five stages of grief.
(d) The rollercoaster of hope and despair.

4. What does Dr. Kubler-Ross blame for the increased fear of death and dying?
(a) Loss of religion.
(b) Misplaced priorities.
(c) Modern technology.
(d) Poor communication.

5. What do most people do to cheer terminal patients that often makes the depression worse?
(a) Describe the family doing well without them.
(b) Speak extensively of religious beliefs.
(c) Allow time for contemplative silence.
(d) Visit often for long lengths of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tends to be of great relief to terminal patients?

2. What does the fourth stage of grief replace in the terminal patient?

3. From where had Mr. Y come?

4. Why do some terminal patients never reach the final stage of grief?

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

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