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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comforted the woman who was afraid in chapter IX?
(a) A good lengthy talk about heaven.
(b) A priest who held a confessional with her.
(c) Cremation.
(d) A picture album made by her family.

2. What is a child's main fear before age three?
(a) Death.
(b) Pain.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Separation.

3. What are terminal patients usually upset about when they reach the fourth stage of grief?
(a) Being abandoned by God.
(b) Abandoning their family.
(c) Their unresolved issues.
(d) The realization of loss.

4. What does Kubler-Ross say denial is for most people?
(a) A buffer that allows the patient to mobilize other, less radical defenses.
(b) A defensive device that will speed up the process of death.
(c) A way to separate one's self from reality.
(d) A motivation to continue finding other diagnoses.

5. What ironic example of our deluded ideas towards death does Dr, Kubler-Ross give in chapter II?
(a) We understand when others we do not know die but refuse to accept that anyone in our circle could possibly pass away.
(b) We can hear stories of accidental deaths and murders every day, but we never expect that to happen to us.
(c) We find it unfathomable for someone to go to war and survive on the front lines, only to come home and be killed in a car accident.
(d) We find it unfathomable for someone to survive a horrific car accident, only to come home and be killed by a silly disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was so different about the dentist's stage of acceptance?

2. To what does the author compare the stage of acceptance?

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

4. What kind of terminal patient gets less attention and visits, even from the hospital staff?

5. Over what had the patient in chapter VI been repressing grief?

(see the answer key)

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