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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When should a doctor discuss death with a terminal patient?
(a) When there is a definite timespan.
(b) When family is present to offer support.
(c) When there is no other option.
(d) Long before it arrives.

2. Who finally recognized and diagnosed the nun's disease?
(a) A patient with the same disease.
(b) She did, after reading about it.
(c) Her psychiatrist.
(d) Another nurse in the hospital she at which she worked.

3. What are the two different forms of depression?
(a) Theological and reactive.
(b) Reactive and preparatory.
(c) Moral and theoretical.
(d) Active and passive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the terminal patient interviewed in chapter VI?

2. What did the daughter of the patient in chapter IX do that brought her mother much comfort after she had quit her job?

3. How did Mrs. W.'s husband see her acceptance of death?

4. Why was it so hard on Mr. Y. to be restricted in his visits to his wife?

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

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