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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are doctors primarily trained to do for terminal patients?
(a) Prolong life.
(b) Provide moral and spiritual support.
(c) Ease the passing.
(d) Relieve suffering.

2. What is the first stage of the grieving process?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hope.
(d) Denial.

3. How does Kubler-Ross say Americans view death?
(a) As the end of hope.
(b) As a reason to pull away from people we love in order to avoid pain.
(c) As a negative and malicious thing that takes our loved ones away.
(d) As an ending and cessation.

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

5. Why do we psychologically react more severely to death than the ancient man?
(a) We have not been taught the correct coping process.
(b) The life of ancient man was not pleasant, and death was an escape.
(c) The ancient man had greater faith.
(d) We have many more means of defending ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Kubler-Ross think bargaining is a sign?

2. What has taken away a great deal of comfort for those struggling with a terminal illness, according to Kubler-Ross?

3. What has caused us to fear a violent and catastrophic death, according to Kubler-Ross?

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

5. What usually accompanies depression in the terminally ill patient?

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