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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 does the fourth stage of grief replace in the terminal patient?
(a) Anger.
(b) Denial.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Hope.

2. Who causes the nun to examine her faith?
(a) A Jewish man.
(b) Another nun.
(c) A Methodist pastor.
(d) A Catholic priest.

3. Who are described by Kubler-Ross as the "most desperate of all'?
(a) Terminal patients who provoke others to anger.
(b) Terminal patients with no supportive family.
(c) Terminal patients with no religion in their lives.
(d) The spouses of terminal patients.

4. What has caused us to de-personalize the dying process?
(a) The strict visitation rules at hospitals.
(b) The taboo of speaking openly about religion.
(c) The high number of machines that are used to prolong life.
(d) The distance we put between the dying and ourselves.

5. 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 understand when others we do not know die but refuse to accept that anyone in our circle could possibly pass away.
(c) We find it unfathomable for someone to survive a horrific car accident, only to come home and be killed by a silly disease.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do most patients enter the third stage of grief?

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

3. What do we need to strengthen the most in ourselves, according to Kubler-Ross?

4. What does Kubler-Ross say usually helps a great deal in the depression stage of grief?

5. What is at the core of Kubler-Ross's studies on death and dying?

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