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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helped Mrs. S. tremendously with her situation?
(a) Talking about her past.
(b) Making amends with her ex-husband.
(c) Discussing her illness.
(d) Finding good homes for her sons.

2. What does Kubler-Ross say that we are really denying when we refuse to accept a terminal illness in someone we love?
(a) That the bonds of love will last.
(b) Our own mortality.
(c) The hope of an after-life.
(d) Our fear and longing.

3. What bolsters the young girl's family and allows them to be positive?
(a) Their acceptance.
(b) Their state of denial.
(c) Their peace at seeing her so calm about the whole thing.
(d) Their strong religious beliefs.

4. Why was the medical's staff description of the patient in chapter VI so surprising to Kubler-Ross and her team?
(a) He seemed very sweet and accommodating.
(b) He was very respectful and helpful.
(c) He spoke at length about his feelings.
(d) He had many visitors around the clock.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the mother of the very small girl unhappy with the doctors who are treating her?

2. What is the third stage of grief?

3. What does Kubler-Ross say the immediate family of terminal patients experience with their dying loved one?

4. What does the courageous female patient teach Kubler-Ross?

5. What does Kubler-Ross tell the clergy that their tools for helping the terminally ill really are?

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