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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many family members has the patient in chapter VI seen die in a short amount of time?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

3. What tends to be of great relief to terminal patients?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Diligence.

4. How did some of the inattentive nurses respond to Kubler-Ross's seminars?
(a) They were motivated to report the doctors who had been so callous.
(b) They were offended at having their actions judged.
(c) They worked together to write a new manual specifically for nurses.
(d) They became strong advocates of her work and now teach her seminars.

5. With whom do most terminal patients bargain?
(a) Their family.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Their doctor.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What do most terminal patients promise to do while in the third stage of grief?

5. Why is the mother of the very small girl in chapter X so nervous about revealing to her daughter the true nature of her illness?

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