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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Kubler-Ross and her team done for years that provides comfort for terminal patients?
(a) Instruct doctors and nurses in the proper ways to care for terminal patients.
(b) Donate money to a charity for research on terminal illnesses.
(c) Allow patients to speak and be careful listeners.
(d) Hold seminars for family members of deceased patients.

2. What usually follows denial in the grieving process?
(a) Anger.
(b) Hope.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Despair.

3. What kind of terminal patient gets less attention and visits, even from the hospital staff?
(a) A patient close to death.
(b) An angry patient.
(c) A patient with a contagious disease.
(d) A patient with no family.

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

5. 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 fear and longing.
(c) Our own mortality.
(d) The hope of an after-life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What terminal disease does the nun in chapter IV have?

2. What finally allows the nun to come to terms with her anger?

3. With what concept is a patient in denial usually really trying to deal?

4. From whom does Kubler-Ross say we should never hide the truth of death?

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

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