1. What is the fastest way to strip terminal patients of their dignity?
(a) To continually talk about death.
(b) To treat them as unimportant.
(c) To not allow their family to visit.
(d) To make them beg for what they need.

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

3. To what does Kubler-Ross wish we could return?
(a) A time when mourning was natural and cathartic rather than causing deep anger.
(b) A time when technology was simpler and religion was richer.
(c) A time when Americans were more like Europeans.
(d) A time when death was not feared.

4. What does Kubler-Ross say denial is for most people?
(a) A way to separate one's self from reality.
(b) A motivation to continue finding other diagnoses.
(c) A buffer that allows the patient to mobilize other, less radical defenses.
(d) A defensive device that will speed up the process of death.

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