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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 is not necessary to do when a patient is unable to accept reality?
(a) Moving on with the necessary items.
(b) Talking about the terminal nature of his or her disease.
(c) Working to prolong his or her life.
(d) Letting him or her remain in denial.

2. What creates the greatest amount of stress for a terminal patient?
(a) Being a useless member of society.
(b) Losing control of one's environment.
(c) Feeling that they are abandoning loved ones.
(d) Looking death in the face.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kubler-Ross say others should react to the denial of a terminal patient?

2. To what does Kubler-Ross wish we could return?

3. What has caused us to de-personalize the dying process?

4. What do some terminal patients never psychologically do before they die?

5. How does Kubler-Ross say Americans view death?

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