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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 does Kubler-Ross say we should pay the closest attention to about a terminal patient?
(a) His or her feelings.
(b) His or her family.
(c) His or her fear.
(d) His or her pain.

2. For what did the nun become an advocate?
(a) Social workers in the hospitals.
(b) Patients whose needs were not being met.
(c) Religious rights of terminal patients.
(d) Research of terminal illness.

3. Why is Kubler-Ross so shocked at American's inability to accept death?
(a) Americans are so educated.
(b) Our culture has digressed in this area while advancing in many others.
(c) She did not expect it.
(d) People in Europe handle it much differently.

4. What ironic example of our deluded ideas towards death does Dr, Kubler-Ross give in chapter II?
(a) We understand when others we do not know die but refuse to accept that anyone in our circle could possibly pass away.
(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 can hear stories of accidental deaths and murders every day, but we never expect that to happen to us.
(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.

5. What does Kubler-Ross say will help us examine our own reactions and behaviors?
(a) Spending time with the elderly.
(b) Walking the halls of a hospital.
(c) Reading about the grief process.
(d) Speaking with other people who have deceased family members.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most common reaction to learning of a terminal illness?

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

3. Why does Kubler-Ross feel that our inability to cope with death is such a selfish thing?

4. What has Kubler-Ross and her team done for years that provides comfort for terminal patients?

5. What has taken away a great deal of comfort for those struggling with a terminal illness, according to Kubler-Ross?

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