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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the biggest relief to an angry patient?
(a) Suppressing his or her feelings until they go away.
(b) Writing his or her feelings.
(c) Being separated from people for a time.
(d) Expressing his or her anger.

3. What does Kubler-Ross say that we are really denying when we refuse to accept a terminal illness in someone we love?
(a) Our fear and longing.
(b) That the bonds of love will last.
(c) The hope of an after-life.
(d) Our own mortality.

4. What negative effect can come from encouraging a terminal patient?
(a) Depresses him or her.
(b) Disrupts the process of preparing for death.
(c) Creates despair and hopelessness.
(d) Makes him or her feel guilty for not being able to endure.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was the medical's staff description of the patient in chapter VI so surprising to Kubler-Ross and her team?

3. Who makes up Kubler-Ross's research team?

4. What does the fourth stage of grief replace in the terminal patient?

5. What does Kubler-Ross say will help us examine our own reactions and behaviors?

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