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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kubler-Ross think we put so much faith into machines?
(a) It helps us forget our pain.
(b) It helps us deny our mortality.
(c) It gives us a false sense of hope.
(d) It distracts us from the truth.

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

3. How was the patient in chapter VI described by the medical staff?
(a) Uncommunicative.
(b) Condescending.
(c) Angry.
(d) Lonely.

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

5. What is the major discrepancy that exists in almost every case of terminal illness?
(a) What the patient wants and what the doctor is willing to do.
(b) What the patient wants and what the family wants.
(c) What the family wants and what the doctors want.
(d) What the patient wants and what the doctors want.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most effective way to help a depressed patient, according to Kubler-Ross?

2. What is not necessary to do when a patient is unable to accept reality?

3. To whom was the patient in chapter VI not communicating his true feelings?

4. What ironic example of our deluded ideas towards death does Dr, Kubler-Ross give in chapter II?

5. Who finally recognized and diagnosed the nun's disease?

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