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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VII and VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fourth stage of grief?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Denial.
(c) Bargaining.
(d) Depression.

2. When should a doctor discuss death with a terminal patient?
(a) When there is no other option.
(b) Long before it arrives.
(c) When there is a definite timespan.
(d) When family is present to offer support.

3. Who makes up Kubler-Ross's research team?
(a) Some theology students and herself.
(b) Some medical students and herself.
(c) Some psychology students and herself.
(d) Some top-of-the line social workers and herself.

4. What was so different about the dentist's stage of acceptance?
(a) He had truly accepted the idea of dying, yet he still had hope.
(b) He had skipped from denial all the way to acceptance.
(c) He had reached acceptance while his family was stuck in the stage of depression.
(d) He had a false sense of acceptance.

5. Of what does Kubler-Ross think bargaining is a sign?
(a) Irrational fear.
(b) Future suicidal tendencies.
(c) Unresolved guilt.
(d) Past abuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is usually the best way to help angry patients push past their feelings of anger?

2. What does Kubler-Ross say that we are really denying when we refuse to accept a terminal illness in someone we love?

3. About what is the patient in chapter VI most depressed?

4. What does Kubler-Ross say that most American doctors are afraid to do?

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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