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

2. What did Mr. W. arrange for his wife when she reached the stage of acceptance?
(a) A chance to speak with Dr. Kubler-Ross.
(b) A final meeting with her children and grandchildren.
(c) An additional surgery.
(d) A lawyer to make out her will.

3. What has caused us to de-personalize the dying process?
(a) The strict visitation rules at hospitals.
(b) The distance we put between the dying and ourselves.
(c) The taboo of speaking openly about religion.
(d) The high number of machines that are used to prolong life.

4. What is the third stage of grief?
(a) Anger.
(b) Bargaining.
(c) Denial.
(d) Acceptance.

5. What does the fourth stage of grief replace in the terminal patient?
(a) Denial.
(b) Hope.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tends to be of great relief to terminal patients?

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

3. What was so different about the dentist's stage of acceptance?

4. What are the two different forms of depression?

5. What does Kubler-Ross say is more important than fluids and pain medication for one who is dying?

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