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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sustains the young girl in chapter X through her illness?
(a) Her amazingly supportive parents.
(b) Her very experienced doctors.
(c) Her chance to discuss her illness with a therapist.
(d) Her faith that her fate is in God's hands.

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

3. How do the young girl's siblings treat her?
(a) With fear and love.
(b) The same as they always have.
(c) With distance and distaste.
(d) With sensitivity and concern.

4. What does Kubler-Ross say is more important than fluids and pain medication for one who is dying?
(a) Handling of legal logistics.
(b) A silent partner to see him or her through.
(c) Faith and hope for a cure.
(d) Patience, friendship, and support.

5. What is the one complaint that the young girl's mother has?
(a) The price of care was exorbitant.
(b) The hospital staff was inattentive.
(c) Her daughter is so young.
(d) She could not take her daughter home to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Kubler-Ross wish we could return?

2. What does the courageous female patient equate with death?

3. For what did the nun become an advocate?

4. What negative effect can come from encouraging a terminal patient?

5. Why do some terminal patients never reach the final stage of grief?

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