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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are doctors primarily trained to do for terminal patients?
(a) Prolong life.
(b) Provide moral and spiritual support.
(c) Relieve suffering.
(d) Ease the passing.

2. The author says, "We should speak as openly about death as we do about... " what?
(a) Our emotions in other areas.
(b) The expectation of a new baby.
(c) The beauties of nature.
(d) What we did at work that day.

3. What is a child's main fear before age three?
(a) Separation.
(b) Pain.
(c) Death.
(d) Hunger.

4. What are terminal patients usually upset about when they reach the fourth stage of grief?
(a) Being abandoned by God.
(b) Abandoning their family.
(c) The realization of loss.
(d) Their unresolved issues.

5. From what was Mrs. S. suffering?
(a) Hodgkin's.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Parkinson's.
(d) ALS.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do children at age three view death?

2. Of what does chapter X primarily consist?

3. What do some men do when their wives fall ill to a terminal illness?

4. Why is the mother of the very small girl in chapter X so nervous about revealing to her daughter the true nature of her illness?

5. What comforted the woman who was afraid in chapter IX?

(see the answer key)

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