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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fastest way to strip terminal patients of their dignity?
(a) To not allow their family to visit.
(b) To continually talk about death.
(c) To treat them as unimportant.
(d) To make them beg for what they need.

2. How do children at age three view death?
(a) Natural.
(b) Permanent.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Temporary.

3. Why was it so hard on Mr. Y. to be restricted in his visits to his wife?
(a) He did not trust the doctors.
(b) He had nowhere to go for the rest of the day.
(c) He was afraid she would die without him.
(d) He and his wife had been very close.

4. Of what is non-communication from the family an indication?
(a) The family's anger.
(b) The family's denial.
(c) The family's rejection.
(d) The family's guilty feelings.

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 doctors want.
(c) What the patient wants and what the family wants.
(d) What the family wants and what the doctors want.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of terminal patient gets less attention and visits, even from the hospital staff?

2. What terminal disease does the nun in chapter IV have?

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

4. Why should we never give up on terminal patients?

5. When should a doctor discuss death with a terminal patient?

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