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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What creates the greatest amount of stress for a terminal patient?
(a) Being a useless member of society.
(b) Looking death in the face.
(c) Losing control of one's environment.
(d) Feeling that they are abandoning loved ones.

2. Who were the doctors of the patients who did not request the seminars with Kubler-Ross and her team?
(a) The doctors who were against having Kubler-Ross give her seminars.
(b) The doctors who were against most outside visitors.
(c) The doctors who allowed family to visit all the time.
(d) The doctors who took the time to speak to their patients about death.

3. About what was Mr. J. angry?
(a) The slow process of his death.
(b) His family's lack of support.
(c) The lack of a cure for his illness.
(d) Living a good life and being rewarded with a terminal illness.

4. Who are described by Kubler-Ross as the "most desperate of all'?
(a) Terminal patients who provoke others to anger.
(b) The spouses of terminal patients.
(c) Terminal patients with no religion in their lives.
(d) Terminal patients with no supportive family.

5. What does Cicely Saunders think is the most important thing for doctors to do with their terminally ill patients?
(a) Allow unlimited visits from family.
(b) Let them express their feelings about death.
(c) Let them bring in objects from home.
(d) Give them time to be outdoors before their death.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Kubler-Ross say we should never hide the truth of death?

2. What did most of the students of Kubler-Ross's seminars have in common?

3. What did the daughter of a patient in chapter IX do when her mother became ill?

4. What does Kubler-Ross say usually helps a great deal in the depression stage of grief?

5. What does Kubler-Ross say will help us examine our own reactions and behaviors?

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