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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two different forms of depression?
(a) Moral and theoretical.
(b) Active and passive.
(c) Theological and reactive.
(d) Reactive and preparatory.

2. Why did some patients ask Kubler-Ross and her team for a second interview?
(a) They liked being able to talk to someone.
(b) They wanted to give them money.
(c) They wanted to express their true feelings.
(d) They had other people with whom they wanted Kubler-Ross to speak.

3. From what is the patient in chapter VI dying?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Parkinson's.
(c) ALS.
(d) Hodgkin's.

4. How is the courageous female patient using her denial stage, according to Kubler-Ross?
(a) As a way to forget about death altogether.
(b) As a way to make her doctor's jobs easier.
(c) As a convenience until it is time to die.
(d) As a platform to serve.

5. What point was reiterated in the story of Mr. and Mrs. W.?
(a) That over-stimulation is harmful to the acceptance process.
(b) That closure is an important process in the dying process.
(c) That too much communication can be harmful.
(d) That we should pay more attention to the patient's wishes than our own.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the mother of the very small girl unhappy with the doctors who are treating her?

2. What did Mr. W. arrange for his wife when she reached the stage of acceptance?

3. Who causes the nun to examine her faith?

4. What creates the greatest amount of stress for a terminal patient?

5. What are terminal patients usually upset about when they reach the fourth stage of grief?

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