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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 was afraid she would die without him.
(c) He and his wife had been very close.
(d) He had nowhere to go for the rest of the day.

3. Why does Kubler-Ross think we put so much faith into machines?
(a) It distracts us from the truth.
(b) It gives us a false sense of hope.
(c) It helps us deny our mortality.
(d) It helps us forget our pain.

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

5. What negative effect can come from encouraging a terminal patient?
(a) Makes him or her feel guilty for not being able to endure.
(b) Creates despair and hopelessness.
(c) Disrupts the process of preparing for death.
(d) Depresses him or her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Mrs. W. unable to reach the stage of acceptance when she was ready?

2. How old is the girl whose parents informed her of her disease instead of the doctor?

3. How does the courageous female patient keep her mind off of her impending death?

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

5. How do the young girl's siblings treat her?

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