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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most common reaction to learning of a terminal illness?
(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Denial.

2. What has caused us to de-personalize the dying process?
(a) The high number of machines that are used to prolong life.
(b) The taboo of speaking openly about religion.
(c) The distance we put between the dying and ourselves.
(d) The strict visitation rules at hospitals.

3. Who finally recognized and diagnosed the nun's disease?
(a) Another nurse in the hospital she at which she worked.
(b) Her psychiatrist.
(c) She did, after reading about it.
(d) A patient with the same disease.

4. What is the first stage of the grieving process?
(a) Denial.
(b) Hope.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Anger.

5. 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 and his wife had been very close.
(d) He was afraid she would die without him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross state that most terminal patients hope to be?

2. Over what had the patient in chapter VI been repressing grief?

3. What did the doctors do who did attend Kubler-Ross's seminars?

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

5. What did her experience with Mr. Y. teach Kubler-Ross?

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