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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does chapter X primarily consist?
(a) Interviews with patients.
(b) Instructions for comforting family members of terminal patients.
(c) Coping strategies for terminally ill patients.
(d) Deeper explanations of the five stages of grief.

2. What is a child's main fear after age three?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Pain.
(c) Death.
(d) Separation.

3. What ironic example of our deluded ideas towards death does Dr, Kubler-Ross give in chapter II?
(a) We find it unfathomable for someone to survive a horrific car accident, only to come home and be killed by a silly disease.
(b) We can hear stories of accidental deaths and murders every day, but we never expect that to happen to us.
(c) We find it unfathomable for someone to go to war and survive on the front lines, only to come home and be killed in a car accident.
(d) We understand when others we do not know die but refuse to accept that anyone in our circle could possibly pass away.

4. What do some men do when their wives fall ill to a terminal illness?
(a) Quit their jobs, and cling to their wives.
(b) Find a reason to be unfaithful.
(c) Revert to children.
(d) Try desperately to find a second opinion and a possible cure.

5. How was the patient in chapter VI described by the medical staff?
(a) Angry.
(b) Uncommunicative.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Condescending.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross say the immediate family of terminal patients experience with their dying loved one?

2. How does the courageous female patient view service?

3. What is the fastest way to strip terminal patients of their dignity?

4. What is at the core of Kubler-Ross's studies on death and dying?

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

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