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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross want the patients to lose their fear of saying?
(a) Heaven and hell.
(b) Death and fear.
(c) Death and cancer.
(d) Death and hope.

2. What was so different about the dentist's stage of acceptance?
(a) He had a false sense of acceptance.
(b) He had reached acceptance while his family was stuck in the stage of depression.
(c) He had truly accepted the idea of dying, yet he still had hope.
(d) He had skipped from denial all the way to acceptance.

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

4. What is the fourth stage of grief?
(a) Depression.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Denial.
(d) Bargaining.

5. What usually accompanies depression in the terminally ill patient?
(a) The beginning of acceptance.
(b) Despair and sadness.
(c) Shame and guilt.
(d) Relief.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kubler-Ross' seminar end up being for many of the students in attendance?

2. What has Kubler-Ross and her team done for years that provides comfort for terminal patients?

3. What is the fifth stage of grief?

4. What is sometimes the only thing that will allow a family member to let go of his or her terminally-ill loved ones?

5. To what does the author compare the stage of acceptance?

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