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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author see some patients doing before she has a chance to invite them to her seminars?
(a) Trying to analyze each other's fears.
(b) Holding informal groups of their own.
(c) Wasting away in despair.
(d) Speaking together of topics unrelated to death.

2. How do children at age five view death?
(a) A place that is dark and scary.
(b) A person who takes people away.
(c) Something that makes people invisible.
(d) A trip from which people never come back.

3. With what concept is a patient in denial usually really trying to deal?
(a) His or her need for help.
(b) The shame of his or her past deeds.
(c) The love for his or her family.
(d) The reality of his or her mortality.

4. How many family members has the patient in chapter VI seen die in a short amount of time?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. What is the major discrepancy that exists in almost every case of terminal illness?
(a) What the patient wants and what the doctor is willing to do.
(b) What the patient wants and what the doctors want.
(c) What the family wants and what the doctors want.
(d) What the patient wants and what the family wants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross say will help us examine our own reactions and behaviors?

2. Why did some patients ask Kubler-Ross and her team for a second interview?

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

4. What is the most common reaction to learning of a terminal illness?

5. What comfort did the dentist find while facing his death?

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