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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross say usually helps a great deal in the depression stage of grief?
(a) Time and space.
(b) Arranging all the logistical details.
(c) Some time away from the hospital.
(d) Expressing their feelings.

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

3. What does Kubler-Ross think doctors should do for terminal patients?
(a) Prolong life.
(b) Provide moral and spiritual support.
(c) Ease the passing.
(d) Relieve suffering.

4. What did Mr. W. arrange for his wife when she reached the stage of acceptance?
(a) A lawyer to make out her will.
(b) A final meeting with her children and grandchildren.
(c) An additional surgery.
(d) A chance to speak with Dr. Kubler-Ross.

5. What is the third stage of grief?
(a) Denial.
(b) Bargaining.
(c) Anger.
(d) Acceptance.

6. Why should we never give up on terminal patients?
(a) It is often offensive.
(b) There is never reason to give up hope.
(c) They need our strength.
(d) We do not want them to give up on themselves.

7. Why was the medical's staff description of the patient in chapter VI so surprising to Kubler-Ross and her team?
(a) He spoke at length about his feelings.
(b) He seemed very sweet and accommodating.
(c) He had many visitors around the clock.
(d) He was very respectful and helpful.

8. How does Kubler-Ross say Americans view death?
(a) As the end of hope.
(b) As a negative and malicious thing that takes our loved ones away.
(c) As a reason to pull away from people we love in order to avoid pain.
(d) As an ending and cessation.

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

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

11. What do most people do to cheer terminal patients that often makes the depression worse?
(a) Speak extensively of religious beliefs.
(b) Allow time for contemplative silence.
(c) Describe the family doing well without them.
(d) Visit often for long lengths of time.

12. What would Kubler-Ross like to see technology used for in the case of terminally ill patients?
(a) Providing moral support.
(b) Individual contact.
(c) Legal logistics.
(d) Prolonging life.

13. What is usually the real miracle for a terminal patient?
(a) Being grateful.
(b) Being healed.
(c) Finding acceptance.
(d) Seeing how many people their lives have touched.

14. How did Mrs. W. respond to what her husband arranged for her when she had reached the stage of acceptance?
(a) She refused to speak openly with anyone she did not know.
(b) She went into a psychotic episode.
(c) She shed tears of gratitude.
(d) She wrote a letter to all of her children because she did not want them to see her.

15. What terminal disease does the nun in chapter IV have?
(a) Hodgkin's disease.
(b) Parkinson's disease.
(c) ALS.
(d) Lung cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter VI, what did the patient's wife do that helped him overcome his depression?

2. From whom does Kubler-Ross say we should never hide the truth of death?

3. What does Kubler-Ross observe about patients who get the chance to express themselves before death?

4. What are doctors primarily trained to do for terminal patients?

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

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