2. What has Kubler-Ross and her team done for years that provides comfort for terminal patients?
(a) Instruct doctors and nurses in the proper ways to care for terminal patients.
(b) Hold seminars for family members of deceased patients.
(c) Allow patients to speak and be careful listeners.
(d) Donate money to a charity for research on terminal illnesses.

3. What is one thing that Kubler-Ross does NOT say terminal patients get angry about?
(a) Themselves for getting sick.
(b) Their family for writing them off as already dead.
(c) The world for continuing on without them.
(d) The hospital staff for being well.

4. What are doctors primarily trained to do for terminal patients?
(a) Prolong life.
(b) Ease the passing.
(c) Provide moral and spiritual support.
(d) Relieve suffering.

5. To what does Kubler-Ross wish we could return?
(a) A time when Americans were more like Europeans.
(b) A time when technology was simpler and religion was richer.
(c) A time when mourning was natural and cathartic rather than causing deep anger.
(d) A time when death was not feared.

6. When should a doctor discuss death with a terminal patient?
(a) Long before it arrives.
(b) When there is a definite timespan.
(c) When there is no other option.
(d) When family is present to offer support.

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

8. Why did some patients ask Kubler-Ross and her team for a second interview?
(a) They wanted to give them money.
(b) They had other people with whom they wanted Kubler-Ross to speak.
(c) They wanted to express their true feelings.
(d) They liked being able to talk to someone.

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

10. What does the fourth stage of grief replace in the terminal patient?
(a) Anger.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Denial.
(d) Hope.

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

12. What does Kubler-Ross say will help us examine our own reactions and behaviors?
(a) Walking the halls of a hospital.
(b) Reading about the grief process.
(c) Spending time with the elderly.
(d) Speaking with other people who have deceased family members.

13. What usually follows denial in the grieving process?
(a) Hope.
(b) Anger.
(c) Despair.
(d) Acceptance.

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 shed tears of gratitude.
(c) She wrote a letter to all of her children because she did not want them to see her.
(d) She went into a psychotic episode.

15. To whom was the patient in chapter VI not communicating his true feelings?
(a) His children.
(b) Kubler-Ross and her team.
(c) His wife.
(d) The hospital staff.