2. How did Mrs. W. respond to what her husband arranged for her when she had reached the stage of acceptance?
(a) She shed tears of gratitude.
(b) She refused to speak openly with anyone she did not know.
(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.

3. What do we need to strengthen the most in ourselves, according to Kubler-Ross?
(a) Our support systems.
(b) Our ability to tell the truth.
(c) Our emotional stability.
(d) Our physical strength.

4. What does Kubler-Ross say denial is for most people?
(a) A motivation to continue finding other diagnoses.
(b) A defensive device that will speed up the process of death.
(c) A way to separate one's self from reality.
(d) A buffer that allows the patient to mobilize other, less radical defenses.

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

6. Who finally recognized and diagnosed the nun's disease?
(a) Her psychiatrist.
(b) She did, after reading about it.
(c) A patient with the same disease.
(d) Another nurse in the hospital she at which she worked.

7. For what did the dentist have hope?
(a) A reconciliation with his siblings.
(b) A cure.
(c) To die with his family close by.
(d) A chance to write his story.

8. What did Mr. J. end up teaching Kubler-Ross?
(a) The sessions with terminal patients should not be viewed as teaching sessions.
(b) Anonymous interviews are sometimes exactly what certain people need.
(c) Not all terminal patients will follow the same path to acceptance.
(d) Acceptance will manifest itself in many different ways for different patients.

9. Of what does Kubler-Ross think bargaining is a sign?
(a) Past abuse.
(b) Future suicidal tendencies.
(c) Irrational fear.
(d) Unresolved guilt.

10. What is different about doctors who express hope to their terminal patients?
(a) They are too caught up in the emotions of their patient.
(b) They are making promises they cannot keep.
(c) They are seen as unscientific.
(d) They are more readily trusted.

11. What does Kubler-Ross say that we are really denying when we refuse to accept a terminal illness in someone we love?
(a) Our own mortality.
(b) That the bonds of love will last.
(c) Our fear and longing.
(d) The hope of an after-life.

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

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

14. Who makes up Kubler-Ross's research team?
(a) Some theology students and herself.
(b) Some psychology students and herself.
(c) Some top-of-the line social workers and herself.
(d) Some medical students and herself.

15. For what did the nun become an advocate?
(a) Research of terminal illness.
(b) Social workers in the hospitals.
(c) Patients whose needs were not being met.
(d) Religious rights of terminal patients.