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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helped Mrs. S. tremendously with her situation?
(a) Finding good homes for her sons.
(b) Making amends with her ex-husband.
(c) Talking about her past.
(d) Discussing her illness.

2. At what age are children able to start understanding the biological process of death?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

3. How do the young girl's siblings treat her?
(a) With fear and love.
(b) The same as they always have.
(c) With sensitivity and concern.
(d) With distance and distaste.

4. Who shows resistance to Kubler-Ross's seminars on death when she first starts?
(a) The doctors.
(b) The state.
(c) The families.
(d) The patients.

5. What did her experience with Mr. Y. teach Kubler-Ross?
(a) Love can heal many physical wounds.
(b) There are some people who will never let go of a loved one who is dying.
(c) Hospitals should not have such strict regulations on visiting hours.
(d) There should be a support system for family members of terminal patients.

6. Of what is non-communication from the family an indication?
(a) The family's anger.
(b) The family's rejection.
(c) The family's denial.
(d) The family's guilty feelings.

7. Who spoke to the daughter in chapter IX about what her mother needed from her?
(a) Her father.
(b) Kubler-Ross and her team.
(c) The nurses.
(d) Her mother.

8. How does the courageous female patient keep her mind off of her impending death?
(a) She reads books.
(b) She writes stories for young terminally ill children.
(c) She thinks about and serves others.
(d) She studies possible cures for her disease.

9. Of what does chapter X primarily consist?
(a) Interviews with patients.
(b) Instructions for comforting family members of terminal patients.
(c) Coping strategies for terminally ill patients.
(d) Deeper explanations of the five stages of grief.

10. Of what is a quiet state of a terminal patient an indication?
(a) Death is very near.
(b) He or she is withdrawing into himself or herself and needs to be prodded to action.
(c) He or she is paralyzed with fear.
(d) Acceptance of mortality.

11. How long was Mr. Y. allowed to see his wife every day?
(a) Five hours.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) Fifty minutes.
(d) Not at all.

12. What did the daughter of a patient in chapter IX do when her mother became ill?
(a) She moved to a different town and refused to speak to her mother.
(b) She quit her job and stayed with her mother constantly.
(c) She fought with the nurses to treat her mother better.
(d) She read all the books she could find on the illness.

13. How is the courageous female patient using her denial stage, according to Kubler-Ross?
(a) As a way to forget about death altogether.
(b) As a convenience until it is time to die.
(c) As a way to make her doctor's jobs easier.
(d) As a platform to serve.

14. What did Cicely Saunders do before she became an author?
(a) She was a therapist.
(b) She was a doctor.
(c) She was a nurse.
(d) She was a lawyer.

15. What is the patient in the last chapter suffering from the most?
(a) A loss of wealth.
(b) A loss of courage.
(c) A loss of identity.
(d) A loss of control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hard task do family members of terminally ill patients need to do as the final sign of acceptance?

2. Why was the patient in the last chapter so angry with his wife?

3. How does Kubler-Ross try to establish a foundation of trust with the patients with whom she works?

4. What was one woman in chapter IX afraid of before she died?

5. What does Kubler-Ross tell the clergy that their tools for helping the terminally ill really are?

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