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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a comfort to female terminal patients that is sometimes an aggravation to male patients?
(a) Seeing the logistical details taken care of.
(b) Being encouraged to hold on.
(c) Having a constant stream of visitors.
(d) Seeing their families continue and progress without them.

2. For what does Kubler-Ross say we should never judge families?
(a) Their seemingly unorthodox behaviors.
(b) Their anger towards the staff.
(c) Their ignorance of the disease.
(d) Their love for the patients.

3. How did some of the inattentive nurses respond to Kubler-Ross's seminars?
(a) They worked together to write a new manual specifically for nurses.
(b) They became strong advocates of her work and now teach her seminars.
(c) They were motivated to report the doctors who had been so callous.
(d) They were offended at having their actions judged.

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

5. What did Kubler-Ross' seminar end up being for many of the students in attendance?
(a) A group therapy session.
(b) A way to forget their past.
(c) A self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) A way to spread their message.

6. What is the name of the terminally ill patient in the last chapter?
(a) Mr. E.
(b) Mr. R.
(c) Mr. F.
(d) Mr. S.

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

8. How does Kubler-Ross try to establish a foundation of trust with the patients with whom she works?
(a) She begins with an open initial interview.
(b) She establishes a correspondence by mail first.
(c) She gives them a copy of her book.
(d) She has them speak with other patients of hers.

9. Who has become like a sister to Mrs. S. through all of her trials?
(a) Her son's teacher.
(b) Her mother-in-law.
(c) Her nurse.
(d) Her neighbor.

10. 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) Wasting away in despair.
(c) Speaking together of topics unrelated to death.
(d) Holding informal groups of their own.

11. How does the young girl in chapter X view death?
(a) A reunion.
(b) A progression.
(c) A rest.
(d) A twinkling.

12. What is a child's main fear after age three?
(a) Pain.
(b) Separation.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Death.

13. What is different about the people who are receptive to Kubler-Ross's seminars when she first starts having them?
(a) They are all older.
(b) They have all lost more than one close friend.
(c) They are all therapists.
(d) They are all European.

14. What is the one complaint that the young girl's mother has?
(a) The price of care was exorbitant.
(b) She could not take her daughter home to die.
(c) The hospital staff was inattentive.
(d) Her daughter is so young.

15. From what was Mrs. S. suffering?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Hodgkin's.
(c) Parkinson's.
(d) ALS.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Kubler-Ross say is important for children who have lost loved ones to do?

4. Why is the mother of the very small girl unhappy with the doctors who are treating her?

5. What does the courageous female patient equate with death?

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