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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did most of the students of Kubler-Ross's seminars have in common?
(a) They had been treated poorly by doctors who did not respect their beliefs.
(b) They had past experiences with terminal illnesses.
(c) They all believed in the healing power of religion.
(d) They were incredibly skeptical at the beginning of the seminar.

3. What was one woman in chapter IX afraid of before she died?
(a) Her unrepented sins.
(b) Her family would forget her.
(c) Hell.
(d) Worms.

4. What caused the patient in the last chapter to change his behavior?
(a) He was yelled at by a nurse.
(b) He had a heartfelt conversation with his wife.
(c) He came to understand the reason behind his behavior.
(d) He went to one of Kubler-Ross's seminars.

5. Why was it so hard on Mr. Y. to be restricted in his visits to his wife?
(a) He did not trust the doctors.
(b) He and his wife had been very close.
(c) He was afraid she would die without him.
(d) He had nowhere to go for the rest of the day.

6. How old was Mrs. S. when she was interviewed?
(a) 55.
(b) 29.
(c) 49.
(d) 33.

7. What did the doctors do who did attend Kubler-Ross's seminars?
(a) They felt that they had been talked down to.
(b) They contributed and learned a lot.
(c) They were enthusiastic to learn more.
(d) They felt they had been neglectful of this area.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. How old is the girl whose parents informed her of her disease instead of the doctor?
(a) 10.
(b) 17.
(c) 13.
(d) 20.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is a quiet state of a terminal patient an indication?

2. Who takes the quiet state of terminal patients the hardest?

3. What do most clergymen use as a way to comfort the terminally ill?

4. What did her experience with Mr. Y. teach Kubler-Ross?

5. About whom is the courageous female patient in chapter X worried?

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