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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do most clergymen use as a way to comfort the terminally ill?
(a) Letters.
(b) Priesthood.
(c) Scripture.
(d) Hymns.

4. What is sometimes the only thing that will allow a family member to let go of his or her terminally-ill loved ones?
(a) A long talk.
(b) A hypnotic state.
(c) Their death.
(d) A tribute of love.

5. What does Kubler-Ross tell the clergy that their tools for helping the terminally ill really are?
(a) A way to earn the trust of the patient and undermine the doctors.
(b) A way to keep the patient from entering the stage of acceptance.
(c) A way to hide the real truth from themselves and the patients.
(d) A way to appear wiser than their medical doctors.

6. What is the term given to doctor's non-physical treatment of their patients?
(a) Bedside manner.
(b) Non-physical treatment.
(c) Spiritual treatments.
(d) Anti-medical healing.

7. What sustains the young girl in chapter X through her illness?
(a) Her chance to discuss her illness with a therapist.
(b) Her faith that her fate is in God's hands.
(c) Her amazingly supportive parents.
(d) Her very experienced doctors.

8. How do children at age five view death?
(a) A trip from which people never come back.
(b) A place that is dark and scary.
(c) A person who takes people away.
(d) Something that makes people invisible.

9. What do the family of terminally ill patients need to do after the funeral is over and the friends have all left?
(a) Write about their experience.
(b) Get some rest.
(c) Move on as fast as possible.
(d) Talk about their feelings.

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

11. What is the name of the man in chapter IX who was unable to let his wife die and was keeping her from reaching the stage of acceptance?
(a) Mr. P.
(b) Mr. O.
(c) Mr. R.
(d) Mr. M.

12. What does the author see some patients doing before she has a chance to invite them to her seminars?
(a) Speaking together of topics unrelated to death.
(b) Holding informal groups of their own.
(c) Wasting away in despair.
(d) Trying to analyze each other's fears.

13. Why is the mother of the very small girl unhappy with the doctors who are treating her?
(a) They are not very attentive to her or her daughter.
(b) They seem to be too hopeful about a disease with a high mortality rate.
(c) They are not giving her updates on her condition.
(d) They are very condescending.

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

15. Why was the patient in the last chapter so angry with his wife?
(a) She was unsupportive of him in his sickness.
(b) She had died and left him.
(c) She was keeping their children from visiting.
(d) She was too eager to let him go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one complaint that the young girl's mother has?

2. Where does the patient in the last chapter transfer the anger he has towards his wife?

3. Why is the mother of the very small girl in chapter X so nervous about revealing to her daughter the true nature of her illness?

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

5. How does the young girl in chapter X view death?

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