2. What does Kubler-Ross say the immediate family of terminal patients experience with their dying loved one?
(a) The fear of death.
(b) The five stages of grief.
(c) The loss of life-force.
(d) The rollercoaster of hope and despair.

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

4. Who takes the quiet state of terminal patients the hardest?
(a) The patient.
(b) Those faced with the separation.
(c) The spouse and immediate family of the patient.
(d) The medical staff.

5. 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) Her daughter is so young.
(d) The hospital staff was inattentive.

6. For whom does Mrs. S. live her life?
(a) Her sisters.
(b) Her beloved parents.
(c) Her two sons.
(d) Her sickly spouse.

7. 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 platform to serve.
(d) As a way to make her doctor's jobs easier.

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

9. How did the patient in the last chapter describe how he was able to face his death after he changed his behavior?
(a) With more motivation for happiness.
(b) With more unequivocated love.
(c) With more peace.
(d) With more equanimity.

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

11. 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 appear wiser than their medical doctors.
(c) A way to keep the patient from entering the stage of acceptance.
(d) A way to hide the real truth from themselves and the patients.

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

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

14. What does the author Cicely Saunders say about terminally ill patients?
(a) They are all more emotionally healthy than most of their families.
(b) They are content to die until someone tells them they should fight it.
(c) They all know they are going to die, even before they are told.
(d) They all keep hope until the end that they will be cured.

15. 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 are very condescending.
(c) They seem to be too hopeful about a disease with a high mortality rate.
(d) They are not giving her updates on her condition.