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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are described by Kubler-Ross as the "most desperate of all'?
(a) Terminal patients who provoke others to anger.
(b) Terminal patients with no supportive family.
(c) The spouses of terminal patients.
(d) Terminal patients with no religion in their lives.

2. Why does Kubler-Ross feel that our inability to cope with death is such a selfish thing?
(a) We feel that we are validated in treating others poorly because of our grief.
(b) We do not give enough to charities who are researching terminal illnesses.
(c) We do not treat the hospital workers kindly.
(d) We do not focus enough on the needs of the dying patient.

3. What is at the core of Kubler-Ross's studies on death and dying?
(a) Research books on the coping process.
(b) Interviews with doctors and nurses.
(c) Weekly interviews with terminal patients.
(d) Transcripts from psychiatric consults.

4. What usually follows denial in the grieving process?
(a) Despair.
(b) Anger.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Hope.

5. For what did the nun become an advocate?
(a) Religious rights of terminal patients.
(b) Research of terminal illness.
(c) Social workers in the hospitals.
(d) Patients whose needs were not being met.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two different forms of depression?

2. What does Kubler-Ross say we should pay the closest attention to about a terminal patient?

3. What is the fifth stage of grief?

4. How does Kubler-Ross say others should react to the denial of a terminal patient?

5. To what does Kubler-Ross wish we could return?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the hospice team help the wife of the patient in chapter VI to do?

2. What kind of students make up Kubler-Ross's team?

3. What is the second stage of grief?

4. What does Kubler-Ross think we rely on to help those with terminal illnesses?

5. About what do most terminal patients become depressed?

6. Why does Kubler-Ross give all of the terminal patients in this book aliases?

7. How does Kubler-Ross counsel family members to respond to their terminally ill loved ones who are in denial?

8. Why does the wife of the patient in chapter VI resent her husband?

9. What does Kubler-Ross say we should use to treat patients with terminal illnesses?

10. What was so surprising to Kubler-Ross about America's general fear of death?

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