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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. What are terminal patients usually upset about when they reach the fourth stage of grief?
(a) The realization of loss.
(b) Abandoning their family.
(c) Their unresolved issues.
(d) Being abandoned by God.

2. What is the first stage of the grieving process?
(a) Hope.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Anger.
(d) Denial.

3. What point was reiterated in the story of Mr. and Mrs. W.?
(a) That we should pay more attention to the patient's wishes than our own.
(b) That too much communication can be harmful.
(c) That closure is an important process in the dying process.
(d) That over-stimulation is harmful to the acceptance process.

4. What is the biggest relief to an angry patient?
(a) Being separated from people for a time.
(b) Writing his or her feelings.
(c) Expressing his or her anger.
(d) Suppressing his or her feelings until they go away.

5. From what is the patient in chapter VI dying?
(a) Parkinson's.
(b) Hodgkin's.
(c) ALS.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. J. end up teaching Kubler-Ross?

2. What is the fourth stage of grief?

3. What has Kubler-Ross and her team done for years that provides comfort for terminal patients?

4. What does Kubler-Ross say that we are really denying when we refuse to accept a terminal illness in someone we love?

5. From whom does Kubler-Ross say we should never hide the truth of death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the patient in chapter III become so unruly for the medical staff?

2. What is the name of the patient in chapter VIII?

3. What do we risk happening if we give up on a terminal patient?

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

5. What does depression in terminal patients replace?

6. What negative effect can sometimes come from encouraging a terminally ill patient?

7. What does Kubler-Ross say has caused our modern fear of death?

8. What are doctors primarily trained to do?

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

10. What does Kubler-Ross say that hope can do for a terminally ill patient?

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