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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 usually accompanies depression in the terminally ill patient?
(a) Relief.
(b) Despair and sadness.
(c) The beginning of acceptance.
(d) Shame and guilt.

2. Of what does Kubler-Ross think bargaining is a sign?
(a) Irrational fear.
(b) Past abuse.
(c) Future suicidal tendencies.
(d) Unresolved guilt.

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

4. What comfort did the dentist find while facing his death?
(a) He knew researchers were close to a cure.
(b) His logistical details were taken care of.
(c) His wife and family knew that he loved them.
(d) He would be with the Lord.

5. What are the two different forms of depression?
(a) Active and passive.
(b) Theological and reactive.
(c) Reactive and preparatory.
(d) Moral and theoretical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are described by Kubler-Ross as the "most desperate of all'?

2. What is different about doctors who express hope to their terminal patients?

3. For what did the dentist have hope?

4. What is the fourth stage of grief?

5. What is the most common reaction to learning of a terminal illness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross say should be the first concern of doctors?

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

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

4. Of what are most terminal patients truly in denial?

5. What does depression in terminal patients replace?

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

7. What is the most common reaction to learning of a terminal illness?

8. About what do most terminal patients become depressed?

9. What does the dentist have hope for up until the day he dies?

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

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