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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 is the most effective way to help a depressed patient, according to Kubler-Ross?
(a) Speak extensively of religious beliefs.
(b) Describe the family doing well without them.
(c) Visit often for long lengths of time.
(d) Allow time for contemplative silence.

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

3. With whom do most terminal patients bargain?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Their doctor.
(c) Their family.
(d) God.

4. What was so different about the dentist's stage of acceptance?
(a) He had a false sense of acceptance.
(b) He had truly accepted the idea of dying, yet he still had hope.
(c) He had reached acceptance while his family was stuck in the stage of depression.
(d) He had skipped from denial all the way to acceptance.

5. What is the fastest way to strip terminal patients of their dignity?
(a) To continually talk about death.
(b) To treat them as unimportant.
(c) To make them beg for what they need.
(d) To not allow their family to visit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Kubler-Ross like to see technology used for in the case of terminally ill patients?

2. What do most terminal patients promise to do while in the third stage of grief?

3. To what does the author compare the stage of acceptance?

4. How does Kubler-Ross say Americans view death?

5. What does Kubler-Ross say is more important than fluids and pain medication for one who is dying?

Short Essay Questions

1. From what is the dentist suffering?

2. What is the single most common thing that terminal patients become angry about?

3. Why did some of the terminal patients ask for a second interview with Kubler-Ross and her team?

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

5. What is the second stage of grief?

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

7. What is the name of the patient in chapter VI?

8. What is the fourth stage of grief?

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

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

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