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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 usually the best way to help angry patients push past their feelings of anger?
(a) Yelling with them.
(b) Talking to them.
(c) Recording them, and making them listen to themselves.
(d) Giving them time and space.

2. Who causes the nun to examine her faith?
(a) A Jewish man.
(b) A Catholic priest.
(c) Another nun.
(d) A Methodist pastor.

3. What does Mr. J. say that every terminally ill patient has?
(a) A reason to hope.
(b) A true knowledge of his or her impending death.
(c) A perspective unlike they have ever had before.
(d) A unique philosophy on life and death.

4. How many family members has the patient in chapter VI seen die in a short amount of time?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. What did Mr. J. end up teaching Kubler-Ross?
(a) Not all terminal patients will follow the same path to acceptance.
(b) Acceptance will manifest itself in many different ways for different patients.
(c) Anonymous interviews are sometimes exactly what certain people need.
(d) The sessions with terminal patients should not be viewed as teaching sessions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the fourth stage of grief replace in the terminal patient?

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

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

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 is the fourth stage of grief?

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

3. About what do most terminal patients become depressed?

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

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

6. From what was the Catholic nun suffering?

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

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

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

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

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