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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 does Kubler-Ross think doctors should do for terminal patients?
(a) Prolong life.
(b) Provide moral and spiritual support.
(c) Relieve suffering.
(d) Ease the passing.

2. What negative effect can come from encouraging a terminal patient?
(a) Disrupts the process of preparing for death.
(b) Creates despair and hopelessness.
(c) Makes him or her feel guilty for not being able to endure.
(d) Depresses him or her.

3. What terminal disease does the nun in chapter IV have?
(a) ALS.
(b) Hodgkin's disease.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Parkinson's disease.

4. Why do most patients enter the third stage of grief?
(a) They are attempting to postpone the inevitable.
(b) They want to believe there is a way to be released from their situation.
(c) They are afraid to let go of their anger.
(d) They want more control of their circumstances.

5. How was the patient in chapter VI described by the medical staff?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Angry.
(c) Uncommunicative.
(d) Condescending.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. W. arrange for his wife when she reached the stage of acceptance?

2. With what concept is a patient in denial usually really trying to deal?

3. What does Dr. Kubler-Ross blame for the increased fear of death and dying?

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

5. From what is the patient in chapter VI dying?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are doctors primarily trained to do?

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

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

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

6. What is the fourth stage of grief?

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

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

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

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

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