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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. How did the patient in the last chapter describe how he was able to face his death after he changed his behavior?
(a) With more peace.
(b) With more unequivocated love.
(c) With more motivation for happiness.
(d) With more equanimity.

2. What was the biggest change that Kubler-Ross noticed when she had finished her seminars?
(a) Her own team was much more cohesive.
(b) The staff was much more attentive to the terminal patients.
(c) The doctors were less hostile towards her.
(d) The nurses felt more confident.

3. How does the courageous female patient view service?
(a) An antidote to depression.
(b) A way to ensure her place in heaven.
(c) An escape from her own problems.
(d) A useful form of denial.

4. What can each terminal patient share with each other to lighten burdens all around?
(a) A list of things for which he or she is grateful.
(b) His or her thoughts on religion.
(c) His or her favorite jokes.
(d) His or her own unique story.

5. What sustains the young girl in chapter X through her illness?
(a) Her very experienced doctors.
(b) Her faith that her fate is in God's hands.
(c) Her amazingly supportive parents.
(d) Her chance to discuss her illness with a therapist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the mother of the very small girl in chapter X so nervous about revealing to her daughter the true nature of her illness?

2. What is a child's main fear after age three?

3. What did the doctor who was most hostile towards Kubler-Ross tell his interns to do?

4. What does Kubler-Ross say the immediate family of terminal patients experience with their dying loved one?

5. How does Kubler-Ross try to establish a foundation of trust with the patients with whom she works?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the mother of the small girl want to put her son in an institutionalized home when she dies?

2. For whom does the courageous female patient feel sorry?

3. What is the name of the last patient interviewed in the book?

4. What does death seem like to a five-year-old child?

5. What helped sustain the seventeen-year-old girl during her terminal illness?

6. What does Kubler-Ross call the quiet state that one enters before death?

7. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

8. What does death seem like to a three-year-old child?

9. How did the nursing staff treat the terminal ward of the hospital before Kubler-Ross's seminars?

10. What was Mr. Y.'s biggest complaint while his wife was sick?

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