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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 the author Cicely Saunders say about terminally ill patients?
(a) They are all more emotionally healthy than most of their families.
(b) They are content to die until someone tells them they should fight it.
(c) They all know they are going to die, even before they are told.
(d) They all keep hope until the end that they will be cured.

2. How long was Mr. Y. allowed to see his wife every day?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) Five hours.
(d) Fifty minutes.

3. What comforted the woman who was afraid in chapter IX?
(a) A picture album made by her family.
(b) A good lengthy talk about heaven.
(c) A priest who held a confessional with her.
(d) Cremation.

4. Who takes the quiet state of terminal patients the hardest?
(a) The patient.
(b) Those faced with the separation.
(c) The medical staff.
(d) The spouse and immediate family of the patient.

5. What bolsters the young girl's family and allows them to be positive?
(a) Their state of denial.
(b) Their acceptance.
(c) Their peace at seeing her so calm about the whole thing.
(d) Their strong religious beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two characteristics that Kubler-Ross notes of a peaceful passing?

2. How do the young girl's siblings treat her?

3. How did some of the inattentive nurses respond to Kubler-Ross's seminars?

4. What is sometimes the only thing that will allow a family member to let go of his or her terminally-ill loved ones?

5. Of what is non-communication from the family an indication?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

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

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

6. Why do family members of terminal patients usually avoid speaking openly about death?

7. What did the seminars give terminal patients an excuse to do?

8. At whom was the last patient in the book so angry?

9. What are some of the losses that Mrs. S. suffered before getting her terminal illness?

10. About what is the mother of the small girl frustrated with her doctors?

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