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

2. What is different about the people who are receptive to Kubler-Ross's seminars when she first starts having them?
(a) They have all lost more than one close friend.
(b) They are all therapists.
(c) They are all older.
(d) They are all European.

3. How does the courageous female patient keep her mind off of her impending death?
(a) She writes stories for young terminally ill children.
(b) She thinks about and serves others.
(c) She reads books.
(d) She studies possible cures for her disease.

4. What does Kubler Ross say every terminal patient has, no matter how close to acceptance they may be?
(a) A will to die.
(b) A belief in heaven.
(c) Unfinished business.
(d) A feeling of peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author Cicely Saunders say about terminally ill patients?

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

3. What did the doctors do who did attend Kubler-Ross's seminars?

4. What is the patient in the last chapter suffering from the most?

5. How did the patient in the last chapter describe how he was able to face his death after he changed his behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the nursing staff treat the terminal ward the way that they did before Kubler-Ross's seminars?

2. How does Kubler-Ross say death can be for the patient who is ready to meet it?

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

4. How did most of the terminal patients feel about Kubler-Ross's seminars when she first started them?

5. What was the most frustrating part of the last patient's illness?

6. How does the hospital staff initially respond to Kubler-Ross's seminars?

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

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

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

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

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