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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 some of the inattentive nurses respond to Kubler-Ross's seminars?
(a) They were offended at having their actions judged.
(b) They became strong advocates of her work and now teach her seminars.
(c) They worked together to write a new manual specifically for nurses.
(d) They were motivated to report the doctors who had been so callous.

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

3. How does Kubler-Ross try to establish a foundation of trust with the patients with whom she works?
(a) She has them speak with other patients of hers.
(b) She begins with an open initial interview.
(c) She gives them a copy of her book.
(d) She establishes a correspondence by mail first.

4. What does the author see some patients doing before she has a chance to invite them to her seminars?
(a) Holding informal groups of their own.
(b) Speaking together of topics unrelated to death.
(c) Trying to analyze each other's fears.
(d) Wasting away in despair.

5. What is a child's main fear before age three?
(a) Pain.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Separation.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Mrs. S. when she was interviewed?

2. What do most clergymen use as a way to comfort the terminally ill?

3. What does the courageous female patient teach Kubler-Ross?

4. Where does the patient in the last chapter transfer the anger he has towards his wife?

5. What did most of the students of Kubler-Ross's seminars have in common?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross emphasize as the most important thing for terminal patients to do?

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

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

4. What was the occupation of Mr. Y.?

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

6. At what age do children begin to be able to understand the biological qualities of death?

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

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

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

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

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