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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. Who has become like a sister to Mrs. S. through all of her trials?
(a) Her mother-in-law.
(b) Her neighbor.
(c) Her nurse.
(d) Her son's teacher.

2. How do children at age three view death?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Permanent.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Natural.

3. How does the young girl in chapter X view death?
(a) A rest.
(b) A reunion.
(c) A twinkling.
(d) A progression.

4. Of what is non-communication from the family an indication?
(a) The family's denial.
(b) The family's guilty feelings.
(c) The family's rejection.
(d) The family's anger.

5. What did the daughter of a patient in chapter IX do when her mother became ill?
(a) She moved to a different town and refused to speak to her mother.
(b) She read all the books she could find on the illness.
(c) She quit her job and stayed with her mother constantly.
(d) She fought with the nurses to treat her mother better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term given to doctor's non-physical treatment of their patients?

2. What is a comfort to female terminal patients that is sometimes an aggravation to male patients?

3. What comforted the woman who was afraid in chapter IX?

4. For whom does Mrs. S. live her life?

5. When does the courageous female patient say she will think about her death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

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

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

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

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

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