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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 Kubler-Ross say the immediate family of terminal patients experience with their dying loved one?
(a) The loss of life-force.
(b) The rollercoaster of hope and despair.
(c) The five stages of grief.
(d) The fear of death.

2. Why was the patient in the last chapter so angry with his wife?
(a) She was unsupportive of him in his sickness.
(b) She had died and left him.
(c) She was too eager to let him go.
(d) She was keeping their children from visiting.

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

4. What did the doctor who was most hostile towards Kubler-Ross tell his interns to do?
(a) Not divulge any information about his patients whatsoever.
(b) Give her false information to skew the results.
(c) Keep complete silence when around her.
(d) Encourage the patients to be hostile towards heras well.

5. Of what is a quiet state of a terminal patient an indication?
(a) He or she is paralyzed with fear.
(b) Acceptance of mortality.
(c) Death is very near.
(d) He or she is withdrawing into himself or herself and needs to be prodded to action.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kubler-Ross' seminar end up being for many of the students in attendance?

2. When does the mother of the very small girl say she is treated poorly?

3. How is the courageous female patient using her denial stage, according to Kubler-Ross?

4. What is "the silence that goes beyond words"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

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

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

5. Why were some of the doctors so hostile towards Kubler-Ross and her staff?

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

7. What terminal illness did Mrs. S. have?

8. What did Kubler-Ross and her team do to try and help Mr. Y.?

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

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

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