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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 are the two characteristics that Kubler-Ross notes of a peaceful passing?
(a) Unresistant and sweet.
(b) Neither frightening nor painful.
(c) Quiet and calm.
(d) Joyful and peaceful.

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

3. What hard task do family members of terminally ill patients need to do as the final sign of acceptance?
(a) Allow their loved one the freedom of silence.
(b) Allow their loved one to need their constant presence.
(c) Allow their loved one to speak freely of death.
(d) Allow their loved one to withdraw from them.

4. What has happened with the young girl's relationships since falling ill?
(a) They can now feel each other's pain.
(b) They have grown closer.
(c) They have become tense and uncomfortable.
(d) They have drifted apart.

5. Who shows resistance to Kubler-Ross's seminars on death when she first starts?
(a) The doctors.
(b) The patients.
(c) The families.
(d) The state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the daughter of a patient in chapter IX do when her mother became ill?

2. Why was the patient in the last chapter so angry with his wife?

3. What can each terminal patient share with each other to lighten burdens all around?

4. What does Kubler-Ross say the immediate family of terminal patients experience with their dying loved one?

5. Who spoke to the daughter in chapter IX about what her mother needed from her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When is the mother of the small girl treated poorly by the medical staff?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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