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

2. Why was it so hard on Mr. Y. to be restricted in his visits to his wife?
(a) He was afraid she would die without him.
(b) He had nowhere to go for the rest of the day.
(c) He and his wife had been very close.
(d) He did not trust the doctors.

3. At what age are children able to start understanding the biological process of death?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

4. How is the courageous female patient using her denial stage, according to Kubler-Ross?
(a) As a convenience until it is time to die.
(b) As a way to forget about death altogether.
(c) As a way to make her doctor's jobs easier.
(d) As a platform to serve.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Kubler-Ross say we should never judge families?

2. Why is the mother of the very small girl unhappy with the doctors who are treating her?

3. What are the two characteristics that Kubler-Ross notes of a peaceful passing?

4. What does Kubler-Ross say is important for children who have lost loved ones to do?

5. What hard task do family members of terminally ill patients need to do as the final sign of acceptance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the seminars give terminal patients an excuse to do?

2. Who told the seventeen-year-old girl about the severity of her condition?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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