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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 every terminal patient has, no matter how close to acceptance they may be?
(a) A will to die.
(b) Unfinished business.
(c) A belief in heaven.
(d) A feeling of peace.

2. How do the young girl's siblings treat her?
(a) With distance and distaste.
(b) With fear and love.
(c) The same as they always have.
(d) With sensitivity and concern.

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

4. What do some men do when their wives fall ill to a terminal illness?
(a) Find a reason to be unfaithful.
(b) Quit their jobs, and cling to their wives.
(c) Revert to children.
(d) Try desperately to find a second opinion and a possible cure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kubler-Ross feel that a certain person would be most beneficial to the terminal patient at the time of passing?

2. What is a child's main fear before age three?

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

4. About whom is the courageous female patient in chapter X worried?

5. Who were the doctors of the patients who did not request the seminars with Kubler-Ross and her team?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

7. What was the most frustrating part of the last patient's illness?

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

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

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

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