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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 did most of the students of Kubler-Ross's seminars have in common?
(a) They all believed in the healing power of religion.
(b) They had past experiences with terminal illnesses.
(c) They had been treated poorly by doctors who did not respect their beliefs.
(d) They were incredibly skeptical at the beginning of the seminar.

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

3. Who takes the quiet state of terminal patients the hardest?
(a) Those faced with the separation.
(b) The spouse and immediate family of the patient.
(c) The medical staff.
(d) The patient.

4. What do most clergymen use as a way to comfort the terminally ill?
(a) Priesthood.
(b) Letters.
(c) Scripture.
(d) Hymns.

5. Where does the patient in the last chapter transfer the anger he has towards his wife?
(a) Himself.
(b) Kubler-Ross and her staff.
(c) The hospital staff.
(d) His children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross tell the clergy that their tools for helping the terminally ill really are?

2. Who does Kubler-Ross suggest should be present when a terminal patient passes on?

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

4. How do children at age five view death?

5. Why was it so hard on Mr. Y. to be restricted in his visits to his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the occupation of Mr. Y.?

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

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

6. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

7. Why did the nursing staff treat the terminal ward the way that they did before Kubler-Ross's seminars?

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

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

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

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