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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. Of what is non-communication from the family an indication?
(a) The family's denial.
(b) The family's rejection.
(c) The family's guilty feelings.
(d) The family's anger.

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

3. For what does Kubler-Ross say we should never judge families?
(a) Their anger towards the staff.
(b) Their seemingly unorthodox behaviors.
(c) Their ignorance of the disease.
(d) Their love for the patients.

4. 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 five stages of grief.
(c) The rollercoaster of hope and despair.
(d) The fear of death.

5. Who were the doctors of the patients who did not request the seminars with Kubler-Ross and her team?
(a) The doctors who were against having Kubler-Ross give her seminars.
(b) The doctors who took the time to speak to their patients about death.
(c) The doctors who allowed family to visit all the time.
(d) The doctors who were against most outside visitors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of patients generally have the hardest time reaching the stage of acceptance?

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

3. What did her experience with Mr. Y. teach Kubler-Ross?

4. From where had Mr. Y come?

5. How old was Mrs. S. when she was interviewed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did most of the terminal patients feel about Kubler-Ross's seminars when she first started them?

7. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

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

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

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

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