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

2. Of what is a quiet state of a terminal patient an indication?
(a) Acceptance of mortality.
(b) He or she is paralyzed with fear.
(c) Death is very near.
(d) He or she is withdrawing into himself or herself and needs to be prodded to action.

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

4. What was an UNEXPECTED benefit of Kubler-Ross' seminars for the patients who attended?
(a) They had a reason to get out of bed.
(b) They faced their mortality.
(c) They realized their petty fears.
(d) They heard the words of their family members.

5. What was one woman in chapter IX afraid of before she died?
(a) Her unrepented sins.
(b) Hell.
(c) Worms.
(d) Her family would forget her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the doctor who was most hostile towards Kubler-Ross tell his interns to do?

3. What does Kubler-Ross want the patients to lose their fear of saying?

4. How did the patient in the last chapter describe how he was able to face his death after he changed his behavior?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For whom does the courageous female patient feel sorry?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

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