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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 Cicely Saunders say about terminally ill patients?
(a) They are all more emotionally healthy than most of their families.
(b) They all keep hope until the end that they will be cured.
(c) They all know they are going to die, even before they are told.
(d) They are content to die until someone tells them they should fight it.

2. What did the doctors do who did attend Kubler-Ross's seminars?
(a) They felt they had been neglectful of this area.
(b) They contributed and learned a lot.
(c) They felt that they had been talked down to.
(d) They were enthusiastic to learn more.

3. Why was the one doctor so hostile towards Kubler-Ross and her seminars?
(a) He equated her help with assisted suicide.
(b) He felt she was undermining his treatment decisions.
(c) He had a bad experience with one of her colleagues.
(d) He thought she cared only about the proceeds from her book.

4. When does the mother of the very small girl say she is treated poorly?
(a) When she cannot sleep at night.
(b) During x-rays.
(c) When her daughter visits.
(d) When she needs pain medication.

5. What did the daughter of a patient in chapter IX do when her mother became ill?
(a) She moved to a different town and refused to speak to her mother.
(b) She quit her job and stayed with her mother constantly.
(c) She read all the books she could find on the illness.
(d) She fought with the nurses to treat her mother better.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the courageous female patient using her denial stage, according to Kubler-Ross?

2. What does Kubler Ross say every terminal patient has, no matter how close to acceptance they may be?

3. How long was Mr. Y. allowed to see his wife every day?

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

5. What is the term given to doctor's non-physical treatment of their patients?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

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

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

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

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

7. What terminal illness did Mrs. S. have?

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

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

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

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