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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many family members has the patient in chapter VI seen die in a short amount of time?

2. What does Kubler-Ross say that most American doctors are afraid to do?

3. What is one thing that Kubler-Ross does NOT say terminal patients get angry about?

4. Who finally recognized and diagnosed the nun's disease?

5. Why is Kubler-Ross so shocked at American's inability to accept death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross say has caused our modern fear of death?

2. What is the most common reaction to learning of a terminal illness?

3. What kind of students make up Kubler-Ross's team?

4. What is the fourth stage of grief?

5. What are doctors primarily trained to do?

6. What negative effect can sometimes come from encouraging a terminally ill patient?

7. From what is the dentist suffering?

8. What is the name of the patient in chapter VIII?

9. What does depression in terminal patients replace?

10. How does Kubler-Ross counsel family members to respond to their terminally ill loved ones who are in denial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Kubler-Ross feel was the most important thing for terminally ill patients to do, and what are three ways that this can be done?

Essay Topic 2

What lessons did Kubler-Ross learn from her patients, and how did these realizations change the way that she ran the rest of her interviews?

Essay Topic 3

What were the differences that Kubler-Ross observed between the way Europeans and Americans view death and dying, and how has this affected our coping strategies? Using the text, cite some specific examples of these differences in the patients interviewed in the book.

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