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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. To what does the author compare the stage of acceptance?

2. How was the patient in chapter VI described by the medical staff?

3. How does Kubler-Ross say others should react to the denial of a terminal patient?

4. When should a doctor discuss death with a terminal patient?

5. What does Kubler-Ross say is more important than fluids and pain medication for one who is dying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross think we rely on to help those with terminal illnesses?

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

3. What does Kubler-Ross say that hope can do for a terminally ill patient?

4. From what was the Catholic nun suffering?

5. Why does Kubler-Ross give all of the terminal patients in this book aliases?

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

7. Why did the patient in chapter III become so unruly for the medical staff?

8. What does Kubler-Ross say we should use to treat patients with terminal illnesses?

9. What are the two kinds of depression that terminal patients can experience?

10. What does depression in terminal patients replace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Mr. W. try to do for his wife, and what inner problem did this action indicate? Do you think this problem was ever resolved? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What is "the silence that goes beyond words," and how is this beneficial to a terminally ill patient?

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