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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. What is the major discrepancy that exists in almost every case of terminal illness?

2. What does Kubler-Ross state is the key for peace in most terminal patients and their families?

3. What is the biggest relief to an angry patient?

4. What does Kubler-Ross say usually helps a great deal in the depression stage of grief?

5. Of what does Kubler-Ross think bargaining is a sign?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who helped the nun remember her religious strength?

3. What is the second stage of grief?

4. Why did some of the terminal patients ask for a second interview with Kubler-Ross and her team?

5. From what was the Catholic nun suffering?

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

7. What was so surprising to Kubler-Ross about America's general fear of death?

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

9. What does the dentist have hope for up until the day he dies?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe each of the five stages of grieving and how each can aid a terminally ill patient in accepting his or her mortality.

Essay Topic 2

Explain Mr. Y.'s situation as well as the reasoning he was given for being placed in that situation. How did this affect his wife's and his acceptance process?

Essay Topic 3

Compare/contrast the types of people who have a hard time reaching acceptance and those who get there much faster. What sorts of things determine the rate at which a patient will reach acceptance? Please provide examples from the book to support your answer.

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