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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 does hope do for terminal patients, according to Kubler-Ross?

2. What did Mr. W. arrange for his wife when she reached the stage of acceptance?

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

4. About what is the patient in chapter VI most depressed?

5. What do we need to strengthen the most in ourselves, according to Kubler-Ross?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the wife of the patient in chapter VI resent her husband?

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

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

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

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

6. What do we risk happening if we give up on a terminal patient?

7. What is the single most common thing that terminal patients become angry about?

8. What is the fourth stage of grief?

9. About what do most terminal patients become depressed?

10. Of what are most terminal patients truly in denial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are "bonuses," and how can they change a patient's experience with a terminal disease? Is this a good thing to encourage in a terminal patient--why or why not? Using the text, cite some examples--positive or negative--of patients using this technique.

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 was the motto of the courageous young female, and where did she get the inspiration for this frame of mind? How did following this mantra affect her during her terminal illness? Using the text, cite some examples of patients who did not follow this creed and the effect it had on their acceptance process.

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