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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 comfort did the dentist find while facing his death?

2. Why should we never give up on terminal patients?

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

4. What kind of terminal patient gets less attention and visits, even from the hospital staff?

5. Why do some terminal patients never reach the final stage of grief?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the fourth stage of grief?

7. What is the name of the patient in chapter VI?

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

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

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

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

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 3

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?

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