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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 has happened with the young girl's relationships since falling ill?

2. What was the biggest change that Kubler-Ross noticed when she had finished her seminars?

3. How does the courageous female patient keep her mind off of her impending death?

4. Who were the doctors of the patients who did not request the seminars with Kubler-Ross and her team?

5. What does Kubler-Ross tell the clergy that their tools for helping the terminally ill really are?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the mother of the small girl want to put her son in an institutionalized home when she dies?

2. What terminal illness did Mrs. S. have?

3. What was Mr. Y.'s biggest complaint while his wife was sick?

4. How does the hospital staff initially respond to Kubler-Ross's seminars?

5. Why do family members of terminal patients usually avoid speaking openly about death?

6. What does Kubler-Ross call the quiet state that one enters before death?

7. At whom was the last patient in the book so angry?

8. At what age do children begin to be able to understand the biological qualities of death?

9. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

10. When is the mother of the small girl treated poorly by the medical staff?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kubler-Ross chose a specific type of graduate student to be a part of her team. How did she choose these students, and what do you think that specific background brought to her team that other specialties would not have?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the experience of the Catholic nun, and explain why this lengthy interview was included in the book.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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