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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 a child's main fear after age three?

2. When does the courageous female patient say she will think about her death?

3. How does the young girl in chapter X view death?

4. What does the author Cicely Saunders say about terminally ill patients?

5. What caused the patient in the last chapter to change his behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the occupation of Mr. Y.?

2. What is the name of the last patient interviewed in the book?

3. For whom does the courageous female patient feel sorry?

4. Why were some of the doctors so hostile towards Kubler-Ross and her staff?

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

6. About what is the mother of the small girl frustrated with her doctors?

7. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

8. What does Kubler-Ross emphasize as the most important thing for terminal patients to do?

9. What did the seminars give terminal patients an excuse to do?

10. How did the nursing staff treat the terminal ward of the hospital before Kubler-Ross's seminars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The seventeen-year-old girl took the news of her terminal illness with grace and dignity. How was she able to do this, and what effect did this have on the people around her? How did each of her family members react to her calmness?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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