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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. Why does Kubler-Ross feel that a certain person would be most beneficial to the terminal patient at the time of passing?

2. What did most of the students of Kubler-Ross's seminars have in common?

3. What did Cicely Saunders do before she became an author?

4. What do most clergymen use as a way to comfort the terminally ill?

5. What did the doctors do who did attend Kubler-Ross's seminars?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are some of the losses that Mrs. S. suffered before getting her terminal illness?

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

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

6. What does death seem like to a three-year-old child?

7. What helped sustain the seventeen-year-old girl during her terminal illness?

8. What did Kubler-Ross and her team do to try and help Mr. Y.?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the initial reactions of the medical staff to Kubler-Ross's seminars, and how did these change as the seminars progressed? Why did they change? Please use examples from the book to illustrate your points.

Essay Topic 2

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

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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