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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. Who shows resistance to Kubler-Ross's seminars on death when she first starts?

2. What is the patient in the last chapter suffering from the most?

3. How do children at age five view death?

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

5. Who has become like a sister to Mrs. S. through all of her trials?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the most frustrating part of the last patient's illness?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did the nursing staff treat the terminal ward the way that they did before Kubler-Ross's seminars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Mr. E. was particularly frustrated about one effect of his illness. What was this frustration, and how did this affect his grieving process? What are some things that Kubler-Ross advised him to do about this, and what effect did this advice have on Mr. E.?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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