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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 does Kubler Ross say every terminal patient has, no matter how close to acceptance they may be?
2. How does Kubler-Ross try to establish a foundation of trust with the patients with whom she works?
3. Who does Kubler-Ross suggest should be present when a terminal patient passes on?
4. What is different about the people who are receptive to Kubler-Ross's seminars when she first starts having them?
5. What did Cicely Saunders do before she became an author?
Short Essay Questions
1. When is the mother of the small girl treated poorly by the medical staff?
2. About what is the mother of the small girl frustrated with her doctors?
3. How does the hospital staff initially respond to Kubler-Ross's seminars?
4. What does death seem like to a three-year-old child?
5. How did the nursing staff treat the terminal ward of the hospital before Kubler-Ross's seminars?
6. Why does the mother of the small girl want to put her son in an institutionalized home when she dies?
7. What was the most frustrating part of the last patient's illness?
8. How did most of the terminal patients feel about Kubler-Ross's seminars when she first started them?
9. What does Kubler-Ross emphasize as the most important thing for terminal patients to do?
10. Who told the seventeen-year-old girl about the severity of her condition?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are "bonuses," and how can they change a patient's experience with a terminal disease? Is this a good thing to encourage in a terminal patient--why or why not? Using the text, cite some examples--positive or negative--of patients using this technique.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the experience of the Catholic nun, and explain why this lengthy interview was included in the book.
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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