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

2. Why was the one doctor so hostile towards Kubler-Ross and her seminars?

3. What does the author see some patients doing before she has a chance to invite them to her seminars?

4. Why is the mother of the very small girl unhappy with the doctors who are treating her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

What was the motto of the courageous young female, and where did she get the inspiration for this frame of mind? How did following this mantra affect her during her terminal illness? Using the text, cite some examples of patients who did not follow this creed and the effect it had on their acceptance process.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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