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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 the name of the terminally ill patient in the last chapter?

2. From what was Mrs. S. suffering?

3. What does the courageous female patient equate with death?

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

5. Of what does chapter X primarily consist?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. At what age do children begin to be able to understand the biological qualities of death?

4. How did most of the terminal patients feel about Kubler-Ross's seminars when she first started them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When can encouragement be a negative thing for a terminal patient, and what are some ways to know when to avoid it?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Mrs. S. was a dynamic woman who had faced many different trials in her life. What were these trials, and how did they affect her ability to grieve properly?

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