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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 the author Cicely Saunders say about terminally ill patients?
2. Why is the mother of the very small girl unhappy with the doctors who are treating her?
3. When does the mother of the very small girl say she is treated poorly?
4. What was the biggest change that Kubler-Ross noticed when she had finished her seminars?
5. Of what is a quiet state of a terminal patient an indication?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does death seem like to a three-year-old child?
2. Why did the nursing staff treat the terminal ward the way that they did before Kubler-Ross's seminars?
3. To whom is chapter IX addressed?
4. What did Kubler-Ross and her team do to try and help Mr. Y.?
5. For whom does the courageous female patient feel sorry?
6. What terminal illness did Mrs. S. have?
7. How did most of the terminal patients feel about Kubler-Ross's seminars when she first started them?
8. What is the name of the last patient interviewed in the book?
9. What did the seminars give terminal patients an excuse to do?
10. Why does the mother of the small girl want to put her son in an institutionalized home when she dies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What are the progressive stages and ages of a child's understanding of death? How can an adult explain the death of a loved one to children in these different stages? Use examples from the book to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
What were the differences that Kubler-Ross observed between the way Europeans and Americans view death and dying, and how has this affected our coping strategies? Using the text, cite some specific examples of these differences in the patients interviewed in the book.
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