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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Getting to Where You Want to Be, Chapter 7, Relating to Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Schwartz stresses the importance of coming to terms with __________.
(a) Declining health.
(b) Your own prognosis.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

2. Schwartz states that one will _____ emotionally during an illness.
(a) Freeze.
(b) Improve.
(c) Advance.
(d) Regress.

3. As the disease continues to progress, what type of situations must one must expect to increase in occurrence?
(a) Meaningful situations.
(b) Stressful situations.
(c) Hopeful situations.
(d) Scary situations.

4. What are the hardest opposites to handle, as described in Chapter 4?
(a) Wanting to live and die at the same time.
(b) Wanting to care and be cared for at the same time.
(c) Wanting to cry and laugh at the same time.
(d) Wanting to walk and be still at the same time.

5. Schwartz states the important point that when one grieves for what has been lost, it is also important to _____.
(a) Remember the past.
(b) Focus on what lies ahead.
(c) Cherish what remains.
(d) Try to forget one's declining health.

Short Answer Questions

1. Schwartz must learn to become more _____ as the disease worsens.

2. How does one handle stressful emotions, according to Schwartz?

3. Unresolved grief can turn good grief into what type of grief?

4. Schwartz discusses the importance of not ____________the past.

5. In order to develop new relationships, one must be __________.

(see the answer key)

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