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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through V and VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross say that we are really denying when we refuse to accept a terminal illness in someone we love?
(a) Our own mortality.
(b) That the bonds of love will last.
(c) Our fear and longing.
(d) The hope of an after-life.

2. What does Kubler-Ross say we should pay the closest attention to about a terminal patient?
(a) His or her family.
(b) His or her feelings.
(c) His or her fear.
(d) His or her pain.

3. Why is Kubler-Ross so shocked at American's inability to accept death?
(a) Americans are so educated.
(b) She did not expect it.
(c) People in Europe handle it much differently.
(d) Our culture has digressed in this area while advancing in many others.

4. What has taken away a great deal of comfort for those struggling with a terminal illness, according to Kubler-Ross?
(a) The unkept promises of doctors.
(b) The selfishness of the general public.
(c) The strict visitation rules at hospitals.
(d) The decline of religion.

5. What is usually the best way to help angry patients push past their feelings of anger?
(a) Yelling with them.
(b) Giving them time and space.
(c) Talking to them.
(d) Recording them, and making them listen to themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are doctors primarily trained to do for terminal patients?

2. Why does Kubler-Ross think we put so much faith into machines?

3. What kind of terminal patient gets less attention and visits, even from the hospital staff?

4. What tends to be of great relief to terminal patients?

5. Why do most patients enter the third stage of grief?

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