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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kubler-Ross say Americans view death?
(a) As a negative and malicious thing that takes our loved ones away.
(b) As an ending and cessation.
(c) As the end of hope.
(d) As a reason to pull away from people we love in order to avoid pain.

2. What is usually the real miracle for a terminal patient?
(a) Being grateful.
(b) Being healed.
(c) Finding acceptance.
(d) Seeing how many people their lives have touched.

3. What does Kubler-Ross state is the key for peace in most terminal patients and their families?
(a) Strengthening familiy ties.
(b) Speaking with competent doctors.
(c) Hope for a cure.
(d) Faith in a religious figure.

4. What does Kubler-Ross say that most American doctors are afraid to do?
(a) Lose a patient on their watch.
(b) Accept that they, themselves, could die from an illness.
(c) Tell family members that a loved one is dying.
(d) Admit to a patient that he or she will die.

5. As what did Mr. J. refer to his small happy moments?
(a) Miracles.
(b) Bonuses.
(c) Happinesses.
(d) Bits and pieces.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. J. say that every terminally ill patient has?

2. Why is Kubler-Ross so shocked at American's inability to accept death?

3. What is the most effective way to help a depressed patient, according to Kubler-Ross?

4. What is not necessary to do when a patient is unable to accept reality?

5. Who finally recognized and diagnosed the nun's disease?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was so surprising to Kubler-Ross about America's general fear of death?

2. How does Kubler-Ross counsel family members to respond to their terminally ill loved ones who are in denial?

3. Why does the wife of the patient in chapter VI resent her husband?

4. What is the name of the patient in chapter VI?

5. What is the name of the patient in chapter VIII?

6. What does depression in terminal patients replace?

7. About what do most terminal patients become depressed?

8. What do we risk happening if we give up on a terminal patient?

9. Of what are most terminal patients truly in denial?

10. What is the single most common thing that terminal patients become angry about?

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