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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. What is the patient in the last chapter suffering from the most?
(a) A loss of courage.
(b) A loss of identity.
(c) A loss of control.
(d) A loss of wealth.

2. What are the two characteristics that Kubler-Ross notes of a peaceful passing?
(a) Unresistant and sweet.
(b) Quiet and calm.
(c) Neither frightening nor painful.
(d) Joyful and peaceful.

3. How old is the girl whose parents informed her of her disease instead of the doctor?
(a) 13.
(b) 17.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

4. What has happened with the young girl's relationships since falling ill?
(a) They can now feel each other's pain.
(b) They have drifted apart.
(c) They have grown closer.
(d) They have become tense and uncomfortable.

5. When does the courageous female patient say she will think about her death?
(a) When she feels it is time to die.
(b) When the doctors tell her there is nothing more they can do.
(c) When she sees her logistical details taken care of.
(d) When she knows her family is taken care of.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the courageous female patient teach Kubler-Ross?

2. Of what is non-communication from the family an indication?

3. Who were the doctors of the patients who did not request the seminars with Kubler-Ross and her team?

4. What did most of the students of Kubler-Ross's seminars have in common?

5. How does Kubler-Ross try to establish a foundation of trust with the patients with whom she works?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Kubler-Ross and her team do to try and help Mr. Y.?

2. About what is the mother of the small girl frustrated with her doctors?

3. For whom does the courageous female patient feel sorry?

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

5. To whom is chapter IX addressed?

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

7. How did the nursing staff treat the terminal ward of the hospital before Kubler-Ross's seminars?

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

9. What did the seminars give terminal patients an excuse to do?

10. What does death seem like to a five-year-old child?

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