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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 did Mr. J. end up teaching Kubler-Ross?

2. How did Mrs. W. respond to what her husband arranged for her when she had reached the stage of acceptance?

3. What is the major discrepancy that exists in almost every case of terminal illness?

4. What was so different about the dentist's stage of acceptance?

5. The author says, "We should speak as openly about death as we do about... " what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kubler-Ross say should be the first concern of doctors?

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

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

4. Who helped the nun remember her religious strength?

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

6. What is the third stage of grief?

7. What does depression in terminal patients replace?

8. Why does Kubler-Ross give all of the terminal patients in this book aliases?

9. What does Kubler-Ross say we should use to treat patients with terminal illnesses?

10. What is the most common reaction to learning of a terminal illness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Kubler-Ross feel was the most important thing for terminally ill patients to do, and what are three ways that this can be done?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

What is "the silence that goes beyond words," and how is this beneficial to a terminally ill patient?

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