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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 do most clergymen use as a way to comfort the terminally ill?

2. What has happened with the young girl's relationships since falling ill?

3. What did the doctor who was most hostile towards Kubler-Ross tell his interns to do?

4. How old was Mrs. S. when she was interviewed?

5. What kind of patients generally have the hardest time reaching the stage of acceptance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the mother of the small girl want to put her son in an institutionalized home when she dies?

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

3. Why were some of the doctors so hostile towards Kubler-Ross and her staff?

4. How does Kubler-Ross say death can be for the patient who is ready to meet it?

5. What helped sustain the seventeen-year-old girl during her terminal illness?

6. What terminal illness did Mrs. S. have?

7. What is the name of the last patient interviewed in the book?

8. What was the occupation of Mr. Y.?

9. Who told the seventeen-year-old girl about the severity of her condition?

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

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

Mrs. S. was a dynamic woman who had faced many different trials in her life. What were these trials, and how did they affect her ability to grieve properly?

Essay Topic 3

Explain Mr. Y.'s situation as well as the reasoning he was given for being placed in that situation. How did this affect his wife's and his acceptance process?

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