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1
Which of the following is an aspect of death?
A)religious meanings of the end of life
B)biological cessation of bodily processes
C)all of these
D)cultural responses to dying.
2
The week-long Jewish ritual that allows mourners to vent their feelings and share memories of the deceased is called
A)mummification.
B)shiva.
C)thanatology.
D)an advance directive.
3
Over the course of the 20th century, there were dramatic improvements in the United States in treating people for diseases. As a result, death has come to be experienced differently from the way it was in earlier times. Which of the following is NOT a result of this change?
A)More people had the opportunity to witness their loved ones dying.
B)People began to see death as a failure of medical treatment, rather than a natural event.
C)Death increasingly became a phenomenon of late adulthood.
D)Death became invisible and abstract to many people.
4
Hospices focus on relieving pain and maintaining a patient's quality of life, practices known as _____ care.
A)denial
B)palliative
C)preventative
D)euthanasia
5
In some cases, people who are nearing the end of life lose cognitive and other functions as part of a process known as
A)a living will.
B)a terminal drop.
C)the thanatological descent.
D)assisted suicide.
6
The stage of dying proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in which people often think, "Oh no, this can't be happening to me," is
A)denial.
B)acceptance.
C)bargaining.
D)anger.
7
One problem that researchers have found with the classic model of grief work is that
A)there is a single pattern of grief that can be described as universal among the bereaved.
B)people cannot always resolve their grief.
C)everyone experiences shock and depression.
D)grief work is beneficial to all bereaved people.
8
The Changing Lives of Older Couples study found that the most common reaction to the death of a spouse was a pattern of
A)grief absence.
B)delayed grief.
C)resilience.
D)shock and disbelief.
9
Around the ages of 5 to 7 years, children generally learn that death is
A)vegetative and nonfunctional.
B)irreversible and inevitable.
C)abstract and invisible.
D)temporary and escapable.
10
One to five years after their parents died, a majority of the adults in one research study said that they still experienced
A)financial hardships from funeral costs.
B)the sensation that the parent was still alive.
C)a newfound sense of freedom.
D)emotional distress.
11
The Japanese have a word, mizuko, but in English there is no term for
A)the weeklong ritual of venting feelings after a loved one dies.
B)assisting in another person's death.
C)a miscarried or aborted fetus.
D)a persistent vegetative state.
12
In the United States, suicide rates are higher among _____ than for _____.
A)children; elderly people
B)men; women
C)women; men
D)married men; divorced and widowed men
13
One of the medical arguments AGAINST assisted suicide is that
A)doctors are obligated to relieve suffering at all costs.
B)there is a possibility of misdiagnosis; the person's disease might not be fatal after all.
C)patients are the ones who actually take the steps to end their lives.
D)there is virtually no chance of new medical breakthroughs that would help most patients.
14
Terry has agreed to let doctors remove the feeding tubes and other life support systems from her terminally ill partner, Pat. Terry has made the decision to commit
A)mummification.
B)assisted suicide.
C)active euthanasia.
D)passive euthanasia.
15
A life review is a process of
A)reminiscence in order to determine the significance of one's life.
B)examining one's strategic moves in a popular board game.
C)critiquing a pictorial magazine.
D)comparison taste-testing breakfast cereals.







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