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Core Concepts in Health, 9/e

Paul M. Insel, Stanford University School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dying and Death

Chapter 20 Dying and Death

Multiple Choice


1	Which of the following is not a characteristic of brain death?
		A)	unresponsivity
		B)	incoherence
		C)	flat EEG
		D)	no movement


2	Society's unrealistic picture of death is most often seen in
		A)	television and video games.
		B)	textbooks.
		C)	news reporting.
		D)	popular fiction.


3	The testator of a will is the
		A)	attorney who represents the survivors.
		B)	person making the will.
		C)	closest living relative.
		D)	beneficiary of the will.


4	A hospice is
		A)	a facility where the dying are isolated from the rest of society.
		B)	a facility or program that seeks to maximize quality of life for terminally ill patients.
		C)	a hospital where people are kept alive with expensive equipment.
		D)	a clinic where terminally ill patients go to test experimental treatments.


5	The country in which euthanasia is most accepted by the culture is
		A)	the United States.
		B)	China.
		C)	Australia.
		D)	the Netherlands.


6	Brain death is characterized by
		A)	social isolation.
		B)	no reflexes.
		C)	breakdown of metabolic processes.
		D)	terminal diagnosis.


7	The average age at which children begin to develop an adult concept of death is
		A)	3.
		B)	5.
		C)	10.
		D)	15.


8	When someone dies without a will, the state
		A)	distributes the property to the next-of-kin.
		B)	appoints an administrator from the courts.
		C)	puts the assets into the public coffers.
		D)	pays the deceased's creditors before doing anything else.


9	Prior to this century, most people died
		A)	in a hospice.
		B)	at home.
		C)	in a hospital or nursing home.
		D)	under the direct care of a physician.


10	The patients most often receiving hospice care are
		A)	patients with AIDS.
		B)	terminally ill children.
		C)	patients receiving technologically advanced treatments.
		D)	terminally ill cancer patients.

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