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1
Which statement best reflects how a person is likely to cope with dying?
A)An individual copes with dying differently from how he or she has coped with other losses or changes throughout life.
B)An individual will most likely not cope with dying.
C)An individual brought up in a good environment will always cope perfectly.
D)An individual copes with dying similar to the way he or she has coped with other losses or changes throughout life.
2
What current illness symbolizes the worst fears about dying?
A)The Black Plague
B)AIDS
C)Cancer
D)Chronic liver failure
3
Which statement best reflects the closed-awareness context of family interactions in response to a life-threatening illness?
A)Non-verification of the person's illness, although the dying person suspects his or her prognosis may involve death.
B)Lack of communication about the person's illness; therefore, the dying person may not be aware of his or her impending death although others may know about it.
C)Participants sidestep direct communication about the patient's condition.
D)Open acknowledgement of the situation by all parties.
4
Which of the following statements is an example of the open-awareness context of family interactions in response to a life-threatening illness?
A)Acknowledging a terminal illness and that the person is likely to die.
B)Both the patient and other participants act as if the patient will recover.
C)A dying person tests family members in order to elicit information.
D)Not telling the terminally ill patient that he or she is likely to die.
5
How many stages are associated with the model of coping with life-threatening illness presented by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross?
A)Three
B)Four
C)Five
D)Six
6
According to Avery Weisman, the process of coping with a terminal illness can be divided into how many phases?
A)Two
B)Three
C)Four
D)Five
7
According to Charles Corr's model, "sustaining and enhancing significant interpersonal relationships" is related to which dimension in coping with dying?
A)Physical
B)Social
C)Spiritual
D)Psychological
8
What is the aim of meaning-based coping?
A)To manage the problem that is causing distress
B)To regulate the levels of distress
C)To maintain a person's sense of positive well being
D)To not give up goals that are no longer feasible
9
What organization did Kelly Orville form as a national support group for people with life-threatening illness?
A)The Tomorrow Group
B)Forever Young
C)Make Today Count
D)The Compassionate Friends
10
The spreading of cancer to various parts of the body is known as
A)cellular cancer.
B)metastasis.
C)osmosis.
D)transference regeneration.
11
What is the oldest effective form of cancer therapy?
A)Radiation therapy
B)Chemotherapy
C)Surgery
D)Ethnomedicine
12
Which type of therapy makes use of toxic drugs to kill cancer cells?
A)Radiation therapy
B)Surgery
C)Chemotherapy
D)Alternative medicine
13
A patient who imagines a therapeutic agent inside his or her body diminishing the cancer and restoring well-being is employing which type of alternative or complementary therapy?
A)Visualization.
B)Ethnomedicine.
C)Surgery.
D)Radiation.
14
A psychotherapeutic technique used in Japan to assist cancer patients in finding meaning and living life to the fullest is known as
A)Mai Lai Ryoho.
B)Ikigai Ryoho.
C)Pokemon.
D)Koi.
15
Methods of treatment that the medical establishment considers unproved or potentially harmful are called
A)group therapies.
B)radiation therapies.
C)unorthodox therapies.
D)chemotherapy
16
Which is the most common physical symptom in a terminally ill patient?
A)Depression
B)Fear
C)Pain
D)Anger
17
A biological signal of the potential for, or the extent of, injury is best defined as
A)chronic pain.
B)acute pain.
C)patient-controlled analgesia.
D)territorial pain.
18
Which of the following statements about pain is true?
A)Pain can be directly measured.
B)Responses to pain are culturally shaped.
C)Recent therapies can completely eliminate pain in terminal illness.
D)Morphine is never administered to patients as a way of managing pain.
19
Which of the following BEST describes a lingering dying trajectory?
A)When a person dies in a car accident
B)When a patient dies from a progressive disease with a terminal phase
C)When a patient dies from a massive heart attack
D)When a person dies from a disease.
20
What did Eric Cassell write about the social role of the dying patient
A)The death of the body is a physical phenomenon whereas the passing of the person is nonphysical.
B)The passing of a person is a physical phenomenon whereas the death of the body is a nonphysical one.
C)The social role of the dying patient is the same as the social role of other patients.
D)None of the above.





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