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1
As related in “Death, Dying, and the Dead in Popular Culture,” to refer to “the presentation and consumption (by visitors) of real and commodified death and disaster sites,” some scholars have adopted the term:
A)commercialized grief.
B)dollars from darkness.
C)dark tourism.
D)morbid vacationing.
2
According to “Death, Dying, and the Dead in Popular Culture,” the slasher film genre has been so pervasive in our culture that the mayor of Los Angeles proclaimed September 13, 1991:
A)Freddy Krueger Day.
B)Hockey Mask Day.
C)Bates Motel Day.
D)Scream Day.
3
As asserted in “Death, Dying, and the Dead in Popular Culture,” young people today appear to be losing their fascination with films that feature violent deaths.
A)True
B)False
4
As cited in “Dealing with the Dead Patient at the Intensive Care Unit,” the philosopher who perceived “the ability to think combined with self awareness over time as the essence of personhood” was:
A)Kant.
B)Locke.
C)Socrates.
D)Kierkegaard.
5
As given in “Dealing with the Dead Patient at the Intensive Care Unit,” one reason why ICU nurses seldom dress deceased adults in private clothing is that this is often practically difficult to do, because of all the:
A)hospital regulations.
B)personnel who have yet to examine the body.
C)arguments among family members over the correct outfit.
D)extra body fluid.
6
As stated in “Dealing with the Dead Patient at the Intensive Care Unit,” the St. Olav hospital procedural manual for post-mortem care discourages the involvement of family members in the process of tending to the dead patient.
A)True
B)False
7
As brought out in “How Much Is More Life Worth?”, pharmaceutical companies maintain that high prices for new drugs are necessary to:
A)satisfy their shareholders.
B)pay the high federal taxes applied to drug companies.
C)recoup the high costs of drug ingredients.
D)meet the extraordinarily high costs of getting new drugs to market.
8
As explained in “How Much Is More Life Worth?”, the patent system for pharmaceuticals is designed to:
A)enrich pharmaceutical-company stockholders.
B)encourage research and development of new drugs by protecting the returns from successful drugs.
C)protect U.S. companies from low-cost foreign knock-offs.
D)enable the federal government to regulate the drug industry.
9
As claimed in “How Much Is More Life Worth?”, extremely expensive drugs are a twenty-first century phenomenon.
A)True
B)False
10
As explained in “Confronting Death,” in their research, the authors identified demographic and psychosocial measures related to each major theme through the use of t tests, which are:
A)hereditary-illness screenings.
B)bivariate analyses.
C)interdisciplinary team evaluations.
D)uni-sectional assessments.
11
As charted in “Confronting Death,” the three themes most often mentioned by the study participants regarding attributes of a good death include all of the following, except:
A)with family around.
B)pain-free.
C)peaceful.
D)asleep.
12
As characterized in “Confronting Death,” all of the patients in the authors’ study had had lung cancer for less than 10 years, with 73 percent being diagnosed in the previous 2 years.
A)True
B)False
13
As reported in “Estimating Excess Mortality in Post-Invasion Iraq,” the leading cause of death among Iraqi males between the ages of 15 and 59 since 2003 has been:
A)undetermined.
B)suicide.
C)environmentally linked disease.
D)violence.
14
According to “Estimating Excess Mortality in Post-Invasion Iraq,” the Iraq Body Count’s tally represents an undercount based on:
A)municipal records.
B)military reports.
C)survey.
D)surveillance.
15
As noted in “Estimating Excess Mortality in Post-Invasion Iraq,” one of the authors of the IFHS was shot and killed on his way to work.
A)True
B)False
16
According to “The Sociology of Death,” medical sociology occasionally placed the dying and their medical attendants in its sights, but the sociology of death did not become identifiable through its own journals and conferences until the:
A)1880s.
B)1940s.
C)1970s
D)1990s.
17
As worded in “The Sociology of Death,” 99 percent of human evolution occurred while people were:
A)barely upright.
B)leaving the primordial ooze.
C)hunter gatherers.
D)shaping their first tools.
18
As pointed out in “The Sociology of Death,” few anthropological studies of death have been explicitly or implicitly functionalist.
A)True
B)False
19
As observed in “Rituals of Unburdening,” when a newborn dies, the words that the physician usually needs to hear right away are most likely to come from:
A)a close friend.
B)a family member.
C)a respected colleague.
D)the child’s parents.
20
As explained in “Rituals of Unburdening,” when a child dies, the case is reviewed at a morbidity and mortality conference:
A)within hours of the death.
B)at some point during the next several weeks.
C)only at the request of the parents.
D)only with the permission of the parents.
21
As characterized in “Rituals of Unburdening,” the unburdening of parents, typically done by the child’s physician, is strikingly similar to the unburdening of the physician, done by one or more colleagues.
A)True
B)False
22
As expressed by Linda in “To Live with No Regrets,” the components of a good death include all of the following EXCEPT:
A)lack of fear.
B)solitude.
C)openness to spirit.
D)love of community.
23
As described in “To Live with No Regrets,” Jack’s death was followed by:
A)immediate burial.
B)cremation.
C)an elaborate church funeral.
D)a three-day, around-the-clock vigil in their home.
24
As noted in “To Live with No Regrets,” Jack and Linda had been married for more than 50 years and had a large family.
A)True
B)False
25
The authors of “’Cast Me Not Off in Old Age’”, believe that people confronting the dilemmas of aging should:
A)delay death as long as possible with any means possible.
B)depend on medical technology to prolong life.
C)learn to accept death in its proper season.
D)demand commitments to help from close family members.
26
As given in “’Cast Me Not Off in Old Age’”, the coming of the mass geriatric society in the United States is:
A)welcomed by all sectors of society.
B)going to be delayed until medical technology improves.
C)a myth.
D)a source of anxiety.
27
According to “’Cast Me Not Off in Old Age’”, while “active killing” may be incompatible with true care-giving, “letting die” is always part of it.
A)True
B)False
28
According to “Caregiving Systems at the End of Life,” the majority of care for terminally ill patients is provided by:
A)hospitals.
B)hospices.
C)private healthcare agencies.
D)families.
29
As explained in “Caregiving Systems at the End of Life,” hospice care is available for people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness that:
A)is non-contagious.
B)involves cancer.
C)will end in death within six weeks.
D)will end in death within six months.
30
As pointed out in “Caregiving Systems at the End of Life,” relatively few studies have explored the issues of families that care for someone with dementia, but numerous studies have investigated the changes that accompany other types of terminal illnesses.
A)True
B)False
31
As brought out in “Needs of Elderly Patients in Palliative Care,” studies have demonstrated that older people are willing to talk about death and dying:
A)in clinical settings much more than anywhere else.
B)in a rather spontaneous way.
C)mostly with those with whom they have a long and trusting relationship.
D)as seldom as possible, and preferably never.
32
As identified in “Needs of Elderly Patients in Palliative Care,” the tertiary physical needs of the interviewed patients mainly concerned the:
A)feeling of feebleness.
B)importance of appearance.
C)desire for good food.
D)desire for comfortable bedding.
33
As interpreted in “Needs of Elderly Patients in Palliative Care,” in the patient interviews, contact with or care for the family came up as a function of both primary and secondary social needs.
A)True
B)False
34
As mentioned in “Altered States: What I’ve Learned about Death & Disability,” discussions about her case remained highly polarized more than a year after the death of:
A)Eva Peron.
B)Karen Ann Quinlan.
C)Princess Diana.
D)Terri Schiavo.
35
As related in “Altered States: What I’ve Learned about Death & Disability,” the author has learned from experience that the go-to person in the emergency room is the:
A)charge nurse.
B)youngest intern.
C)chief surgeon.
D)EMT.
36
As confessed in “Altered States: What I’ve Learned about Death & Disability,” the author continues to reside with and care for her quadriplegic husband for two inflexible reasons: the law says she is responsible for his care, and her religion says it is her duty.
A)True
B)False
37
In the survey discussed in “Life After Death,” it was found that the percentage of people 50 or over who believed in life after death was almost:
A)25 percent.
B)40 percent.
C)50 percent.
D)75 percent.
38
As given in “Life After Death,” confidence that there is a life after death:
A)is strongest among teenagers..
B)increases as people get older.
C)is about the same in all age groups.
D)decreases as people get older.
39
As noted in “Life After Death,” far more people believe that there is a Hell than believe there is a Heaven.
A)True
B)False
40
As quoted in “The Comfort Connection,” Dr. Diane Meier believes strongly that palliative care should not be:
A)considered as important as curative care.
B)administered to hypochondriac patients.
C)a specialized field.
D)the death team.
41
As stated in “The Comfort Connection,” traditional doctors focus only on the disease, while Dr. Meier shifts the balance to:
A)research and recovery.
B)statistics of survival.
C)quality of life.
D)dignified death.
42
As defined in “The Comfort Connection,” palliative care is essentially synonymous with hospice care.
A)True
B)False
43
As set forth in “Are They Hallucinations or Are They Real? The Spirituality of Deathbed and Near-Death Visions,” the author’s study concentrates on the visions that people close to death have of:
A)beings.
B)places.
C)beings and places.
D)neither beings nor places.
44
As explained in “Are They Hallucinations or Are They Real? The Spirituality of Deathbed and Near-Death Visions,” hallucinations are produced by:
A)an active brain.
B)an inactive brain.
C)a healthy brain.
D)a damaged brain.
45
As asserted in “Are They Hallucinations or Are They Real? The Spirituality of Deathbed and Near-Death Visions,” NDEs are rarely profoundly life-changing.
A)True
B)False
46
According to “Dying on the Streets,” the authors found that homeless individuals had:
A)rarely had contact with medical personnel.
B)few concerns or knowledge about EOL care.
C)significant personal experience and feelings about EOL care.
D)no concern about the cost of dying and death.
47
The concerns of the participants in the survey reported on in “Dying on the Streets” included all of the following categories EXCEPT:
A)personal themes.
B)financial issues.
C)relational concerns.
D)environmental influences.
48
As brought out in “Dying on the Streets,” a deficiency in how society has addressed the needs of the dying is that EOL care focuses on individuals with loved ones, health care, and a home and has not considered homeless persons.
A)True
B)False
49
As concluded in “Aging Prisoners’ Concerns Toward Dying in Prison,” what inmates dread most is:
A)being physically attacked.
B)being raped.
C)dying in prison.
D)developing cancer in prison.
50
As explained in “Aging Prisoners’ Concerns Toward Dying in Prison,” important predictors of death fear included all of the following EXCEPT:
A)lack of family.
B)health-related issues.
C)age.
D)inmate social supports.
51
As cited in “Aging Prisoners’ Concerns Toward Dying in Prison,” fear of death among older prisoners is actually far lower than for similar age groups in the community.
A)True
B)False
52
Theoretically, as noted in "Death and the Law," the matter of physician-assisted suicide should be left to the:
A)individual patient.
B)patient's family or other designated representative.
C)federal government.
D)states.
53
According to "Death and the Law," attempts by the government to dictate what is good for the character of the nation vis-à-vis end-of-life issues raise a difficult question:
A)to whose ideology should the law adhere?
B)should we care that terminally ill patients might suffer?
C)do doctors care about their patients?
D)why should a government-local, state, or federal--be involved at all?
54
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft seems to believe that physician-assisted suicide is wrong, as observed in "Death and the Law."
A)True
B)False
55
The author of "What Living Wills Won't Do" warns that, as the population ages, we are entering a period in which death will often be preceded by:
A)vexing legal questions.
B)long-term dementia.
C)palliative care.
D)extended hospital or hospice stays.
56
As explained in "What Living Wills Won't Do," the author notes that the only fully autonomous death is:
A)execution.
B)by accident.
C)suicide.
D)during sleep.
57
The author of "What Living Wills Won't Do" urges readers to consider the need for moral libertarianism and liberal proceduralism in clarifying the roles of caregivers, citizens, and doctors.
A)True
B)False
58
As mentioned in "Ethics and Life's Ending: An Exchange," the terms "ordinary" and "extraordinary," when applied to the medical treatments used to prolong life, have been replaced for some by the terms:
A)traditional and modern.
B)proportionate and disproportionate.
C)palliative and surgical.
D)covered and not covered.
59
According to Robert Orr, as cited in "Ethics and Life's Ending: An Exchange," the two treatments that always remain obligatory are:
A)providing food and water.
B)symptom control and human presence.
C)assisting respiration and monitoring heartbeat.
D)those outlined in a patient's advance directive.
60
As explained in "Ethics and Life's Ending: An Exchange," withholding artificially administered fluids and nutrition from someone unable to swallow results in death from starvation within two weeks.
A)True
B)False
61
As presented in “Suicidal Thoughts among College Students More Common than Expected,” reasons given by survey respondents for thinking about suicide included all of the following except:
A)wanting relief from physical or emotional pain.
B)wanting to be the center of attention.
C)problems with romantic relationships.
D)problems with school or academics.
62
One study, as cited in "When Students Kill Themselves, Colleges May Get the Blame," found that college students, when compared to people in the same age group in the general population, commit suicide:
A)at a lower rate.
B)at a higher rate.
C)at about the same rate.
D)more often by overdosing on pills and alcohol and less often with firearms.
63
According to "When Students Kill Themselves, Colleges May Get the Blame," common claims made by grieving families of students who committed suicide, when filing lawsuits against universities, include all of the following claims EXCEPT that the institution:
A)put the student in harm's way.
B)failed to recognize the warning signs of potential suicide.
C)placed undue academic and social pressure on the student.
D)mishandled the emergency response to the suicide attempt.
64
As cited in "When Students Kill Themselves, Colleges May Get the Blame," fewer than 20 percent of students who seriously consider suicide have received either therapy or antidepressant medication.
A)True
B)False
65
Kraig Windschitl, the organist portrayed in “The Tuneful Funeral,” has as his major objective of playing at funerals to:
A)make sure that the family is consoled through music.
B)keep the music brief.
C)limit the music to religious selections.
D)allow time for all verses of a hymn to be sung.
66
As described in "How Different Religions Pay Their Final Respects," most elements of contemporary burials are characterized by:
A)sacred rituals.
B)respect for the individuality of the deceased.
C)fear of the afterlife.
D)concerns for future generations of the community.
67
As described in "The Arlington Ladies: American Volunteerism at its Most Moving," the vast majority of Arlington Ladies are:
A)members of old aristocratic Virginia families.
B)widows of servicemen.
C)members of the medical profession.
D)retired servicewomen or from military families.
68
As detailed in "The Arlington Ladies: American Volunteerism at its Most Moving," the Arlington Ladies were formed by:
A)Jackie Kennedy, widow of President John F. Kennedy.
B)Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of President Abraham Lincoln.
C)Gladys Vandenberg, wife of Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg.
D)Brigadier General Elizabeth Hoisington, the first female general in the Army.
69
The author of "The Arlington Ladies: American Volunteerism at its Most Moving" found the Arlington Ladies eager to publicize their organization and the work they do.
A)True
B)False
70
As quoted in "Green Graveyards--A Natural Way to Go," Billy Campbell maintains that the burials at Ramsey Creek Preserve honor the idea of:
A)dust to dust.
B)respecting the wishes of the deceased.
C)natural selection.
D)transcendentalism.
71
As noted in "Green Graveyards--A Natural Way to Go," as compared with conventional funerals, burials at Ramsey Creek Preserve cost:
A)about the same.
B)quite a bit more because each site requires more land.
C)less than half as much.
D)as little or as much as the family decides to spend.
72
As disclosed in "Green Graveyards--A Natural Way to Go," Tyler Cassity has been a consultant for the HBO television series “Six Feet Under”.
A)True
B)False
73
As stated in “Social Workers’ Final Act of Service,” the legal term used in reference to people whose estates lack the resources to pay for final arrangements independently is:
A)indigent.
B)impoverished.
C)destitute.
D)insolvent.
74
As reported in “Social Workers’ Final Act of Service,” at a minimum, almost every U.S. resident is entitled to receive a:
A)$255 Social Security death benefit.
B)$540 post-mortem preparation.
C)$400 burial.
D)a death-amenity U.S. flag.
75
As clarified in “Social Workers’ Final Act of Service,” the NIH’s annual statistics for fetal mortalities are now included in the total count of deaths in the United States.
A)True
B)False
76
As pointed out in "The Grieving Process," Thomas Attig makes an important distinction between grief and:
A)sadness.
B)the grieving process.
C)loss.
D)the mourning period.
77
As the authors of "The Grieving Process" note, it is not difficult to see similarities between Kavanaugh's seven behaviors and feelings of the grieving process and the:
A)seven deadly sins.
B)five stages of the dying process identified by Kubler-Ross.
C)stages of man identified by Shakespeare.
D)stages involved in healing after the loss of a relationship through divorce.
78
As asserted in "The Grieving Process," denial is a common experience among the newly bereaved, and it serves positive functions in the process of adaptation.
A)True
B)False
79
Disenfranchised grief, as described in "Disenfranchised Grief," is grief that:
A)cannot be publicly expressed through traditional means.
B)is delayed because the mourner is unable to acknowledge fully the loss.
C)is felt for a celebrity or public figure by people who did not personally know the deceased.
D)is focused on a person or event other than the appropriate one.
80
The author of "Enhancing the Concept of Disenfranchised Grief" makes all of the following points about disenfranchised grief EXCEPT that it:
A)is usually confined to the structural elements of bereavement or to grief understood in a kind of global way.
B)can apply to any or all of the key structural elements in bereavement-relationships, losses, and grievers.
C)involves more than merely overlooking or forgetting to take note of certain types of bereavement and grief.
D)resonates with the experiences of many bereaved persons and of many clinicians and scholars.
81
In today's society, as presented in "The Increasing Prevalence of Complicated Mourning: The Onslaught Is Just Beginning," technological achievements may result in:
A)fewer instances of complicated mourning.
B)greater numbers of people experiencing complicated mourning.
C)new definitions of complicated mourning.
D)better practices for dealing with complicated mourning.
82
As described in "Life Is Like the Seasons: Responding to Change, Loss, and Grief Through a Peer-based Education Program," the Seasons for Growth program is specifically targeted for:
A)preschool children, ages 3 to 6.
B)people of all ages who have experienced loss.
C)older teens and young adults.
D)children of ages 6 to 18.
83
As noted in "Life Is Like the Seasons: Responding to Change, Loss, and Grief Through a Peer-based Education Program," the reason most children participate in a group such as Seasons for Growth is that:
A)they are clinically depressed.
B)they wish to learn how to cope with change.
C)their parents make them participate.
D)their friends join.
84
According to "Life Is Like the Seasons: Responding to Change, Loss, and Grief Through a Peer-based Education Program," a survey of participants in the Seasons for Growth program showed a strong link between program outcomes and the key protective factors for resilient children.
A)True
B)False
85
As presented in "Counseling With Children in Contemporary Society," grief counseling with a child is most beneficial when it:
A)focuses solely on the child and his or her loss.
B)is aimed at helping the child move past grief and get on with his or her life.
C)includes the child's family, friends, school, and other support systems.
D)does not directly address the fearful aspects of death.
86
As suggested in "Counseling With Children in Contemporary Society," a child who feels responsible for his sister's death because he wished that she was dead is probably in the developmental stage identified by Piaget as:
A)concrete operations.
B)prepositional operations.
C)cognitive operations.
D)pre-operational.
87
As noted in "Counseling With Children in Contemporary Society," children tend to deal with all types of death in the same way, whether the death is a result of suicide, illness, homicide, or another cause.
A)True
B)False





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