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1
According to "Grief in the Age of Facebook," the author should have known that something was seriously wrong when her student contacted her
A)in person.
B)by e-mail.
C)with a written note.
D)by telephone.
2
One of the first ways in which Casey's fellow students responded to her death, as described in "Grief in the Age of Facebook," was to
A)leave her a personal message on Facebook.
B)change their Facebook profile pictures.
C)establish a memorial page for her on Facebook.
D)choose to gather in person rather than communicate via Facebook.
3
In spite of the best efforts of Casey's closest friends, as noted in "Grief in the Age of Facebook," they were unable to contact some of her friends before they learned of her death via Facebook.
A)True
B)False
4
As expressed in "The Proliferation of Postselves in American Civic and Popular Cultures," the dead, like the contemporary old, supposedly occupy a
A)meaningless meaning.
B)futureless future.
C)roleless role.
D)hopeless hope.
5
As explained in "The Proliferation of Postselves in American Civic and Popular Cultures," in recent years, quantum physicists have demonstrated a phenomenon where particles can be at two places at once and that change in one simultaneously alters the other—a phenomenon they call
A)entanglement.
B)simulmorphing.
C)parallel transference.
D)symbiotic pairing.
6
As cited in "The Proliferation of Postselves in American Civic and Popular Cultures," various surveys show that fewer than 6 out of 10 Americans fully expect an afterlife.
A)True
B)False
7
As expressed in "Roadside Memorial Policies in the United States," roadside memorials differ from cemeteries, where death is
A)trivialized.
B)literally buried.
C)kept in order.
D)celebrated.
8
As noted in "Roadside Memorial Policies in the United States," in the Southwest, the memorial markers of traffic fatality locations evolved from the sanctified holy rest areas known in Spanish as
A)iglesias.
B)cementerios.
C)casas de los angeles.
D)descansos.
9
As pointed out in "Roadside Memorial Policies in the United States," no U.S. state allocates specific funds in its annual DOT budget for the erection, maintenance, and/or removal of roadside memorials.
A)True
B)False
10
Differences in brain death guidelines, as reported in "Brain Death Guidelines Vary at Top US Neurological Hospitals," can have significant implications in terms of
A)donor organ procurement.
B)hospital billing and record keeping.
C)relationships with patients' families.
D)patients' basic trust in hospitals.
11
According to "Brain Death Guidelines Vary at Top US Neurological Hospitals," the study authors were particularly concerned over the variability of
A)guideline performance.
B)ancillary tests.
C)apnea testing.
D)clinical examination.
12
Although there are guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology, as pointed out in "Brain Death Guidelines Vary at Top US Neurological Hospitals," these guidelines are not binding at the local level.
A)True
B)False
13
Today, as maintained in "Criteria for a Good Death," suicide is thought of primarily as a
A)sin.
B)crime.
C)momentary impulse.
D)mental-health issue.
14
Essentially, as put forth in "Criteria for a Good Death," a good death is one that is
A)painless.
B)appropriate for the individual.
C)accompanied by spiritual care.
D)unexpected and instantaneous.
15
The terms "good" and "death," as noted in "Criteria for a Good Death," are generally thought of as oxymoronic or mutually exclusive.
A)True
B)False
16
Healthy children, as asserted in "Death in Disney Films," only achieve a true understanding of death as irreversible, permanent, and inevitable once they have reached the age of
A)5
B)10
C)12
D)15
17
During the first stage of grief, involving an understanding of what death is, as described in "Death in Disney Films," it is important for young children to realize that
A)the dead person is not coming back to life.
B)there are set cultural rituals to cope with death.
C)even their parents feel sad and are grieving.
D)they and their immediate family are not in danger.
18
The understanding that death may not be final, arising from family religious belief, as pointed out in "Death in Disney Films," may reflect a more, rather than less, mature understanding of death.
A)True
B)False
19
According to "Teaching Children about Death and Grief," one of the best tools for teaching children about the circle of life and death is
A)a visit to a nursing home.
B)reading newspaper obituaries to them.
C)animals and nature.
D)having a police officer give them the facts.
20
As presented in "Teaching Children about Death and Grief," a teachable moment
A)can last for days.
B)is a special educational opportunity.
C)works better with girls than boys.
D)is ineffective with children below middle-school age.
21
As pointed out in "Teaching Children about Death and Grief," the first loss that many children experience is the death of a pet.
A)True
B)False
22
The trauma children experience losing a parent in the military, as set forth in "Helping Military Kids Cope with Traumatic Death," can easily be heightened by
A)attempts to return to a "normal" routine.
B)the grief their remaining parent experiences.
C)how the topic is approached in school.
D)each new instance of military death reported in the media.
23
Developmentally, as explained in "Helping Military Kids Cope with Traumatic Death," young children live in an egocentric world in which they believe
A)they are responsible for anything that happens.
B)no one will ever leave them.
C)their feelings at the time will last forever.
D)their parents do not have separate feelings of their own.
24
Following the death of a parent, as maintained in "Helping Military Kids Cope with Traumatic Death," children may react in ways that are unpredictable or difficult to understand because their world now seems unsafe and unpredictable.
A)True
B)False
25
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.
26
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.
27
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
28
According to "End of Life Concerns and Care Preferences," the principal concern shared by elders and family caregivers in terminal-illness situations is
A)taking too much medicine.
B)fear of pain.
C)running out of money.
D)losing sanity.
29
As noted in "End of Life Concerns and Care Preferences," all of the participants in the study
A)lived in assisted-living facilities.
B)had no more than one chronic condition.
C)spoke English.
D)lived alone.
30
As reported in "End of Life Concerns and Care Preferences," the majority of the caregivers reported that caring for their elders had become a burden.
A)True
B)False
31
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.
32
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.
33
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
34
As noted in "Death and Dying across Cultures," the Bible's command to "keep abstaining from . . . blood" is interpreted as the prohibition of the transfusion of blood and/or blood products by
A)Mormons.
B)Jehovah's Witnesses.
C)Orthodox Jews.
D)Roman Catholics.
35
As defined in "Death and Dying across Cultures," in the Arabic language, a "sheikh" is an Islamic
A)warrior.
B)scholar.
C)infidel.
D)paramour.
36
As observed in "Death and Dying across Cultures," when it comes to dealing with a family's cultural beliefs regarding death and dying, a simple discussion with the family explaining hospital and unit policies will usually lead nowhere.
A)True
B)False
37
The spirits that dying people frequently see, as reported in "Are They Hallucinations or Are They Real?", often bring the dying a sense of
A)dread.
B)acute loss.
C)bliss.
D)wonder.
38
According to "Are They Hallucinations or Are They Real?", the researcher R. Conant argues that the visions of the deceased should be regarded as
A)delusions to be dismissed.
B)successful coping mechanisms.
C)a symptom of disease.
D)reassuring fantasies.
39
Thanatologists, as noted in "Are They Hallucinations or Are They Real?", have long been aware that people who are very near death often see spirits if they have been heavily sedated.
A)True
B)False
40
Much of the growth in the use of hospice care in recent years, as reported in "A Spreading Appreciation for the Benefits of Hospice Care," can be attributed to its use by
A)patients with heart disease.
B)severely wounded veterans.
C)children with advanced disease.
D)Alzheimer's patients.
41
Hospice care, as explained in "A Spreading Appreciation for the Benefits of Hospice Care," is generally provided in
A)a designated hospice facility.
B)the patient's home.
C)at a hospital.
D)in an assisted-living facility.
42
According to "A Spreading Appreciation for the Benefits of Hospice Care," Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans will cover the costs of hospice care.
A)True
B)False
43
According to "When Death Strikes Without Warning," families generally learn about Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) when
A)a loved one has died.
B)a patient has lived with the condition for years.
C)the patient's life is at risk from other causes.
D)epilepsy is first diagnosed.
44
Chris Donalty, as profiled in "When Death Strikes Without Warning," probably never told his parents he was still regularly suffering epileptic seizures because he
A)did not want to worry them.
B)was concerned he would be forced to drop out of college.
C)did not want to lose his driver's license.
D)was afraid his girlfriend would break up with him if she knew.
45
Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), as stated in "When Death Strikes Without Warning," has only appeared in the medical literature in the past decade.
A)True
B)False
46
According to "Self-Harming Behavior and Suicidality: Suicide Risk Assessment," approximately two thirds of completed suicides occur
A)on the first attempt.
B)after several attempts.
C)during holidays and school vacations.
D)away from home.
47
As related in "Self-Harming Behavior and Suicidality: Suicide Risk Assessment," studies of psychiatric patients have shown that suicide risk is highest
A)immediately after admission to the hospital.
B)four to six weeks after discharge from the hospital.
C)during a stay in the hospital that exceeds one week.
D)immediately after discharge from the hospital.
48
As noted in "Self-Harming Behavior and Suicidality: Suicide Risk Assessment," an often-overlooked aspect of the suicide risk assessment is the clinician's effort to understand the subjective inner experience of the patient.
A)True
B)False
49
As set forth in "Effects of Race and Precipitating Event on Suicide Versus Nonsuicide Death Classification in a College Sample," the authors hypothesized that their study participants would be more likely to classify a vignette subject's death as suicide as a function of the vignette subject's race across the sum of three conditions that include all of the following, except
A)academic failure.
B)relationship difficulties.
C)financial distress.
D)terminal illness.
50
According to "Effects of Race and Precipitating Event on Suicide Versus Nonsuicide Death Classification in a College Sample," the problem of hidden and "non-confirmed" suicide has been systematically scrutinized in order to improve suicide-prevention efforts in Islamic nations and in
A)Latin America.
B)Scandinavia.
C)Great Britain.
D)the U.S. military.
51
As concluded in "Effects of Race and Precipitating Event on Suicide Versus Nonsuicide Death Classification in a College Sample," in the case of suicide, the assessment, decision-making, and handling of relevant information is especially variable across ethnic groups.
A)True
B)False
52
According to "Ethical, Legal, and Practical Issues in the Control and Regulation of Suicide Promotion and Assistance over the Internet," meeting suicide companions online appears to be most prominent in
A)Poland.
B)Japan.
C)Australia.
D)India.
53
In most countries, as set forth in "Ethical, Legal, and Practical Issues in the Control and Regulation of Suicide Promotion and Assistance over the Internet," there is little or no control of Internet content because
A)government agencies are unaware of the dangers some online sites present.
B)there is little empirical support for the view that the Internet can influence actual behavior.
C)such controls would violate free speech guarantees.
D)no single government agency has control over the Internet.
54
Although many countries have laws prohibiting aiding and abetting suicide, as pointed out in "Ethical, Legal, and Practical Issues in the Control and Regulation of Suicide Promotion and Assistance over the Internet," there have not been any cases in which Internet activity has been pursued in a court of law for aiding or abetting suicide.
A)True
B)False
55
As presented in "Why We Need Qualitative Research in Suicidology," a very coarse classification of the major part of the current suicidological research results in three groups of studies, including all of the following, except
A)epidemiological research.
B)(neuro)biological research.
C)intervention studies.
D)nonlinear studies.
56
As defined in "Why We Need Qualitative Research in Suicidology," the term "hermeneutics" refers to
A)experimental methodology.
B)the study of suicide.
C)the theory of interpretation.
D)quantitative approaches.
57
As reported in "Why We Need Qualitative Research in Suicidology," in the period 2005–2007, less than three percent of the studies published in the three main international suicidological journals had used qualitative methods.
A)True
B)False
58
Through an online suicide message board, as explained in "A Search for Death," Suzy Gonzalez learned how to obtain potassium cyanide by posing as a
A)farmer.
B)exterminator.
C)jeweler.
D)chemist.
59
Copycat suicides, as noted in "A Search for Death," are most likely to be triggered by the suicide of a
A)popular classmate.
B)celebrity.
C)relative.
D)member of the military.
60
All of the websites reviewed for "A Search for Death," allow entrance to individuals intending to persuade users not to commit suicide.
A)True
B)False
61
As noted in "Good Mourning," our first childhood death experience typically is around the age of
A)4
B)8
C)14
D)17
62
As identified in "Good Mourning," an unsympathetic response to one who is suffering the loss of a pet is known as
A)ridiculed emotion.
B)social nonsupport.
C)disenfranchised grief.
D)dismissive condolence.
63
According to "Good Mourning," the majority of companion-animal owners opt to stay with the animal during the procedure of euthanasia.
A)True
B)False
64
A person's feelings and reaction connected to the loss of a pet, as described in "When a Cherished Pet Dies," are likely to depend on all of the following except
A)whether or not some pet has always been a part of a person's life.
B)the nature of the relationship with the pet.
C)how long the pet was part of the person's life.
D)if the death was sudden or gradual.
65
People should seek professional counseling to help them cope with their grief over losing a pet, as mentioned in "When a Cherished Pet Dies," if they
A)do not find their friends and family supportive.
B)continue to become upset at seeing other people with their pets.
C)find their sadness or pain has grown over time.
D)have no desire to ever have another pet.
66
For many people, as explained in "When a Cherished Pet Dies," the loss of a loved pet means the loss of a significant relationship.
A)True
B)False
67
As cited in "An Examination of the Potential Role of Pet Ownership, Human Social Support and Pet Attachment in the Psychological Health of Individuals Living Alone," the 2003 study by Turner, Rieger, and Gytax found that attachment to pets and living situation had interactive effects on psychological health, as assessed through a measure of
A)positive mood.
B)physical manifestations.
C)social activity.
D)facial expressions.
68
As specified in "An Examination of the Potential Role of Pet Ownership, Human Social Support and Pet Attachment in the Psychological Health of Individuals Living Alone," in the authors' study group of 132 Canadians, the "non-pet owners" were defined as individuals who did not own a pet
A)of any type.
B)dog or cat.
C)of any species other than fish.
D)and had not lost a pet within the past six months.
69
As remarked in "An Examination of the Potential Role of Pet Ownership, Human Social Support and Pet Attachment in the Psychological Health of Individuals Living Alone," it is noteworthy that one study (Zasloff and Kidd, 1994) found that the relationship between attachment and living situation held only for dogs, not cats.
A)True
B)False
70
The end-of-life care Kramer is receiving, as presented in "Veterinary Hospice," is mainly focused on keeping his tumor in check
A)so the cancer does not spread.
B)so it can eventually be removed entirely.
C)with extensive chemotherapy.
D)to minimize discomfort and enable him to eat.
71
Although her initial visit is intended to detect pain in an animal, as described in "Veterinary Hospice," Dr. Liz Palmer believes it is equally important to assess
A)the care the animal has received throughout its life.
B)the animal's home environment.
C)how prepared the family is to care for a dying pet.
D)any medical conditions that may have been overlooked or misdiagnosed.
72
Most veterinarians practicing end-of-life care, as cited in "Veterinary Hospice," believe that euthanasia is employed too late and that animals are often suffering longer than they should.
A)True
B)False
73
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.
74
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.
75
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
76
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.
77
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.
78
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
79
According to "Cannabis Use in Long-Term Care: An Emerging Issue for Nurses," the medicinal properties of Cannabis sativa have
A)never been formally documented.
B)been documented for thousands of years.
C)been largely rejected by Western medicine.
D)been a matter of controversy only in the past two decades.
80
As mentioned in "Cannabis Use in Long-Term Care: An Emerging Issue for Nurses," the advocacy group that dedicates a website to explaining medicinal cannabis laws state by state is called
A)Patients Out of Time.
B)Americans for Safe Access.
C)National Nurses United.
D)NORML.
81
As noted in "Cannabis Use in Long-Term Care: An Emerging Issue for Nurses," marijuana was legally available in the United States until the beginning of the 20th century.
A)True
B)False
82
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.
83
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.
84
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
85
As profiled in "I Was a Doctor Accustomed to Death, but Not His," the author's grandfather had served in World War II as
A)a code breaker for the British government.
B)a field surgeon in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
C)an immigration officer at Ellis Island.
D)a Russian intelligence agent.
86
As mentioned in "I Was a Doctor Accustomed to Death, but Not His," before becoming a doctor, the author's grandfather was employed as all of the following, except a
A)boxer.
B)milkman.
C)scientist.
D)violinist.
87
According to "I Was a Doctor Accustomed to Death, but Not His," the Miami Jewish Health Systems is the site of one of the largest nursing homes in the United States.
A)True
B)False
88
As explained in "The Contemporary American Funeral," in order for grief to occur in most cases, a person
A)needs to attend the funeral.
B)must have loved the deceased.
C)should view the body of the deceased.
D)needs to cry.
89
As mentioned in "The Contemporary American Funeral," in America a funeral is generally an occasion to which no one is invited but
A)people are expected to come.
B)newspaper notification is considered sufficient.
C)all may come.
D)family.
90
As cited in "The Contemporary American Funeral," Erich Lindemann believes that viewing the body of the deceased is important so that bereaved persons can accept the finality of death.
A)True
B)False
91
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.
92
As related in "Building My Father's Coffin," the author's father asked that his body be
A)flown to England for one final visit.
B)buried in the woods of the family campground.
C)placed in a plain pine box.
D)laid out in a cherrywood coffin with ceramic handles.
93
As recalled in "Building My Father's Coffin," the author realized that his modest woodworking skills had diminished since becoming afflicted by
A)Parkinson's disease.
B)carpal tunnel syndrome.
C)rheumatoid arthritis.
D)cataracts.
94
As described in "Building My Father's Coffin," the author convinced his sister to get into the homemade coffin to test its strength and portability.
A)True
B)False
95
As concluded in "Dealing with the Dead," wearing something that belonged to a dead loved one
A)is a way of keeping the person "alive."
B)trivializes the person's life.
C)is pointless.
D)shows weakness.
96
As recounted in "Dealing with the Dead," the first item that the author took to wearing after a family member's death was
A)her stepfather's sweater.
B)a sweater that her father-in-law loved.
C)a necklace of her mother's mother.
D)a pair of her mother's shoes.
97
The author of "Dealing with the Dead" feels that wearing the clothes of someone she loved is disrespectful to the dead person.
A)True
B)False
98
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.
99
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.
100
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
101
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.
102
As discussed in "Disenfranchised Grief," when grief is disenfranchised
A)people are unable to experience it.
B)feelings of guilt, anger, or powerlessness can be lessened.
C)feelings of guilt and anger are lessened, while feelings of powerlessness are intensified.
D)feelings of guilt, anger, or powerlessness can be intensified.
103
As noted in "Disenfranchised Grief," the proportion of disenfranchised grievers in the general population will rise rapidly in the future.
A)True
B)False
104
As put forth in "Challenging the Paradigm: New Understandings of Grief," Wortman and Silver's 1989 article "The Myths of Coping With Loss" crystallized a challenge to what might be called the
A)great anguish analysis.
B)step-by-step model.
C)one-size-fits-all strategy.
D)grief work hypothesis.
105
As explained in "Challenging the Paradigm: New Understandings of Grief," the conceptual belief that one must work through powerful feelings in order to detach from the deceased, reinvest in life, and recover from and resolve the loss originally derived from Freud's seminal 1917 article entitled
A)"Mourning and Melancholia."
B)"Grief and Grieving."
C)"Death and Despair."
D)"Loss and Lethargy."
106
As referred to in "Challenging the Paradigm: New Understandings of Grief," in 1999, Stroebe and Schut offered a dual-process model, suggesting that successful coping in bereavement means oscillating between loss-oriented and restoration-oriented processes.
A)True
B)False
107
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.
108
As stated in "Enhancing the Concept of Disenfranchised Grief," an example of a type of death that may in itself be "disenfranchising" is a death
A)of a very old person.
B)of a person who has long fought against cancer.
C)involving dementia.
D)involving AIDS.
109
A grief that is disenfranchised in one social context may not be disenfranchised in another social context, as asserted in "Enhancing the Concept of Disenfranchised Grief."
A)True
B)False
110
As referred to in "We've Been Misled about How to Grieve," the milestone 1969 book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, which proposed that a person confronting his or her own death passes through five stages, is titled
A)On Death and Dying.
B)Stage Doors.
C)The Art of Grieving.
D)The Universal Journey.
111
As cited in "We've Been Misled about How to Grieve," grief specialist Nancy Moules recalls a client whose response to the loss of her six-year-old daughter involved
A)carrying her daughter's ashes everywhere she went.
B)playing with her daughter's dolls every afternoon.
C)never allowing anyone to mention her daughter's name.
D)sealing off her daughter's bedroom.
112
As put forth in "We've Been Misled about How to Grieve," studies show that people who undergo bereavement counseling emerge from grief no more quickly than people who do not.
A)True
B)False
113
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.
114
The following are three main difficulties in defining "complicated mourning," as identified in "The Increasing Prevalence of Complicated Mourning: The Onslaught Is Just Beginning," EXCEPT
A)imprecise and inconsistent terminology.
B)a lack of objective criteria.
C)the presence of premorbid psychological episodes.
D)mourning is highly idiosyncratic.
115
According to "The Increasing Prevalence of Complicated Mourning: The Onslaught Is Just Beginning," a syndrome is not necessarily more pathological than a group of symptoms that clusters together.
A)True
B)False
116
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.
117
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.
118
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
119
As suggested in "11 Ways to Comfort Someone Who's Grieving," when writing a note to a grieving person, including a funny anecdote is
A)always appropriate.
B)never appropriate.
C)appropriate only if you are closely related to the recipient.
D)appropriate if you had a relationship with the deceased.
120
As expressed in "11 Ways to Comfort Someone Who's Grieving," people who are grieving sometimes direct angry feelings toward
A)everyone.
B)inanimate objects.
C)their pets.
D)the closest target.
121
As noted in "11 Ways to Comfort Someone Who's Grieving," it is universally acceptable to say something like "It's God's will" to the bereaved person.
A)True
B)False





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