Chapter 19 Quiz

A  bereavement overload

B  disenfranchised grief

C  unestablished bereavement

D  anticipatory grieving

A  Many children say they actively maintain mental contact with their dead parent or sibling, dreaming about and speaking to them frequently.

B  In follow-up studies, children report that they rarely think about the deceased parent or sibling after one to three years.

C  Typically, children experience physical symptoms of grief for a few weeks and then experience more internal symptoms.

D  Children grieving the loss of a parent or sibling suffer fewer physical symptoms than adults grieving the loss of a partner or child.

A  spouse

B  parent

C  sibling

D  child

A  experience disenfranchised grief.

B  recover more quickly.

C  engage in anticipatory grieving.

D  conclude that they could have prevented the death.

A  express depression less directly.

B  seek social support more readily.

C  express distress less directly.

D  do not anticipate grief.

A  state in writing the desired end-of-life medical treatment.

B  authorize mercy killing.

C  are not recognized in the United States or Canada.

D  guarantee personal control over the right to die.

A  voluntary active euthanasia.

B  involuntary passive euthanasia.

C  passive loss.

D  mandatory passive euthanasia

A  passive euthanasia.

B  voluntary active euthanasia.

C  assisted suicide.

D  involuntary euthanasia.

A  because hearing functions longer than other senses.

B  only when patients are conscious and fully aware.

C  only when it replaces use of pain medications.

D  but often upsets family members who desire quiet times.

A  death often triggers feelings of anger, frustration, and confusion.

B  provides spiritual and emotional support, but not palliative care.

C  aims to provide a caring community sensitive to the dying person’s needs.

D  emphasizes rehabilitation rather than high-quality terminal care.

A  talk openly and honestly about his condition, so that he can focus on resolving family conflicts before he dies.

B  pretend there is nothing wrong in an attempt to prevent unnecessary stress.

C  avoid informing him of his condition because they believe doing so hastens death.

D  forbid the doctors to talk to him about his condition because it will bring bad fortune to the family.

A  French

B  Irish

C  Middle Eastern

D  Japanese

A  only in the last hours or minutes before death.

B  within the first two months after learning the diagnosis.

C  after bargaining and before depression.

D  only in the last weeks or days before death.

A  anger

B  bargaining

C  acceptance

D  denial

A  by denying the seriousness of the illness.

B  by bargaining for extra time.

C  with acceptance.

D  with anger.

A  with deep faith in some form of higher force or being.

B  who believe in a rewarding afterlife but rarely pray or attend services.

C  who do not believe in a higher force or being.

A  is in the mortality phase of death.

B  is brain dead.

C  is in the agonal phase of death.

D  has entered a persistent vegetative state.

A  the individual’s regular heartbeat disintegrates, causing muscle spasms and gasping.

B  resuscitation is still possible.

C  the individual passes into permanent death.

D  the heartbeat, circulation, breathing, and brain functioning stop.

A  heartbeat, circulation, breathing, and brain functioning stop.

B  the individual’s regular heartbeat disintegrates, causing muscle spasms and gasping.

C  resuscitation is no longer possible.

D  the individual passes into permanent death.

A  gerontology.

B  thanatology.

C  anthropology.

D  geriatrics.