Chapter 19 Quiz

A  bereavement overload

B  unestablished bereavement

C  anticipatory grieving

D  disenfranchised grief

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

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

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

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

A  sibling

B  spouse

C  child

D  parent

A  recover more quickly.

B  experience disenfranchised grief.

C  conclude that they could have prevented the death.

D  engage in anticipatory grieving.

A  do not anticipate grief.

B  seek social support more readily.

C  express distress less directly.

D  express depression less directly.

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

B  authorize mercy killing.

C  guarantee personal control over the right to die.

D  are not recognized in the United States or Canada.

A  passive loss.

B  mandatory passive euthanasia

C  involuntary passive euthanasia.

D  voluntary active euthanasia.

A  voluntary active euthanasia.

B  passive euthanasia.

C  involuntary euthanasia.

D  assisted suicide.

A  only when it replaces use of pain medications.

B  but often upsets family members who desire quiet times.

C  because hearing functions longer than other senses.

D  only when patients are conscious and fully aware.

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

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

C  emphasizes rehabilitation rather than high-quality terminal care.

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

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

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

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

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

A  Middle Eastern

B  Japanese

C  Irish

D  French

A  only in the last weeks or days before death.

B  within the first two months after learning the diagnosis.

C  after bargaining and before depression.

D  only in the last hours or minutes before death.

A  anger

B  denial

C  acceptance

D  bargaining

A  with acceptance.

B  by denying the seriousness of the illness.

C  with anger.

D  by bargaining for extra time.

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

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

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

A  is in the agonal phase of death.

B  is in the mortality phase of death.

C  has entered a persistent vegetative state.

D  is brain dead.

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

B  the individual passes into permanent death.

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

D  resuscitation is still possible.

A  the individual passes into permanent death.

B  resuscitation is no longer possible.

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

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

A  gerontology.

B  thanatology.

C  geriatrics.

D  anthropology.