Health Quiz
Chapter 21
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Choose the BEST answer for each of the questions listed below.

1. An accident victim has been kept on a respirator, heart beating, in deep coma. Doctors now say the victim is brain dead, and the family tells the doctors to remove the respirator. Without respiration, the patient's heart stops. Is the act of removing the respirator euthanasia, and if so, what type?

A. It is not euthanasia because the victim was considered dead.
B. It is not euthanasia because the victim's heart might have continued beating after the respirator was removed.
C. It is direct euthanasia, because the person was only considered dead when the heart stopped beating, and this action caused the heart to stop.
D. It is indirect euthanasia, because the person was only considered dead when the heart stopped beating, but this action was not the real cause of death.

2. Physician-assisted suicide is most similar to which of the following?

A. negligence
B. direct euthanasia
C. indirect euthanasia
D. comfort measures only

3. Thirty-eight-year-old Benito has been told that he has inoperable cancer, and he feels now that God has cheated him out of a full life. Which of Kübler-Ross's stages of dying is he experiencing?

A. anger
B. denial
C. bargaining
D. depression

4. The first emotional stage that dying people typically experience is

A. anger
B. denial
C. depression
D. acceptance

5. Among those people who are closest to a dying person, it has been observed that

A. more than half maintain a powerful denial almost to the end.
B. many go through the same emotional stages as the dying person.
C. their other relationships tend to weaken as they draw near to the dying person.
D. communication with the dying person usually decreases steadily until he or she dies.

6. A common theme that runs through many different people's near-death experiences is

A. facing judgment.
B. being lifted up by angels.
C. assuming a different identity.
D. having to decide whether to leave or stay.

7. The best advice for interacting with a dying person is to be

A. optimistic.
B. energetic.
C. cautious.
D. honest.

8. Three-year-old Jeffrey's father has just died. The best way to communicate with Jeffrey is to tell him

A. that Daddy died and isn't coming back.
B. that Daddy went to sleep.
C. that Daddy went away.
D. nothing.

9. Of the following, the best advice for coping with the death of one's child is to

A. give the child's possessions to other loved ones or a worthwhile charity.
B. try to have another child as soon as possible.
C. avoid major changes in your lives.
D. do not dwell on the child's death.

10. The main purpose of hospice care is to

A. provide a quasi-hospital setting for terminally ill patients.
B. permit people to die in peace and comfort.
C. keep down hospital costs.
D. control pain.