Cultural Perspectives on Death Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores how different societies understand, experience, and ritualize death, grief, and the afterlife. Through the examination of cross-cultural practices, beliefs, and narratives, students will gain insight into the diverse ways that cultures approach mortality, memorialization, and the meanings attributed to death. The course considers the influence of religion, social structure, and historical context on attitudes toward dying, mourning customs, and the treatment of the dead, offering a comparative framework to understand how death shapes and reflects cultural identity and human values.
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The Last Dance Encountering Death and Dying 10th Edition by Lynne Ann DeSpelder
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Chapter 1: Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change
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Q1) Brief standardized printed statements following the death of an average citizen are called
A)obituaries.
B)death notices.
C)thanatographs.
D)death dirges.
Answer: B
Q2) Popular music devotes significant attention to death.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What are the two leading causes of death in the United States
A)Suicide and Alzheimer's disease
B)Accidents and cancer
C)Alcoholism and stroke
D)Heart disease and cancer
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Learning About Death: Socialization
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Q1) Children who have had first-hand encounters with death tend to
A)still believe in reversible death.
B)avoid any mention of it.
C)deny its existence.
D)have a developmentally more mature understanding of death.
Answer: D
Q2) In the study done by Helen Swain, what percentage of children said that death is unlikely or avoidable
A)95 percent
B)10 percent
C)50 percent
D)66 percent
Answer: D
Q3) In Erikson's model of psychosocial development, in what period is bodily mutilation and disfigurement one of the death related fears
A)Initiative vs.guilt
B)Anxious vs.confused
C)Industry vs.inferiority
D)Identity vs.role confusion
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Perspectives on Death: Historical and Cultural
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Q1) Which of the following are common in the practice of the traditional form of recuerdo
1)Tells the story of a person's life in a heroic manner
2)Is presented as a written narrative or ballad
3)Funeral is referred to as a "home-going" or "adios" ceremony honoring the spirit of the deceased
4)Gathering at the gravesite to bid godspeed to the deceased
A)1 and 2
B)3 and 4
C)1 and 3
D)2 and 4
True / False Questions
Answer: A
Q2) Currently, across the United States, there are fewer than 500 federally recognized Native American nations, few of which share a common set of values, beliefs, and traditions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Death Systems: Mortality and Society
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Q1) An irreversible process of deterioration in the body's systems and organs is
A)clinical decomposition.
B)cellular death.
C)electro-encephalogramic death.
D)brain death.
Q2) What is an irreversible process of deterioration in the body's systems and organs
A)Cellular death
B)Brain death
C)Livor mortis
D)Rigor mortis
Q3) All of the following are methods of determining clinical death EXCEPT
A)cessation of heartbeat.
B)cessation of breathing.
C)decomposition of the body's cells.
D)establishing brain death.
Q4) The United Network for Organ Sharing is under contract with the federal government to maintain lists of people waiting for transplants.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions
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Q1) In what year was the first civilian helicopter medevac program established
A)1970
B)1966
C)1969
D)1965
Q2) When a nurse says to a patient "Oh, you're doing so well," his or her intention is probably to
A)compare him or her to others.
B)avoid discussion and deny seriousness of the ailment.
C)help the patient realize that everybody is cheering him or her on.
D)provide reassurance to the patient.
Q3) Dr.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wanted to
A)educate medical interns about dying patients.
B)set up hospices to care for the terminally ill.
C)educate the media about death and dying in their community.
D)help physicians separate their emotions from their science.
Q4) The health care system includes patient, government and institution.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: End-Of-Life Issues and Decisions
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Q1) In the case involving Nancy Beth Cruzan in 1990, the Missouri Supreme Court ultimately ruled that her parents could have her feeding tube removed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is a state of profound unconsciousness lasting a few days or weeks
A)Persistent vegetative state
B)Minimally conscious state
C)Coma
D)Post-coma unresponsiveness
Q3) In May 2013, which state senate passed and the governor signed the Patient Choice and Control at End-of-Life Act
A)North Carolina
B)New Mexico
C)Vermont
D)New Hampshire
Q4) Paramedics and EMT's are legally required to initiate CPR unless there is clear evidence of a valid DNR order.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Facing Death: Living With Life-Threatening Illness
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Q1) What is visualization
A)The patient imagines what the afterlife will be like.
B)The patient imagines the therapeutic agent inside the body helping to restore well-being.
C)It is a meeting of terminally ill patients gathered to discuss how their families will deal with their deaths.
D)Through the integration of emotions and cognitions, patients bring about changes in their families' perceptions about death and the afterlife.
Q2) Terminal restlessness is a welcomed medical condition showing the ability to maintain attention at the end-of-life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Cancer symbolizes the
A)number ten cause of death in America.
B)worst fears of our age.
C)disease for passive-type people.
D)status of a fatal disease.
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Chapter 8: Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition
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Q1) "Spontaneous shrines" may be seen on walls, roadsides, and via the internet.
A)True
B)False
Q2) President Lincoln's funeral procession increased awareness of the practice of A)embalming.
B)flying flags at half-mast.
C)reparation.
D)cremation.
Q3) Most people appear satisfied with the quality of service provided by their local mortuaries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Burying "grave goods" with the dead promotes the expression of grief.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Funeral and memorial societies are organizations which were formed to A)provide economic and simple after-death arrangements to members. B)provide support group networking.
C)unite against the funeral industry to regulate pricing.
D)memorialize important figures in history.
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Chapter 9: Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss
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Q1) Margaret Stroebe points out that suppression or avoidance of confrontation with memories related to the deceased is risky and an ineffective strategy of coping.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With respect to grief, someone operating systemically will likely experience and express grief emotionally.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of the following modes of death, which is most likely to be characterized as a low-grief death
A)Homicide of a teenager
B)Hit and run death of a child
C)Terminal illness of an elderly man
D)Suicide of a friend
Q4) Which of the following typically occurs during the initial period of grief
A)Pining for the deceased
B)Sadness gradually recedes into the background
C)Sense of confusion and disorganization
D)Intense re-experiencing of the history of the relationship with the deceased
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Chapter 10: Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents
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Q1) When talking to children about death, it is important to
A)not hesitate in giving sophisticated explanations.
B)assume they have no beliefs about death.
C)avoid teachable moments and wait for a crisis.
D)verify and clarify what they think you've told them.
Q2) Which of the following coping mechanisms are used by children to cope with a serious illness
1)Making a deal that allows a desire to be filled once the pain is endured
2)Limiting the number of people with whom they have close relationships
3)Taking a "be-brave-and-strong" stance
4)Regressing to behaviors that are less demanding
A)1, 2, and 3
B)1, 2, and 4
C)1, 3, and 4
D)2, 3, and 4
Q3) When discussing death in conjunction with religious beliefs, parents should
A)tell them that God needed another angel.
B)remind children that the world functions in mysterious ways.
C)introduce children to other religious viewpoints.
D)remind children that religious viewpoints are beliefs.
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Chapter 11: Death in the Lives of Adults
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Q1) Young adults generally have accurate expectations about the process of aging and being old.
A)True B)False
Q2) Artist Käthe Kollwitz used art as a means of working through her sorrow following the death of a child.
A)True B)False
Q3) If a marriage has involved the partners living traditional gender roles, which of the following statements is likely to be true in the case of spousal bereavement
A)Widowed persons whose life styles include multiple roles appear to have a tougher adjustment to spousal bereavement.
B)New skills may need to be learned to manage the needs of daily life.
C)Widowed persons tend to rebound quickly after the death of an abusive spouse.
D)Widowed persons, male and female, appear to experience about the same degree of negative effects.
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Chapter 12: Suicide
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes unintentioned death
A)Death resulting from a person's patterns of management or style of living, although death is not the conscious, direct aim of the person's actions
B)Death resulting from the individual's direct, conscious behavior
C)Death in which the decedent plays no significant causative role
D)Death resulting from "living on the brink"
Q2) Within the "intentioned death" category of death-related behaviors, a death seeker is someone who
A)expects to die in the near future and wants to choose the time and circumstances of death.
B)believes that death ends only physical existence and that the person continues to exist in another manner.
C)wishes to end consciousness and commits a suicidal act in such a way that rescue is unlikely.
D)gambles with death.
Q3) Suicide involves diverse motives and intentions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Risks, Perils, and Traumatic Death
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Q1) The term psychic maneuver is used to describe
A)a stress reaction also known as "shell shock."
B)a sudden death as a result of occupational stress and fatigue.
C)factors that facilitate homicidal acts.
D)a method of coping with the consequences of modern technological warfare.
Q2) In 1918, as many as 40 million people died from the influenza virus.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The aim of terrorism is to
A)enhance military and government operations.
B)destroy the sense of security people normally feel in familiar places.
C)fund underground militant groups.
D)destroy working relations among nations.
Q4) Genocide involves efforts to
A)determine the biological roots of violence.
B)destroy an entire national or political group.
C)eradicate social practices that favor violence.
D)modify genetic factors that cause violence.
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Chapter 14: Beyond Deathafter Life
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Q1) Hades was typically pictured as
A)an inviting resting place.
B)a sea of tranquility.
C)a shadowy place evoking despair.
D)a heroic mortal evoking serenity.
Q2) The ancient Greeks stressed the survival of the
A)ruling class and elite.
B)educated and fit.
C)polis and community.
D)soul and eternity.
Q3) Which of the following is a core element associated with near-death experiences
A)Altered self-esteem
B)Departing from the body
C)Taking an afterlife pilgrimage
D)Making a journey to the underworld
Q4) Pictures of ultimate states and doctrines of last things are referred to as A)symbolic immortalities.
B)eschatologies.
C)religiosities.
D)cosmologies.
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Chapter 15: The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices
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Q1) "The desire for immortality has its own pitfalls" is a message communicated in a A)Chinese folktale.
B)Irish legend.
C)Native American proverb.
D)Shamanic tale.
Q2) According to Avery Weisman, what is the first step required in order to achieve an appropriate death
A)Rid ourselves of the notion that death is appropriate.
B)Rid ourselves of the notion that death is never appropriate.
C)Determine what we need to do to have an appropriate death.
D)Determine how to define an appropriate death.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a specialized support and advocacy group
A)The Mortal Kings
B)Sibs in Sync
C)Parents of Murdered Children
D)Will-Lee's Dream
Q4) Kastenbaum says that the good death is simply the final phase of good living, good aging, good care, and not-so-good luck.
A)True
B)False
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