Part I Multiple
Choice (30 points)
Instructions: Number
1 through 15 in your Assignment Folder and place the best alternative
(a,b,c,d,e) next to each number.
1. Assisted
suicide:
a) involves
only one person, the one who ends his or her life
b) occurs
when at least two persons are present when the suicide takes place
c) requires
the involvement of a physician
d) all of
the above
e) none of
the above
2. In
Oregon:
a) Voters
twice approved assisted suicide
b) A single
request for assisted suicide must be accepted by health care providers
c) A person
requesting assisted suicide need not demonstrate competence
d) Assisted
suicide is legal
e) Euthanasia
is legal under carefully defined circumstances
3. A
memorial service is
a) an
activity that helps dispose of the body
b) a
ceremony conducted at a cemetery
c) a ritual
without the presence of the body
d) all of
these
4. When an
end of life nurse discusses specific diseases and describes mortality
statistics, this exemplifies which dimension of death-related education?
a) behavioral
b) cognitive
c) valuational
d) effective
5. Three
elements are essential in all bereavement:
a) Anticipation,
depersonalization, and love
b) Loneliness,
shame, and melancholia
c) A valued
relationship, loss, and a survivor
d) Depression,
loss, and cacthexis
e) Grief,
guilt, and decthexis
6. Moral
dilemmas about ending a life in our society most often:
a) have to
do with passive euthanasia
b) relate to
active euthanasia
c) are confined
to issues of assisted suicide
d) are fully
resolvable in good hospice care
e) arise
from advances in technology and treatment
7. A person
who enrolled in a course on death and dying because of distress about someone’s
death a year earlier is expressing concern about:
a) vocational
reasons or enrollment
b) current
death-related experience
c) intellectual
curiosity about the subject
d) an
unresolved death-related experience
e) all of
these
8. Death-related
experiences and issues are not openly discussed with or among children in
contemporary America society because
a) the Amish
showed us difficulties in dealing with death
b) children
receive many messages that death is not an acceptable topic for discussion
c) most
adults fear death and death-related issues
d) society
has very negative feelings about death
e) none of
these
9. “Living
wills” that indicate an individual’s desires about medical treatment
a) are legal
documents mandating no intubation and life-saving medications
b) do not
have legal force in the United States
c) state the
wishes of persons when their health status changes and they become
incapacitated
d) acknowledge
a desire to live and to receive all measures to prevent death
e) apply to
individuals who are terminally ill
10. A 1981
presidential commission proposed a definition of death later codified in the
Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA).
This definition requires or includes:
a) an
invariant procedure for the determination of death
b) reversible
loss of circulatory and respiratory functions
c) irreversible
cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem
d) irreversible
stoppage of the capacity for bodily integration and social interaction
e) a
metaphysical change in the very substance of the being
11. Which of
the following is true in relation to organ donation and transplantation in the
United States?
a) they are
opposed by nearly all major religious communities
b) “brain
dead” individuals might return to life
c) donation
is likely to have a substantive effect on desired general practices
d) costs of
transplantation are paid by donor families
e) none of
these
12. An
arrangement through which one transfers property to a third party with
instructions for its distribution after death while retaining control over the
property during his or her life is call a
a) will
b) gift
c) trust
d) joint
tenancy with right of survivorship
e) codicil
13. Suicide
literally means “killing of oneself.” If
that is all one uses to define suicide, which of the following would not be an
act of suicide?
a) while
playing “Russian roulette,” shooting oneself fatally in the head
b) bungee
jumping that results in one’s death
c) while
high on drugs, walking off a cliff because one believes one can fly, and thus
falling to one’s death
d) driving a
race car which crashes and results in death
e) none of
these
14. In cases
of assisted suicide
a) a
physician helps end a human life
b) an
individual ends his or her own life
c) care
providers cause death by foregoing treatment
d) a second
individual acts directly to bring about the death of another person
e) death is
brought about by a lethal injection
15. If a dying
person’s intentions regarding one’s own death remain unknown and then someone
else takes action to end the person’s life in order to end their suffering, and
the person dies, this is an example of
a) voluntary
euthanasia
b) involuntary
euthanasia
c) nonvoluntary
euthanasia
d) assisted
suicide
e) homicide
