Question 1

To avoid the danger of stereotyping in analyzing cultural diversity among Americans with regard to death, dying, and bereavement, one must appreciate .

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A)   individuality in particular persons
B)   differences between various cultural groups
C)   differences within various cultural groups
D)   All of these
E)   None of these D

Question 2

A major reason that Hispanic Americans had a comparatively low number of deaths in 2014 is:

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A)   Hispanic Americans have a healthier diet than do other Americans.
B)   Hispanic Americans have largely kept separated from the rest of American society.
C)   There is a wide gap between the infant mortality rates among Hispanic Americans and other cultural groups in the United States.
D)   More Hispanic Americans are recent immigrants than other groups in American society.
E)   The Hispanic American population has a greater proportion of young persons than other cultural groups in the United States.

Question 3

Mourning practices among Hispanic Americans often involve .

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A)   an emphasis on grief in men
B)   the absence of children
C)   public expression of emotion by women
D)   strong prohibitions against revealing intense feelings of grief by those who take part
E)   participation restricted to members of the nuclear family

Question 4

In 2014, American Indians and Native Alaskans experienced:

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A)   About 10% of all deaths in the United States
B)   About 5% of all deaths in the United States
C)   About 15% of all deaths in the United States
D)   More than 25% of all deaths the United States
E)   Less than 1% of all deaths in the United States

Question 5

Research demonstrates that African-American attitudes toward death greatly value .

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A)   trust in the medical community
B)   the writing of living wills
C)   family support
D)   the work of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment
E)   None of these C

Question 6

Among Asian and Pacific Island Americans, death-related attitudes and practices .

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A)   tend to sever links with the deceased after the funeral
B)   often frown upon large-scale, public activities
C)   permit only infrequent visits to gravesites
D)   Allow for continued relationships between the deceased and survivors
E)   frequently discourage touching the body of the deceased

Question 7

The vignette in Chapter 5 describes a "happy funeral." It was happy because:

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A)   Grandmother died without pain or discomfort.
B)   Incense sticks were burned in front of the casket.
C)   There was a parade through the streets of Chinatown with a marching band.
D)   After the ceremony each mourner was given a small candy "to sweeten your sorrow."
E)   Grandfather was ready for his death and he left a good legacy.

Question 8

The story about two men visiting the gravesites of their deceased loved ones with items to memorialize their loved ones went this way. One man looked at the other and said, "I would love to see your loved one eat that rice." The other man said in reply, "My loved one will eat this rice when your loved one smells those flowers." What does this story represent:

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A)   Nonjudgmental approaches
B)   Psychopathology
C)   Cultural monotheism
D)   Ethnocentrism
E)   Two weird perspectives

Question 9

Death-related attitudes among Asian and Pacific Island Americans tend to favor communications that are likely to:

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A)   Involve open expressions of feelings and distress
B)   Involve questioning of authority
C)   Tell seriously ill persons that they are dying
D)   Involve careful control over expressions of feeling
E)   None of these

Question 10

In the Tuskegee syphilis study, .

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A)   participants were informed of the nature of their disease
B)   participants were treated with penicillin when it became available in the mid-1940s
C)   participants included African-American farmers in Alabama at different economic levels
D)   while treatments were initially suspended when results were unimpressive, study of the progress of the disease continued until participants died
E)   the study itself was halted before it was exposed by the press

Question 11

One report on death-related practices among American-Indian (or First Nation)  peoples in Canada suggested the value of trained native interpreters who could .

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A)   interpret biomedical concepts to clinical staff
B)   explain cultural perspectives on terminal illness and postmortem rituals to native peoples
C)   advocate locating death in urban, tertiary-care hospitals
D)   conduct memorial "potlach" ceremonies before a person dies
E)   serve as advocates to enable patients to return to their home communities in the final days of life

Question 12

According to recent research studies, the role of the family in African-American society is described as .

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A)   peripheral to the care provided for the terminally ill among African Americans
B)   discouraging members of the immediate family from getting involved in death- related situations
C)   usually leading to care for terminally-ill persons in hospitals or nursing homes
D)   All of these
E)   None of these

Question 13

Research on attitudes toward funerals among Asian and Pacific Island Americans indicates that funerals are _________.

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A)   generally not regarded as very important by the community
B)   likely to involve strict rituals and roles for participants
C)   usually limited to those who knew the deceased personally
D)   All of these
E)   None of these

Question 14

Causes of death among American Indians and Native Alaskans have typically most often involved:

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A)   Communicable diseases
B)   Degenerative diseases
C)   Increased average life expectancy
D)   Rejection of the view that life and death are linked in a circular fashion
E)   Low risk of sudden infant death syndrome

Question 15

Identify and discuss one lesson that is important to our course that we should learn from the account of a "happy funeral" near the beginning of Chapter 5.

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Question 16

Death-related practices among Hispanic Americans often involve .

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A)   prohibitions against touching the body
B)   efforts to be present at or near the time of death
C)   permission to speak ill of the person who has died
D)   All of these
E)   None of these

Question 17

Age-adjusted death rates for African Americans in our society are .

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A)   higher than those for Caucasian Americans
B)   about the same as those for Caucasian Americans
C)   lower than those for Caucasian Americans
D)   undocumented
E)   None of these A

Question 18

Discuss the limits on what can be said about cultural differences in the field of death, dying, and bereavement?

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Question 19

Contrast what you have learned about cultural differences regarding care of the dying and communications with the dying in any two (2) of the four groups discussed in Chapter 5.

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Identify and explain two (2) important ways in which death-related practices among African Americans are likely to be different from those of Asian and Pacific Island Americans. Explain in depth your reasons for seeing these as differences. Then suggest how these differences in practices might reflect attitudes toward death in these two communities. (This question could be varied by altering the communities that it compares.)

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