Question 1

High overall death rates and infant mortality rates among African-Americans

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A)   result directly from ethnic and racial characteristics
B)   are often associated with disadvantaged socioeconomic standing
C)   are more likely to characterize females than males
D)   have been overcome in the early 21st century
E)   are directly related to educational attainment B

Question 2

Efforts to study death rates among Hispanic Americans face particular difficulties because

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A)   data collected on death rates mainly derives from records in county offices
B)   death records record race, but not Hispanic origin
C)   noting the Hispanic origin of a person who has died depends upon accuracy by the recorder and reliable information from sources
D)   all of these
E)   none of these

Question 3

Death-related practices among Asian and Pacific Island Americans

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A)   encourage frequent visits to gravesites
B)   reject any blending of Western and non-Western elements in their funeral rituals
C)   are quite liberal in their mourning customs
D)   deny any continued interaction between the living and the deceased
E)   require the exchange of fine Samoan mats

Question 4

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 5

Infant mortality rates for Asian and Pacific Island Americans are

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A)   higher than those for Caucasian Americans
B)   higher than those for African Americans
C)   higher than those for Native Americans
D)   lower than those for Caucasian Americans, African Americans, and American Indians
E)   none of these

Question 6

Research on attitudes toward funerals among Asian and Pacific Island Americans Indicate 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 7

In their relations with the medical community, African Americans have been reported to

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A)   display distrust
B)   follow the guidance of physicians implicitly
C)   have relatively high organ donor rates
D)   prefer not to care for dying persons at home
E)   have good prenatal care leading to relatively low infant death rates

Question 8

American Indians and Native Alaskans often view life and death

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A)   in a strictly linear fashion, where life precedes death and is completely ended at death
B)   as a product of physical events
C)   without much anxiety
D)   as interwoven and related in a circular fashion
E)   as explicitly distinct and unrelated to each other

Question 9

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 10

Persons of Hispanic origin in the United States

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A)   are primarily individuals who live in or came to the mainland from Puerto Rico
B)   may be of any race
C)   exclude individuals from Central and South America
D)   are Caucasians distinguished in government documents from the larger community of "Anglo" whites
E)   none of these

Question 11

African-American attitudes toward death show that they greatly value

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A)   trust in the medical community
B)   the writing of living wills
C)   family support (as shown in recent studies) 
D)   the work of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment
E)   none of these

Question 12

In their death-related practices, African Americans are said to be

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A)   unwilling to touch the body at the funeral, but likely to visit the grave
B)   unlikely to be freely expressive in times of grief
C)   likely to regard funerals as unimportant
D)   unlikely to hold funeral directors in high regard
E)   likely to view death as a moment in which recognition can be provided for the deceased person's ability to stand up to others

Question 13

African-American practices related to death have been shown to involve

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A)   distrust of funeral directors
B)   willingness to donate organs after death
C)   the importance of storytelling
D)   resistance to expressing emotions
E)   none of these

Question 14

One study of attitudes among Asian and Pacific Island Americans toward physician-assisted suicide found that

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A)   such attitudes tended to be associated with religious factors
B)   acculturation to the dominant culture influenced such attitudes
C)   were most hostile among sub-groups with the worst health status and the shortest life expectancy among study populations
D)   all of these
E)   none of these D

Question 15

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 16

In general, death rates among African Americans are influenced by

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A)   poverty
B)   inadequate access to health care
C)   a relatively high incidence of life-threatening behavior
D)   all of these
E)   none of these

Question 17

Care of Hispanic Americans who are dying is typically provided by

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A)   female family members
B)   nursing homes
C)   a sense of "machismo"
D)   all of these
E)   none of these

Question 18

A major reason that Hispanic Americans had a comparatively low number of deaths in 2007 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 E

Question 19

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 20

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 (p, 123)

Exam 5: Cultural Patterns and Death

High overall death rates and infant mortality rates among African-Americans

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Efforts to study death rates among Hispanic Americans face particular difficulties because

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Death-related practices among Asian and Pacific Island Americans

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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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Infant mortality rates for Asian and Pacific Island Americans are

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Research on attitudes toward funerals among Asian and Pacific Island Americans Indicate that funerals are

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In their relations with the medical community, African Americans have been reported to

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American Indians and Native Alaskans often view life and death

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

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Persons of Hispanic origin in the United States

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African-American attitudes toward death show that they greatly value

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In their death-related practices, African Americans are said to be

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African-American practices related to death have been shown to involve

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One study of attitudes among Asian and Pacific Island Americans toward physician-assisted suicide found that

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

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In general, death rates among African Americans are influenced by

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Care of Hispanic Americans who are dying is typically provided by

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A major reason that Hispanic Americans had a comparatively low number of deaths in 2007 is

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

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In the Tuskegee syphilis study

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