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1.0. Kastenbaum observed that Hollywood portrayals of death emphasize all the following EXCEPT
the notion:
Answer: b. of open communication, as in interpersonal connecting with significant words of parting.
2.0. A new question has arisen about gory details on television programs such as CSI and whether
their portrayal of death serves to
______ death.
Answer: c. depersonalize
3.0. The ______ is a person who is quick to introduce a fatalistic statement often as an attempt to end
a discussion about death before
it begins.
Answer: c. silencer
4.0. The leading cause of death for the population in general is:
Answer: c. heart disease.
5.0. The earliest childhood memory reported by most adults is an experience of:
Answer: b. death.
6.0. Of the 100 individuals Jack Kevorkian "assisted" in death, how many were terminally ill?
Answer: d. less than one third
7.0. One study that followed patients through their postoperative period found that:
Answer: c. those with positive religious coping styles experienced less pain and distress.
8.0. Personal experience with dying and death influences our:
Answer: d. attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.
9.0. Which of the following is NOT true of living wills?
Answer: b. Most people in the United States have initiated a living will.
10.0. Studies have found that the people who sign organ donor cards are:
Answer: d. all of the above
11.0. A study found that those who crossed the street in a high risk-taking manner were:
Answer: a. more likely to have contemplated or attempted suicide in the past.
12.0. Upon viewing his friend Ivan Ilych's corpse, Peter Ivanovich:
Answer: c. tried to differentiate and distance himself from Ilych.
13.0. Which of the following is NOT one of the criticisms Kastenbaum highlighted regarding research
using death anxiety scales?
Answer: a. Studies often involve resurveying participants many times.
14.0. Most self-report studies find that the general population has a ______ level of death anxiety.
Answer: b. low to moderate
15.0. Most self-report studies find that:
Answer: a. women have higher death anxiety scores than men.
16.0. Studies regarding age and death anxiety show that death anxiety:
Answer: b. shows either no age differences or decreases somewhat in the later adult years.
17.0. In a longitudinal study conducted in the United States that examined the relationship between
religiousness and fear of death and
dying, researchers found:
Answer: a. strong religious beliefs did not provide an effective buffer against fear of death
18.0. The apprehensiveness and restlessness we carry around with us in everyday life is sometimes
called:
Answer: b. trait anxiety
6.0. Cryonic suspension is another word used for cremation.
Answer: b. false
7.0. Homicide rates have been consistently the highest in Southern states.
Answer: a. true
8.0. Researchers have found that individuals who choose NOT to be organ donors often have a fear
of being declared dead
prematurely.
Answer: a. true
9.0. Mortality salience can only be a factor in a research study for participants who have been
exposed directly to death, such as
soldiers and paramedics.
Answer: a. false
10.0. Nearly 200 human bodies have been placed in cryonic suspension worldwide.
Answer: b. false
11.0. A survey of studies conducted in 15 nations showed that women tend to have higher death
anxiety scores on self-report scales.
Answer: a. true
12.0. Death anxiety tends to be relatively high in adolescence and early adulthood.
Answer: a. true
13.0. A study by Russac et al. (2007) found that women experienced a secondary peak in death
anxiety as they entered their fifties.
Answer: a. true
14.0. It is unusual for people to experience an upsurge of death anxiety when they realize how close
they have come to being killed in
a motor vehicle accident.
Answer: b. false
15.0. In Freud's view, thanatophobia is the result of castration anxiety.
Answer: a. true
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16.0. Becker, an advocate of the existential position, argues that death anxiety is the root of
schizophrenia.
Answer: a. true
17.0. A criticism of Freud’s and Becker’s positions about death anxiety is that basic assumptions of
both of these perspectives appear
to be beyond empirical investigation.
Answer: a. true
18.0. Denial, in the psychiatric sense, is a primitive defense mechanism that is ineffective in the long
term.
Answer: a. true
19.0. Both compartmentalizing and denial involve a disconnection of one aspect of a death-related
situation from another.
Answer: a. true
20.0. Acceptance and denial can be evaluated only when we are in a position to understand the
context a given person is in, what is
trying to be accomplished, and what is being faced.
Answer: a. true
Chapter Two: What Is Death?
Multiple Choice
1.0. The novel Frankenstein was strongly influenced by all the following EXCEPT the:
Answer: d. aged author's own preparation for death.
2.0. Darwin's shipboard experiments demonstrated thanatomimesis, which occurs when a:
Answer: b. live animal deliberately appears to be dead in order to avoid being killed.
3.0. The position that death is not a sudden, massive event, but rather a complex process that takes
place over time is promoted by:
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9.0 According a report issued by the President’s Council on Bioethics (2008), the term “total brain
failure” excludes “death” because
this condition should be verified rather than just being assumed.
Answer: a. true
10.0 According to Kastenbaum, virtual reality has decreased the significance of the actual body of the
deceased having to be a part of
funeral rites and memorialization.
Answer: a. true
11.0. In Homer's epic, The Odyssey, the sailors are visited by a hybrid bird-person with heads that
resemble women, who lures them to
their death.
Answer: a. true
12.0. Utilizing the skeleton as a symbol of death developed in medieval Europe.
Answer: a. false
13.0. In a 1971 study of the ways we personify death, masculine personifications were given much
more frequently than feminine.
Answer: a. true
14.0. In the 1971 study of death personifications, most respondents viewed death as grim and
terrifying.
Answer: a. false
15.0. In a 1997 follow-up study of death personifications, women continued to favor the image of
death as the “gentle comforter”
while men described death as a “cold and remote” person.
Answer: a. true
16.0. Feeling dead to ones’ self due to drug and alcohol use, or simply from aging, represents a part
of phenomenological death.
Answer: a. true
17.0. Biomedical developments and portrayal of vampires and zombies as the Undead continue to
foster ambiguity about the
borderline between “alive” and “dead.”
Answer: a. true
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18.0. Unlike zombies, revenants and vampires have been associated largely with the voodoo religion
and Creole culture as practiced in
Haiti, West Africa, and areas of the U.S. South.
Answer: a. false
19.0. Fatal accidents are one example of a random, meaningless death event.
Answer: a. true
Chapter Three: The Death System
Multiple Choice
1.0. It has been suggested that ethical guidelines for studying remains include all of the following
except that:
Answer: b. researchers should maintain legal rights to the remains they discover following
consultation with relevant people and
organizations.
2.0. Over 40 years ago, newborn infants, most from Memphis, were injected with radioactive iodide:
Answer: b. as part of government-funded research study on cancer.
3.0. Which of the following is NOT related to the reduction of vultures in India?
Answer: a. reduced death anxiety because there is no longer this reminder of mortality
4.0. People who participated in the "world without death" research would agree with all of the following
EXCEPT that:
Answer: c. society would become very liberal and quick to change.
5.0. Which of the following is NOT true of the Days of the Dead observances in Mexican culture?
Answer: b. The mood in public is somber and restrained.
6.0. December 29th is one of the "times" in the United States' death system because it is remembered
as the day:
Answer: b. the Sioux were massacred by cavalry
Answer: b. He wanted to give the citizens who adored him a chance to participate in his tomb project.
14.0. The funeral and memorialization process that took place for Prince Albert had the function of:
Answer: b. symbolically incorporating Prince Albert into the British Empire.
15.0. Which of the following is NOT true of how the newly formed Soviet Union treated the corpse of
Lenin, upon coming into
power??
Answer: d. His body was stuffed with herbs and aromatic spices to cover the bad odor.
16.0. The women of Potamia, a village in northern Greece, still continue the mourning tradition of:
Answer: d. graveside laments and taking care of the grave site.
17.0. The main purpose of the two funerals, the Green Funeral and the Dry Funeral, carried out by the
Kotas of Southern India, is to:
Answer: c. cleanse the survivors from the contamination of death.
18.0. For Orthodox Jews who are mourning the death of a family member, Aninut refers to a:
Answer: b. period of time in which they are released from social and religious obligations in order to
focus on the loss of the deceased.
19.0. The history of the New Haven Burying Ground is typical of many other colonial cemeteries in
that:
Answer: d. the cemetery was repeatedly neglected and fell into ruin.
20.0. The first national cemetery in the United States was dedicated by which president?
Answer: b. Lincoln.
21.0. Which of the following is the first memorial park created in the U.S.?
Answer: c. Mount Auburn Cemetery
22.0. The U.S. cemeteries that include “ethnic sections” within their broader cemetery grounds
include:
a. Common Burying Ground in Newport, Rhode Island
b. Wounded Knee in South Dakota
c. San Fernando Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas
Answer: d. a. and c. only
23.0. Despite mixed feelings that some Americans have about the Vietnam War, the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial has had a powerful
impact because it:
Answer: d. serves as a means of integrating the war and its losses into American culture.
24.0. The Vermillion Accord is part of an international effort undertaken by Native Americans and
other indigenous peoples to:
a. provide universal respect to the mortal remains of the dead.
b. ensure for the proper disposition of one’s ancestors while allowing for the scientific studying of
remains whenever the value of
doing so can be demonstrated.
c. ensure that pets are treated with the same respects as humans.
d. all of the above
Answer: e. a. and b. only
25.0. A funeral director must demonstrate proficiency in:
a. accounting.
b. chemistry.
c. restorative art.
Answer: d. all of the above.
26.0. The national average for the typical traditional funeral in the U.S. is likely to cost between:
Answer: b. $6,000-$8,000.
27.0. The Funeral and Memorial Societies of America:
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Answer: c. advocates for the arrangement of simple and inexpensive funeral services.
28.0. Which of the following is NOT true of green funerals?
Answer: b. This type of funeral has become quite popular in the United States.
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