Question 1

American Indians and Native Alaskans _________.

Accepted Answer

A) are best described as a single cohesive group, sharing similar beliefs and behaviors 
B) are more likely to live on a reservation than in urban areas in the United States 
C) have most frequently died from communicable diseases 
D) have low mortality rates from automobile accidents 
E) None of these 
A) are best described as a single cohesive group, sharing similar beliefs and behaviors 
B) are more likely to live on a reservation than in urban areas in the United States 
C) have most frequently died from communicable diseases 
D) have low mortality rates from automobile accidents 
E) None of these

Question 2

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.)

Accepted Answer

One important way in which death-related

Question 3

Death-related practices among Asian and Pacific Island Americans _________.

Accepted Answer

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 
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

The "Tiger Woods description" in the 2000 census refers to:

Accepted Answer

A) New types of encounters with death 
B) The possibility that individuals might classify themselves in more than one racial or cultural category 
C) The fact that Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States 
D) All of these 
E) None of these 
A) New types of encounters with death 
B) The possibility that individuals might classify themselves in more than one racial or cultural category 
C) The fact that Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States 
D) All of these 
E) None of these

Question 5

American-Indian and Native Alaskan groups experience high vehicular death rates from:

Accepted Answer

A) Alcoholism 
B) Living in sparsely populated areas 
C) Living in areas where roads are often in poor condition 
D) All of these 
E) None of these 
A) Alcoholism 
B) Living in sparsely populated areas 
C) Living in areas where roads are often in poor condition 
D) All of these 
E) None of these

Question 6

Among Hispanic Americans deaths in the United States in 2014, _________.

Accepted Answer

A) infant mortality rates were much lower than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian infants 
B) an excessive number resulted from chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and suicide 
C) death rates were much higher than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian Americans 
D) death rates were much lower than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian Americans 
E) heart disease and cancer are unusually prominent causes of death 
A) infant mortality rates were much lower than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian infants 
B) an excessive number resulted from chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and suicide 
C) death rates were much higher than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian Americans 
D) death rates were much lower than those for non-Hispanic Caucasian Americans 
E) heart disease and cancer are unusually prominent causes of death

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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 
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

Question 8

Care of Hispanic Americans who are dying is typically provided by _________.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

The limits on what can be said about cul

Question 10

Identify and briefly explain any two (2)differences between encounters with death in any two (2)of the four groups discussed in Chapter 5.

Accepted Answer

One difference between encounters with d

American Indians and Native Alaskans _________.

Death-related practices among Asian and Pacific Island Americans _________.

The "Tiger Woods description" in the 2000 census refers to:

American-Indian and Native Alaskan groups experience high vehicular death rates from:

Among Hispanic Americans deaths in the United States in 2014, _________.

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

Care of Hispanic Americans who are dying is typically provided by _________.

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

Identify and briefly explain any two (2)differences between encounters with death in any two (2)of the four groups discussed in Chapter 5.

Education About Death, Dying, and Bereavement

Changing Encounters With Death

Changing Attitudes Toward Death

Death-Related Practices and the American Death System

Coping With Dying

Coping With Dying: How Individuals Can Help

Coping With Dying: How Communities Can Help

Coping With Loss and Grief

Coping With Loss and Grief: How Individuals Can Help

Coping With Loss and Grief: Funeral Practices and Other Ways Communities Can Help

Children

Adolescents

Young and Middle-Aged Adults

Older Adults

Legal Issues

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Aided Death: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Aid in Dying

The Meaning and Place of Death in Life

Illustrating the Themes of This Book: Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders

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Exam 5: Cultural Patterns and Death

American Indians and Native Alaskans _________.

Death-related practices among Asian and Pacific Island Americans _________.

The "Tiger Woods description" in the 2000 census refers to:

American-Indian and Native Alaskan groups experience high vehicular death rates from:

Among Hispanic Americans deaths in the United States in 2014, _________.

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

Care of Hispanic Americans who are dying is typically provided by _________.

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

Identify and briefly explain any two (2)differences between encounters with death in any two (2)of the four groups discussed in Chapter 5.

Education About Death, Dying, and Bereavement

Changing Encounters With Death

Changing Attitudes Toward Death

Death-Related Practices and the American Death System

Coping With Dying

Coping With Dying: How Individuals Can Help

Coping With Dying: How Communities Can Help

Coping With Loss and Grief

Coping With Loss and Grief: How Individuals Can Help

Coping With Loss and Grief: Funeral Practices and Other Ways Communities Can Help

Children

Adolescents

Young and Middle-Aged Adults

Older Adults

Legal Issues

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Aided Death: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Aid in Dying

The Meaning and Place of Death in Life

Illustrating the Themes of This Book: Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders

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