The Last Dance: Encountering Death
and Dying – 11th Edition
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TEST BANK
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Lynne Ann DeSpelder
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Albert Lee Strickland
Jeanette M. Potts
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Marion Mason
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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors and
ED
Students
© Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland, Jeanette M. Potts & Marion Mason
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All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying – 11th
Edition
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Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland, Jeanette M. Potts & Marion
Mason
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1. Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change
2. Learning About Death: Socialization
3. Perspectives on Death: Historical and Cultural
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4. Death Systems: Mortality and Society
5. Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions
6. End-of-Life Issues and Decisions
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7. Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness
8. Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition
9. Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss
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10.Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents
11.Death in the Lives of Adults
12.Suicide
13.Risks, Perils, and Traumatic Death
PR
14.Beyond Death / After Life
15.The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices
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Created by MedConnoisseur ©2025/2026
, Test Bank for The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying, 11th Edition by Lynn
Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland
Chapter 01 11e Answers Included ✅
1) Thanatos, from Greek mythology, is generally understood as a response to the
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A) invention of life and death.
B) reincarnation of deities.
C) personification of death.
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D) God of the afterlife.
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2) Deaths of the famous are likely to be announced on the newspaper's front page as well as
via feature-length
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A) death notices.
B) narcocorridos.
C) elegies.
D) obituaries.
AP
3) A feature length story on the death of someone famous is a/an
PR
A) mediamac.
B) obituary.
C) lossography.
D) journalist's life review.
OV
4) Brief standardized printed statements following the death of an average citizen are called
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, A) obituaries.
B) death notices.
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C) thanatographs.
D) death dirges.
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5) Media experts say that the "reality violence" on TV news began with coverage of the
A) Kennedy assassination.
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B) explosion of the space shuttle.
C) Vietnam War.
D) Los Angeles riots.
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6) Depictions of death in the mass media, in which the symbolic use of death contributes to
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an "irrational dread of dying and thus to a diminished vitality and self-direction in life" is
referred to as
A) mean world syndrome.
PR
B) media overload.
C) communication depression syndrome.
D) secondary trauma.
OV
7) In Gerbner's "mean world syndrome", the symbolic use of death contributes to
1. an irrational dread of dying.
2. diminished vitality.
ED
3. diminished self-direction in life.
4. an increased hoarding of weapons.
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and Dying – 11th Edition
ST
UV
TEST BANK
IA
?_
Lynne Ann DeSpelder
AP
Albert Lee Strickland
Jeanette M. Potts
PR
Marion Mason
OV
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors and
ED
Students
© Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland, Jeanette M. Potts & Marion Mason
?
All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
Created by MedConnoisseur ©2025/2026
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying – 11th
Edition
ST
Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland, Jeanette M. Potts & Marion
Mason
UV
1. Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change
2. Learning About Death: Socialization
3. Perspectives on Death: Historical and Cultural
IA
4. Death Systems: Mortality and Society
5. Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions
6. End-of-Life Issues and Decisions
?_
7. Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness
8. Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition
9. Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss
AP
10.Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents
11.Death in the Lives of Adults
12.Suicide
13.Risks, Perils, and Traumatic Death
PR
14.Beyond Death / After Life
15.The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices
OV
ED
?
Created by MedConnoisseur ©2025/2026
, Test Bank for The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying, 11th Edition by Lynn
Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland
Chapter 01 11e Answers Included ✅
1) Thanatos, from Greek mythology, is generally understood as a response to the
ST
A) invention of life and death.
B) reincarnation of deities.
C) personification of death.
UV
D) God of the afterlife.
IA
2) Deaths of the famous are likely to be announced on the newspaper's front page as well as
via feature-length
?_
A) death notices.
B) narcocorridos.
C) elegies.
D) obituaries.
AP
3) A feature length story on the death of someone famous is a/an
PR
A) mediamac.
B) obituary.
C) lossography.
D) journalist's life review.
OV
4) Brief standardized printed statements following the death of an average citizen are called
ED
?
1
, A) obituaries.
B) death notices.
ST
C) thanatographs.
D) death dirges.
UV
5) Media experts say that the "reality violence" on TV news began with coverage of the
A) Kennedy assassination.
IA
B) explosion of the space shuttle.
C) Vietnam War.
D) Los Angeles riots.
?_
6) Depictions of death in the mass media, in which the symbolic use of death contributes to
AP
an "irrational dread of dying and thus to a diminished vitality and self-direction in life" is
referred to as
A) mean world syndrome.
PR
B) media overload.
C) communication depression syndrome.
D) secondary trauma.
OV
7) In Gerbner's "mean world syndrome", the symbolic use of death contributes to
1. an irrational dread of dying.
2. diminished vitality.
ED
3. diminished self-direction in life.
4. an increased hoarding of weapons.
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