When her older sister died, Cokie Roberts (see Personal Insights 14.4) wrote that
a. she would have preferred that her brother had died
b. she had been robbed of some part of her future
c. she would continue to be able to talk about new events with her sister
d. she was now experiencing intellectually what she had previously only grasped emotionally
e. she still had her past and had not been deprived of that
Question 2
After Sadie's husband died suddenly in his early 40s, she was very angry with God and found it difficult to accept what had happened. Sadie was very devout and had supported her church for many years. Her anger is:
a. a normal reaction
b. an unacceptable response to what has happened
c. a betrayal of her religious faith
d. a deviant psychosocial manifestation of underlying troubles
e. an example of anticipatory grief
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