African-American practices related to death have been shown to involve
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 2In their death-related practices, African Americans are said to be
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 deceasedperson's ability to stand up to others
Question 3In the Tuskegee syphilis study
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)
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