QUIZ

Here is a short quiz on basic euthanasia and physician assisted suicide facts. All answers can be found at medical websites, informational websites/books, legal articles, and also in past posts on this blog.

1. Which state has a (form) of legalized euthanasia?
a. New York
b. Oregon
c. Colorado
d. Rhode Island

2. What kind of consent can euthanasia be issued?
a. Voluntary euthanasia (with consent)
b. Involuntary euthanasia (without consent)
c. No such thing
d. a and b

3. How can euthanasia be conducted?
a. Passively
b. Non-actively
c. Actively
d. a, b, and c

4. What does non-active euthanasia mean?
a. Doctor refuses to treat patient
b. Not a way to be conducted
c. Doctor withdraws life-support
d. Patient runs away from hospital

5. What is the loose tranlastion of euthanasia?
a. "well-death"
b. "young-death"
c. "pain-be-gone"
d. "patient-killing"

6. Is euthanasia and physician assisted suicide exactly the same?
a. Yes; the doctor acts directly in both
b. No; the patient administers the medication in physician assisted suicide
c. They are exactly the same
d. Depends on the doctor

7. On cases such as euthanasia and abortion, Obama is more "pro-choice" and McCain is more "pro-life"
a. False
b. True

8. Oregon has issued a "Death with _______ Act"
a. Compassion
b. Medicine
c. Dignity
d. Oregon has issued no act concerning euthanasia/physician assisted suicide

9. What is "the practice of sedating a terminally ill competent patient to the point of unconsciousness, then allowing the patient to die of her disease, starvation, or dehydration"?
a. Doctor sedation
b. Life-sustaining method
c. Termanation
d. Terminal sedation

10. When was euthanasia first mentioned (whether 'for' or 'against')?
a. The U.S. Constitution
b. Egyption scriptures
c. The Hippocratic Oath
d. English Common Law