Deck 8: Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition

Question 1

The funeral business is generally viewed as a

A)business of mourning.
B)"closed business."
C)supplier of grief.
D)"mystery business."

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Roadside memorials

A)began after the great rail disaster of 1929.
B)are a 21^st century phenomenon.
C)have a long history.
D)are state mandated farewells to workers killed in the line of duty.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following fees are included in a mortuary's basic charge for professional services?

A)Consulting with family members and clergy
B)Placement of newspaper notices
C)Cemetery or crematory services
D)Flowers

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Funeral parlors acquired that name because

A)parlor is a pun as it comes from the same root word as pale or dead.
B)church officials wanted a separate place for funeral services.
C)undertakers wanted to disguise the reality of death.
D)viewing of the body used to take place in the ceremonial room of the home.

Question 5

Which of the following were normal functions of the undertaker in the late nineteenth century?
1)Laying out the body for the wake
2)Providing "aftercare" counseling for the bereaved
3)Transporting the body to the church for the funeral
4)Transporting the body to the cemetery for burial

A)1,2,and 3
B)1,2,and 4
C)1,3,and 4
D)2,3,and 4

Question 6

David Sudnow's study on death notification revealed that

A)the immediate family is often last to be notified.
B)doctors are unskilled in notifying families about the death of a loved one.
C)notification occurs randomly depending on the circumstances of the cause of death.
D)notification occurs in a consistent pattern from the immediate family to the wider community.

Question 7

Wake is best defined as a

A)memorial service after the funeral.
B)vigil at which those close to the deceased keep watch over the body.
C)ceremony held at the grave or crematorium.
D)ceremony that involves relatives and friends gathering to pray and say farewell.

Question 8

Which of the following best represents the viewpoint expressed in Jessica Mitford's book The American Way of Death?

A)Conventional funeral practices are misunderstood and complicated.
B)Conventional funerals are enlightening.
C)Conventional funerals are bizarre and morbid.
D)Conventional funerals are beautiful and inspiring.

Question 9

According to Leroy Bowman,modern funerals

A)are overlaid with such ostentation that the essential meaning and dignity of such rites has all but disappeared.
B)are lacking in serious religious symbols,which diminishes the dignity of funeral rites.
C)have remained largely unchanged throughout history,which promotes a sense of mysticism in the experience.
D)have improved in society to meet the needs of the bereaved.

Question 10

Funerals in the United States are mainly

A)structured around the wishes of the deceased.
B)enacted to preserve memories of the deceased.
C)focused on the welfare of the survivors.
D)seen as a vehicle for the dead to emigrate.

Question 11

According to Bertram Puckle,funeral rites

A)are the most important function related to death.
B)must adjust to modern social values.
C)reflect a superstitious fear of the dead.
D)should become more religious in nature.

Question 12

What were The Casket and Sunnyside?

A)Satirical plays presented by the National Funeral Directors Association at their 2012 convention
B)The undertaker's instruction guides for helping client families
C)Two nationally known funeral bereavement aftercare programs
D)Early trade publications to help facilitate communication among funeral directors

Question 13

Excluding burial vault and cemetery costs,what was the average cost of an adult funeral in the U.S.in 2016?

A)$2,200
B)$5,320
C)$7,360
D)$8,200

Question 14

What is the primary requirement of the FTC Funeral Rule?

A)Funeral service providers must give accurate,detailed information about prices and legal requirements to people who are arranging funerals.
B)Only professionals can care for the dead.
C)Funerals are required to be private functions.
D)Grave goods cannot be buried with the deceased.

Question 15

Approximately what percentage of Americans knew within the first hour of President John F.Kennedy's death?

A)20 percent
B)50 percent
C)75 percent
D)90 percent

Question 16

What has been called a "celebration of the soul's entrance into heaven"?

A)The funeral meal prepared by elders
B)The "second line" march (or jazz funeral)of New Orleans brass bands
C)The playing of Barber's Adajio for Strings at a funeral
D)Balloon release a year after death

Question 17

Jessica Mitford found modern funeral practices to be

A)interesting.
B)enlightening.
C)beautiful.
D)morbid.

Question 18

Historically,when a family's ceremonial occasions involving death were held within the home,what services did the undertaker provide?

A)Organizing after care programs for the family.
B)Supplying materials and funeral paraphernalia.
C)Digging the grave.
D)Laying out the body in the parlor for the wake.

Question 19

The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA)distinguishes how many categories of costs related to the conventional American funeral?

A)two
B)four
C)six
D)eight

Question 20

Funerals are akin to other major transitions in a person's life in that they all involve

A)rites of passage.
B)numbers of people.
C)family and professionals.
D)money.

Question 21

What is a "green" technique that can substitute for the conventional cremation process?

A)Resomation
B)Crypting
C)Ecolization
D)Larching

Question 22

Which of the following is generally considered an experimental technology?

A)Harvesting of organs
B)Cryonics
C)Burial at sea
D)Donation to science

Question 23

The FTC Funeral Rule requires that mortuaries

A)obtain express permission from the family in order to charge a fee for the embalming procedure.
B)embalm the deceased if the funeral is more than three days after death.
C)disclose all embalming fees to a federal regulatory agency.
D)use an approved list of chemicals for embalming.

Question 24

At the lower end of the price range,caskets are typically

A)gasketed steel.
B)cherry wood.
C)plastic.
D)cloth-covered plywood or pressboard.

Question 25

Funeral and memorial societies are organizations which were formed to

A)provide economic and simple after-death arrangements to members.
B)provide support group networking.
C)unite against the funeral industry to regulate pricing.
D)memorialize important figures in history.

Question 26

Which of the following prefer cremation to ground burial?

A)Judaism
B)Christianity
C)Islam
D)Buddhist

Question 27

Green burials whether on land or in the ocean,appeal to those who live by the

A)renew,regrowth refine lifestyle.
B)reduce,reuse,recycle lifestyle.
C)wood,wind,water lifestyle.
D)land or sea lifestyle.

Question 28

Which of the following is considered a new direction in funerals and body disposition?

A)Cremation and scattering ashes at sea
B)Placing one's ashes in a columbarium niche or urn
C)Having a space burial on a rocket
D)Entombment in a subterranean vault

Question 29

In which of the following countries is cremation the most common method of body disposal?

A)Norway and Sweden
B)Russia and China
C)Canada and United States
D)India and Japan

Question 30

Funerals have been compared to a

A)shopping mall display.
B)graduate student defending their research.
C)traveling museum exhibit.
D)theatrical presentation.

Question 31

The most popular choice of casket in the United States is made of

A)walnut.
B)plastic.
C)gasketed steel.
D)cherry wood.

Question 32

President Lincoln's funeral procession increased awareness of the practice of

A)embalming.
B)flying flags at half-mast.
C)reparation.
D)cremation.

Question 33

It has been said that no land in the United States is more sacred than the square mile of

A)Arlington National Cemetery.
B)Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.
C)Washington Monument.
D)Cherokee Burial Mound.

Question 34

The "ashes" left from the cremation process are

A)one-half of the body weight.
B)like coarse coral sand.
C)different shades according to the person's ethnicity.
D)weightless.

Question 35

Which of the following statements about embalming is true?

A)Embalming in the United States was adopted around the time of World War I.
B)A body destined for cremation cannot be embalmed.
C)A body destined for burial may or may not be embalmed.
D)Embalming methods among various cultures all have the same results relative to preservation of the corpse.

Question 36

Which of the following types of body disposition will delay decomposition the most?

A)Open air disposal
B)Corpse buried in a casket
C)Corpse buried without a casket
D)Body whose flesh has been washed from the bones prior to burial

Question 37

After cremation,the "ashes" are

A)in pieces like wood or paper pulp.
B)in a sharp and spiky state.
C)as fine as baby powder.
D)in a granular state like coarse coral sand.

Question 38

When was embalming adopted in the United States?

A)Around the time of the Revolutionary War
B)Around the time of the Civil War
C)Just prior to WWI
D)It is still not officially adopted in the United States since it is not required by federal law

Question 39

Which of the following is MOST likely to view cremation as a symbol of the transitory nature of human life?

A)Christian
B)Hindu
C)Taoist
D)Muslim

Question 40

Personalized funerals are also called

A)"ego" funerals.
B)"aqua" funerals.
C)"green" funerals.
D)"life-centered" funerals.

Question 41

William Lamers believed that substituting a memorial service for a traditional funeral is lacking in which of the following respects?

A)formality,and therefore the memorial service tends to be chaotic
B)cohesiveness as the clergy and family tend to disagree about the content of service
C)the body is not present,so the fact of death is not fixed in the minds of the mourners
D)it again brings up feelings that may have been 'put to rest'

Question 42

An intake fee is the charge for transporting the corpse from the place of death to the mortuary.

Question 43

Cameras are illegal in the United States mortuary or chapel.

Question 44

Charges for the use of a hearse are usually included under the heading miscellaneous charges.

Question 45

Death notification also helps set apart the mourning period from the funeral service.

Question 46

Most people appear satisfied with the quality of service provided by their local mortuaries.

Question 47

The term "burial" simply involves digging a grave.

Question 48

Burial vaults or grave liners are required by state law in all American cemeteries.

Question 49

Cryonics or cryogenic suspension is a method of

A)freezing.
B)mummifying.
C)immediate body disposal.
D)embalming.

Question 50

If funds are not available from private sources to pay for burial the local Red Cross or Salvation Army picks ups the costs.

Question 51

The Parsi community in India disposes of the dead by allowing corpses to be consumed by birds of prey.

Question 52

Funerals have attracted criticism only recently,due to online product suppliers.

Question 53

Embalming is a uniform practice required by FTC law across the United States today.

Question 54

"Spontaneous shrines" may be seen on walls,roadsides,and via the internet.

Question 55

Walmart cells caskets and urns on its website.

Question 56

The National Funeral Directors Association three distinguishes categories of costs to a conventional funeral.

Question 57

What is the Hawaiian "feast of tears"?

A)the first family meal following burial
B)the final family meal before burial
C)a joyful reunion of the bereaved
D)a marriage celebration of the deceased's grandchildren

Question 58

Emotional and social support is directed primarily toward the bereaved family.

Question 59

Burying "grave goods" with the dead promotes the expression of grief.

Question 60

Cremated remains must be placed in an urn if kept by the family.

Question 61

The Hawaiian "feast of tears" is the meal shared by mourners the evening of the death symbolizing the salt of the Pacific and the bitter tears of sadness.