Deck 11: The Business of Dying

Question 1

The public parks movement (e.g. ,New York City's Central Park)was an important social antecedent (came before)to the "lawn park" cemetery reform movement.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The "ideology of separate spheres" contributed to more open discussion of death in American society.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

An epitaph is a spoken remembrance delivered at a funeral to honor the deceased.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Middle-class Americans wished to experience death "with order."

Question 5

The rural cemetery movement created a memento mori that encouraged people to "remember death."

Question 6

Compared with the funeral service at the beginning of the 20th century,Puritan funeral services were more elaborate and sentimental.

Question 7

In the 19th century the funeral visitation was typically held in the home of the bereaved family.

Question 8

Symbolisms are rarely found on U.S.gravestones.

Question 9

Like modern thanatologists,Puritans felt an awareness of death could improve the quality of life.

Question 10

The rural cemetery movement led to the banning of lot enclosures and grave mounds.

Question 11

As a result of the World War I practice of embalming the bodies of soldiers before shipping them home from European battlefields,embalming came into widespread use in the United States after 1920.

Question 12

At the turn of the 20th century,the funeral industry attempted to keep death out of sight and out of mind.

Question 13

Puritans encouraged each other to fear death.

Question 14

In the 1920s it was the goal of many funeral directors to make the corpse look as though it were alive.

Question 15

Embalming is required by law in most situations.

Question 16

The emergence of the popularity of life insurance encouraged the development of elaborate funeral services.

Question 17

During the Victorian era in American society,grievers were encouraged to express their emotions in response to the death of a loved one.

Question 18

It was customary for Puritans to embalm a body before burial.

Question 19

The role of the funeral director in the 1920s was similar to that of a "stage manager."

Question 20

In the original use of the term,a casket was a place where valuables were kept.

Question 21

Cremation is always less expensive than earth burial because one saves the expense of a cemetery lot and the funeral service.

Question 22

The casket represents approximately 60 percent of all funeral expenses.

Question 23

Approximately one-half of funerals in the United States involve cremation.

Question 24

It was customary to hold funerals in the church in colonial America.

Question 25

Embalming was a common practice in colonial America.

Question 26

A body is cremated in a columbarium.

Question 27

After embalming,the skin retains its normal color.

Question 28

State laws required that a vault be used for earth burials.

Question 29

In most cases of immediate disposition,the body will not be embalmed.

Question 30

There are approximately 2 million deaths each year in the United States.

Question 31

How did the middle class in the late 19th century achieve "death with order"?

A)By making sure that the death of loved ones occurred in full view of the family.
B)The middle class felt that they could not achieve "death with order"
C)By creating separate sphere ideology: men's work away from the home,women's work from men's,specialists (medical,clerical,etc. ).
D)By preparing funeral arrangements far in advance.

Question 32

There are approximately 10,000 funeral homes in the United States.

Question 33

Approximately one?fourth of the money paid to the funeral director,in a typical funeral,is money that is disbursed to others (minister,flowers,etc. )

Question 34

A song or poem expressing sorrow especially for one who is dead is a(n)__________.

A)elegy
B)obituary
C)epitaph
D)ballad
E)eulogy

Question 35

The cemetery that stimulated the spread of other cemeteries all over the country was __________.

A)Forest Lawn Cemetery
B)Mount Auburn Cemetery
C)Sunny Hill Cemetery
D)Park Cemetery

Question 36

Twenty percent of all licensed funeral directors are women.

Question 37

Entombment is the process that follows cremation.

Question 38

A body must be embalmed if the person died of cancer.

Question 39

Entombment usually takes place in a mausoleum.

Question 40

The body will not decompose if it is embalmed.

Question 41

__________________ is a generic term that refers to both processes of prearranging and prefunding.

A)Preinsure
B)Prefinance
C)Preneed
D)Preorganize
E)Prearrange

Question 42

Which of the following statements is False?

A)In most areas of America,a basically "Puritan Way of Death" persisted until the 19th century.
B)The "ideology of separate spheres" contributed to more open discussion of death in American society.
C)At the turn of the 20th century,the funeral industry attempted to keep death out of sight and out of mind.
D)Middle-class Americans wished to experience death with order.

Question 43

According to Irion,which is the most important need of the bereaved?

A)Need for reality
B)Need to be left alone
C)Need for profession counseling
D)Need for resolving guilt

Question 44

Which of these statements concerning the National Funeral Directors Association is True?

A)The association was founded in Milwaukee,Wisconsin.
B)The first official journal produced by the association was funded by the Stein Casket Manufacturing Company.
C)The first official journal produced by the association was titled The Director.
D)None of the above.

Question 45

Which of these statements regarding funeral licensing in the United States is True?

A)All states license embalmers.
B)All states license funeral directors.
C)All states license funeral homes.
D)Twenty percent of all licensed funeral directors are women.

Question 46

Which of these statements regarding funeral practices in the United States is True?

A)Embalming is required by law in most situations.
B)The casket represents approximately 60 percent of all funeral expenses.
C)Approximately one?fourth of the money paid to the funeral director,in a typical funeral,is disbursed to others (minister,flowers,etc. ).
D)None of the above.

Question 47

Which of these statements regarding cremation practices in the United States is False?

A)Cremation is always less expensive than earth burial because one saves the expense of a cemetery lot and the funeral service.
B)Approximately one-half of funerals in the United States involve cremation.
C)When a body is cremated,the remains look very much like ashes that can be found in a fireplace.
D)All of the above.

Question 48

Which of these statements regarding the itemization of funeral costs is True?

A)In 1984 the Federal Trade Commission mandated that all U.S.funeral homes itemize their fees.
B)With itemization of funeral costs,it is possible to make accurate comparisons of price and quality over the phone.
C)The FTC rule regarding itemization of funeral expenses uniformly resulted in decreasing funeral expenses to families in the United States.
D)All of the above.

Question 49

Which of these statements concerning the practice of embalming and preparation of the body for burial is True?

A)Embalming became popular as a result of the World War I practice of embalming the bodies of soldiers before shipping them home from European battlefields.
B)The germ theory of disease had little impact on the popularity of the practice of embalming the body after death.
C)In the 1920s it was the goal of many funeral directors to make the corpse look as though it were alive.
D)None of the above.

Question 50

Which of the following was not employed by cemetery superintendents to eliminate the suggestion of death in the cemetery.

A)Banning lot enclosures
B)Encouraging above-ground monuments
C)Banning grave mounds
D)Encouraging shorter inscriptions on monuments

Question 51

The Puritans encouraged each other to _____________ death.

A)look forward to
B)think about
C)be anxious about
D)fear

Question 52

Which of the following statements concerning death-related behavior of the Puritans is False?

A)Puritans felt an awareness of death could improve the quality of life.
B)Puritans encouraged each other to fear death.
C)It was customary for Puritans to embalm the body before the burial.
D)Puritans felt that death was a living part of the American experience.

Question 53

Which of these statements regarding immediate disposition of the body and memorial services in the United States is False?

A)In most cases there is an immediate disposition of the body and embalming is not involved.
B)The body will not be present at a memorial service.
C)Memorial services are not religious in nature.
D)None of the above.

Question 54

Which of these statements concerning death-related behavior of Americans during the Victorian era is False?

A)Grievers were encouraged to express their emotions in response to the death of a loved one.
B)A more elaborate funeral ritual involving "therapeutic self-indulgence" was encouraged.
C)Mourning clothes were worn as one method for extending the period of lamentation.
D)None of the above.

Question 55

Which of these statements regarding the practice of embalming the dead body is True?

A)After embalming the skin retains its normal color.
B)A body must be embalmed if the person died of cancer.
C)A body must be embalmed if it is shipped by plane to another state.
D)The body will not decompose if it is embalmed.

Question 56

Which of the following is the most popular means of disposition in the United States?

A)Entombment
B)Cremation
C)Earth burial
D)Burial at sea