Deck 11: The Business of Dying

Question 1

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

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Puritans encouraged each other to fear death.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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 8

One of the manifest functions of Life insurance is to protect one's dependents from financial disaster.

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

Whole life insurance gives one insurance coverage and serves as a form of savings.

Question 12

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

Question 13

Term life insurance tends to have higher premiums than other life insurance plans.

Question 14

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

Question 15

The public parks movement (eg.New York City's Central Park) was an important social antecedent to the "lawn-park" cemetery reform movement.False

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

Entombment usually takes place in a mausoleum.

Question 22

The body will not decompose if it is embalmed.False

Question 23

After embalming the skin retains it normal color.

Question 24

The casket represents approximately 60% of all funeral expenses.

Question 25

It was customary to hold funerals in the church in Colonial America.False

Question 26

Embalming was a common practice in colonial America.False

Question 27

Entombment is the process that follows cremation.

Question 28

In most cases immediate disposition of the body will not be embalmed.True
Multiple-Choice Questions

Question 29

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

Question 30

Embalming is required by law in most situations.

Question 31

Cremation is ALWAYS less expensive than earth burial since one will save the expense of a cemetery lot and the funeral service.False

Question 32

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

Question 33

A song or poem expressing sorrow especially for one who is dead is an:

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

Question 34

20 percent of all licensed funeral directors are women.

Question 35

A body is cremated in a columbarium.

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

Symbolisms are rarely found on U.S.gravestones.

Question 40

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

Question 41

Which of the following statements is true concerning the National Funeral Directors Association?

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 entitled The Director.
D)none of the above

Question 42

The life insurance policy which tends to have the lowest premiums for the greatest amount of coverage is:

A)term life insurance
B)whole life insurance
C)universal life insurance
D)variable life insurance
E)all the above have the same premiums for the same amount of coverage

Question 43

Which of the following statements is true concerning the practice of embalming and preparation of the body for burial?

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 upon the popularity of the practice of embalming the body after death.
C)In the 1920's it was the goal of many funeral directors to make the corpse look as though it were alive.
D)none of the above

Question 44

Which of the following statements is false?

A)In most areas of America, a basically "Puritan Way of Death" persisted until the nineteenth century.
B)The "ideology of separate spheres" contributed to more open discussion of death in American society.
C)At the turn of the twentieth 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 45

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

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

Question 46

Which of the following statements is false concerning death-related behavior of Americans during the Victorian period of history?

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 47

Advice given in the text regarding life insurance policies was:

A)buy from the first salesperson who comes to your door
B)shop around and compare the benefits of the different programs
C)buy more than you think you need so that your dependents will be wealthy after your death
D)become well informed through consumer magazines or talking to knowledgeable consumers before buying a policy
E)both b and d are correct

Question 48

Which of the following statements is false regarding cremation practices in the United States?

A)Cremation is ALWAYS less expensive than earth burial since one will save the expense of a cemetery lot and the funeral service.
B)Approximately one half of funerals in the United States will involve cremation.
C)When a body is cremated the remains look very much like ashes which can be found in a fire place.
D)all of the above

Question 49

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

Question 50

The Puritans encouraged each other to _____________ death.

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

Question 51

Which of the following statements is true regarding the itemization of funeral costs?

A)In 1984 the Federal Trade Commission mandated that all American 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 52

Which of the following statements is true regarding funeral licensing in the United States?

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

Question 53

Which of the following statements is true regarding funeral practices in the United States?

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

Question 54

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 55

According to Irion, which of the following 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 56

Which of the following was not employed by cemetery superintendents in order to eliminate the suggestions 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 57

Which of the following statements is true regarding the practice of embalming the dead body?

A)After embalming the skin retains it 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 58

Which of the following reasons accounted for the shift in the American culture to have cemeteries in the rural setting as compared to the city?

A)they were a possible health hazard
B)price of land
C)limited space
D)all of the above
E)only b and c are correct

Question 59

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

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)The Puritans felt that death was a living part of the American experience.

Question 60

The middle class in the late 19th century achieved "death with order" by

A)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)creating separate sphere ideology?men's work away from the home, women's work from men's, specialists (medical, clerical, etc.)
D)preparing funeral arrangements far in advance

Question 61

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

A)preinsure
B)prefinance
C)preneed
D)preorganize
E)prearrange