Funeral Ops Study 2

Your client family tells you at their home that they want the best metal casket that you sell. You immediately tell them that the ultimate casket in your inventory is a _______________.

48 ounce bronze

What term best describes how beautiful or 'nice' something appears?

Aesthetics

An overlay is a synonymous term for the-

Apron

What is considered to be the ultimate bronze casket?

Cast bronze

Which of these bronze casket types was made by molten bronze, poured into a mold?

Cast bronze.

"Anthropomorphic" would be a term that best describes a:

Coffin

What is the term that describes the wood that is derived from a leaf-bearing tree?

Deciduous

"Bail handle" hardware-

Doesn't move or is stationary

What casket shell design resembles an old-timey claw-footed bathtub in its shape?

Elliptic-ended

Which of these types more closely resembles cardboard in its composition?

Fiberboard.

Some caskets have two "tubes" located at the end of the casket. On which end would you find them?

Foot end

"Permanent handle" or "continuous bar" hardware is a variation of ______ hardware.

Full-length stationary

Most gasketed caskets sold today are of this type:

Glassless

Lignin is primarily seen to-

Helps hold the material (wood cells) together like glue

The regular half couch casket features ogees that-

Hinged and fold down for viewing

This casket opening style allows for a single or double style:

Hinged cap

Bail handle hardware is a variation of-

Individual stationary

What common element or material is shared among all ferrous caskets?

Iron

A coffin ______ the same article as a casket.

Is not

Client families that purchase wood caskets usually do so because of:

Its warmth, beauty, and craftsmanship

What do "stiffeners" actually do?

Make the bottom more structurally sound

Which of these is not a softwood?

Maple

If you see a threaded fastener on the caps of a casket, it is a fair assumption that this casket is-

Non-gasketed

In the regular half couch casket, what part of the casket is hinged so that it may fold down for viewing?

Ogees

A casket truck has brought your funeral home two caskets, a pecan casket and pine casket,weighing a total of 500 lbs. The first casket you remove from the truck weighs 200 lbs, so you deduct that the casket that is still on the truck is the _____ casket.

Pecan

This opening style allows for "half" or "full" types:

Perfection couch

The 'priest' or 'clergy' casket is a variation of what opening style?

Perfection full couch

The "fishtail" is also known as the-

Pie

The term "wrought" means-

Rolled into sheets

Which of these are you NOT likely to find in a gasketed format?

Single hinged cap

Which of these locking types uses one piece of glass covering the uppermost part of a casket shell for positive closure?

Single wall glass

While looking at a hardwood casket at a visitation, you notice that the lines of the grain pattern are not close together. You correctly deduct that the not-so-close grain pattern makes this casket wood a/an _____.

Softwood

What casket shell type is probably the easiest to create or produce?

Square cornered

Which of these hardware types serves as a bridge between the bar and the lug?

The arm

Why can't you hermetically seal a hardwood casket?

The casket is combustible and may catch on fire

A "fishtail" would be found on what part of a casket?

The ends of the casket, just above the ogee

The main difference between a casket bed and a casket mattress is that-

The mattress is removeable as one piece- the bed is not

What is the position of the ogee (on the head end)in the open hinged cap casket?

The ogee and cap are separate. The ogee stays in a fixed position for viewing while the cap raises

The "body" of the casket refers to-

The sides of the casket

What is so special about a 'priest' or 'clergy' casket?

The top is removed from the casket; allowing viewing on both sides

In measuring the thickness of a ferrous casket, the lower the number, the ________ the casket metal.

Thicker

Judging the differences between the weights of two ferrous metal casket thicknesses, the casket with the higher number represents the casket with the _______ metal.

Thinner

If a casket has a gasket, the gasket will be "sandwiched" between the _____ & ______.

Top body molding and ogee

The ultimate casket shell design is considered to be the-

Urn shell

A "state" casket is one which is/has-

Vertical sides at right angles to the bottom

A receptical that is "in the shape of man" would most likely be:

Wide and the shoulders and more narrow at the head and at the foot

The most common bronze casket produced and sold today by american funeral homes is the:

Wrought bronze

How does one make a casket material known as copper?

You can't- it's a natural element

If one galvanizes a metal, a coating of _____ is generally applied to the metal.

Zinc

What type of laminate has layers of wood glued together so that each layer has grains at a right angle to the layer above or below it?

Plywood