PNBE ARTS (PAID) 2020

Masselin is a casket?

Upholstery material

What are ritual garments worn by clergy?

Vestments

If an individual was intoxicated when the contractual portion of the Statement of Funeral Goods and services Selected was signed, the contract is

Voidable

As a funeral practitioner, the only people you should inform, even if asked, that the deceased has an infectious disease are appropriate members o

Your Staff

How long must a funeral home retain a copy of the General Price List?

1 year after its discontinued use

What is the accrued interest after 3 months on a one year, $1,000 note at a 9% annual interest rate?

22.50

A casket invoiced as 6' 6" XX would be how many inches wide?

27

What is an example of an alternative container?

A cardboard container

A public declaration or statement of professional standards of right and wrong conduct defines?

A code of ethics

A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved and to the trends of the times is called?

Adaptive

What is one of the tasks of mourning?

Adjust the environment in which the deceased is missing

An unfinished wood box, or other non-metal receptable or enclosure, with or without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is made of fiberboard, pressed-wood or composition materials (with or without an outside covering) is called a/ an:

Alternative container

What describes an estate in which the liabilities exceed the assets?

An insolvent estate

Blame directed outward is the definition of?

Anger

In the Jewish faith, a coffin made entirely of wood and containing no metal parts is known as (n)

Aron

Upon arrival at the cemetery for a committal service, the practitioner should first

Assemble the pallbearers behind the funeral coach

A legal instrument authorizing payment of insurance funds for funeral expenses to a funeral home is a/ an?

Assignment proceeds

The party who assigns a contract is the?

Assignor

When placing the casket on the grave-lowering device, the casket bearers should grasp what portion of the handle?

Bar

The only fee permitted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to be non-declinable at the outset of the funeral transaction is the charge for?

Basic services for funeral practitioner and staff

When a child has experienced the death of a close family member, it is best to bring the child to the funeral home for the first time

Before Scheduled Visitation

Which fraternal organization may need assistance with setting up the tolling of the bell at the 11th hour?

Benevolent and Protection Order of Elks

Funeral homes are required to provide specific training, protective clothing, and vaccination against Hepatitis B under which of the OSHA Standards?

Bloodborne Pathogen

Which container is most suitable for cremation?

Cardboard Container

What are similar to rituals and charged with symbolic content

Ceremonies

A burial container that is broader at the shoulder than at the head or feet, is called a

Coffin

What is not an OSHA Standard?

Communicable Disease

Grief extending over a long period of time without resolution is called?

Complicated

What is a determinant of grief?

Concurrent Stresses

A decedent is in the care of a funeral home. A second funeral home that has control of the final disposition is said to have?

Constructive possession

After having obtained consent from the next of kin for cremation, a funeral practitioner discovers the deceased has a pacemaker. The funeral practitioner should?

Contact the next of kin for consent to remove the pacemaker

Who is responsible for appointing an administrator/ personal representative if there is no will?

Court

What is the shape of a liturgical church?

Cross

In a Catholic funeral mass, the recessional is led down the aisle by the

Crucifer

What is an interior style for a casket?

Crushed

What form is needed to obtain military service information?

DD-214

The decedent's Social Security number is required to be entered on the?

Death Certificate

To which party do D-Mort personnel have a legal responsibility?

Deceased's next of kin

Who may receive the lump sum death benefit from Social Security?

Dependent adult child

Which type of disposition is devoid of any form of funeral rite?

Direct

What is the responsibility of the funeral attendant during visitation?

Direct visitors to the appropriate room

When is it necessary to perform a visual identification for cremation, the practitioner should?

Disinfect/bathe the body prior to the identification viewing

Which design applies to a casket end or corner?

Elliptic

What may be initiated verbally and subsequently executed in writing?

Embalming Authorization

What is NOT required to be on the General Price List?

Embalming charges

The social values of the funeral rite are most commonly learned through?

Enculturation

With what religion would the practitioner ensure that the casket is closed during the funeral service in the church?

Episcopal

The feeling that one's own cultural responses and activities relative to death are superior to those of other cultures is an example of

Ethnocentrism

What type of contract does the funeral home have with a family of the deceased at the time the transfer is made?

Expressed

Crying is an example of a/ an?

External response to an emotion

During a roman Catholic funeral Mass, the casket for a lay person is usually placed?

Foot-end toward the altar

Which of the following is regulated by OSHA?

Formaldehyde levels

What has occurred if a funeral service practitioner intentionally misrepresents a benefit of a preneed funeral arrangement?

Fraud

Which fraternal organization uses a sheepskin apron to be placed on a deceased member?

Free and accepted Masons

An irrevocable preneed funeral contract stipulates that the

Funds cannot be refunded

Which individual leads the processional in a non-liturgical protestant church?

Funeral Practitioner

What price list must be offered to each consumer for their information and retention?

General Price List

What is a proper technique for answering the funeral home phone?

Give the caller the name of the person answering the phone

What form of therapy best describes helping an individual cope with grief following the death of a loved one?

Grief Therapy

A Greek Orthodox religious picture is called a/an?

Icon

The best lighting option for the selection room is?

Indirect Incandescent

The state or condition of dying without having made a valid will is called?

Intestate

The proper terminology for the placing of cremated remains into a final container is?

Inurnment

To qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid benefits, applicants purchasing preneed funerals must enter into which of the following contracts?

Irrevocable

How should the practice of viewing the deceased prior to cremation be explained?

It aids in accepting the reality of the death

When explaining caskets to a family, what should the term protective indicate?

It is designed to resist the entrance of outside element

A cloth material of flax fibers is called?

Linen

What type of church uses a prescribed order or form of worship with the eucharist or Holy Communion as the central focus?

Liturgical

Which action should be taken when utilizing a third-party crematory for the first time?

Make an unannounced visit to the crematory to make an inspection of the facilities

The FTC's cooling-off regulation for door-to-door sales mandates that preneed sellers inform their customers that they have the right to cancel the transaction at any time prior to

Midnight of the third business day after the date of transactions

What must the Outer Burial Container Price List include?

Name of funeral home

The first step to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)compliance is the creation of a

Needs Assessment

During a home transfer/ removal, a funeral practitioner asks for permission to embalm. Does this request require distribution of a General Price List?

No, as long as the consumer is informed that embalming is not required by law except in special cases.

What might be a transfer obstacle when performing a home removal?

Objects or furniture to be removed

What religious groups prohibit cremation?

Orthodox Jews and Muslims

The most commonly accepted means of measuring thickness of copper and bronzer casket is?

Ounces per square foot

Which document in NOT required by the Federal Trade Commissions (FTC)?

Outer Burial Container Price Lis

What statement is true regarding cemeteries?

Ownership of cemetery property gives the owner the right to schedule burial according to cemetery rules

What statement is true regarding transfer of remains from the place of death to the funeral home?

PPE should be utilized, even when there is no known infectious disease present.

Traditionally, the name given to a symbolic cloth covering placed over the casket is a/ an?

Pall

What statement is true regarding the funeral cortege to the cemetery?

Pall bearers follow the hearse

A funeral practitioner must obtain authorization to cremate a deceased from the?

Person who has right of disposition

An item of stationery with a religious icon on one side and the deceased's name and a verse on the other side is called a(n)?

Prayer card

During at-need arrangements, it is found that the deceased has a prearrangement on file. The prearrangement was done in a manner so that if the plans are followed, no additional payment is required at the time of services. Which type of prearrangement was completed?

Pre-Funded Guaranteed Contract

The placing of a deceased Native American tribal member on a scaffold is known as a/ an?

Primitive funeral rite.

The increments between casket prices, when arranged in order of their increasing value, is called?

Progression

What areas of employee law does the Fair Labor Standards Act Not cover?

Reasonable Accommodations

What document should be executed when releasing cremated remains?

Receipt of Acknowledgement

How does a practitioner use the direct selection room procedure for vault selection

Remaining in the selection room

The difference between the total debits and the total credits in an account is the?

Revenue

A document required by the Department of Veterans Affairs to obtain burial benefits is a?

Separation/Discharge Form

During the procession to the grave, a rabbi may stop the pallbearers how many times to pray?

Seven

What is an abnormal fear of death?

Thanatophbia

What statement is true regarding cremation?

The authorization contains instructions as to ultimate disposition of cremated remains.

The best way to ensure identification of the decedent is?

The authorizing agent or their designee viewing the deceased.

What is a common trait found in every culture of mankind?

The funeral rite

What is true regarding the schedule of cremation?

The largest decedents are always cremated first

A Statement of Funeral Goods and Services Selected must be presented to

The person purchasing merchandise and services

In comparing a 16- gauge and a 20- gauge steel casket, the 16- gauge casket would be?

Thicker and Heavier

A funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony which may be dictated either by religious beliefs or social customs of a society is?

Traditional Funeral Rite