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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 part of the hardware grouping do the pallbearers actually grasp?

Bar

How does one create the casket metal known as bronze?

By combining copper, tin, and zinc.

Which of these components is NOT part of the typical casket?

Caging

Which of these burial recepticals was the oldest? (historically)

Coffins

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.

Which of these would not depend on the casket shell to be airtight, but would instead depend on a inner metal liner to be airtight?

Double wall glass.

Ferrous caskets are commonly measured by their thicknesses, or their _______________.

Gauge

Most gasketed caskets sold today are of this type:

Glassless

Bail handle hardware is a variation of-

Individual stationary.

If a wood comes a coniferous tree, that tree-

Is cone-bearing.

The ogee-

Is seen around the perimeter or entirety of the casket.

What is the position of the ogee in the open regular couch casket?

It was separate from the cap and hinged and folded down while the cap was raised.

Strike pins are crucial when speaking about the ______ of the casket.

Locking of the caps.

Which of these is not a softwood?

Maple

Generally speaking, hardwoods are ______ resistant than softwoods.

More

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

Ogees

Where would one find "stiffeners"?

On the bottom of the casket.

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

Which of these is not a hardwood?

Redwood

Another term for the "ogee" is the:

Rim

Historically, Which of these types of copper was considered to be the "ultimate" copper casket?

Seamless copper deposit.

The "slip head panel" is a variation of the _______ opening style.

Single hinged cap.

A flaring side casket is most likely to be which shell design?

Square cornered.

Which of these would be the most durable and longlasting ferrous casket?

Stainless steel.

The regular full couch casket-

There is no such casket.

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

Thicker

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

Top body molding and ogee.

Your client family desires the best casket you have to offer. This casket is most likely to feature what shell design?

Urn-cornered.

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

Vertical sides at right angles to the bottom.

Which of these types of copper is the most common used in casket construction today?

Wrought copper.

A coffin ______ the same article as a casket.

is NOT

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

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.

In this opening style, it would be impossible to view the body from head to toe:

Regular couch

You observe that your deceased mother-in-law's casket has the words "16 gauge" written on the base molding of the foot end of the casket. You immediately draw the conclusion that her casket is made from what material?

Steel.

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

Zinc

The term 'casket' comes from the root word:

Casse

What is considered to be the ultimate bronze casket?

Cast bronze

You helped a family today make arrangements for their son. The family wanted your finest hardwood casket (which was a mahogany) but they also wanted some assurance of protection using gasketing. You tell the family that only THIS type of closure method allows for protection in a hardwood casket:

Double wall glass.

What do "stiffeners" actually do?

Make the bottom more structurally sound.

Your friend tells you that she attended her grandmother's funeral and that the casket was 8-sided. From this description, you correctly deduct that the casket material was-

Cloth-covered wood.

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

Full-length stationary.

f you see strike pins on a casket, it's probably a fair assumption that the casket is-

Gasketed.

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

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