FSE210 Funeral Home Operations Final
Your casket supplier offers two types of stainless steel, namely 300 series and 400 series. You want the better of the two. Which one is the better?
300 series.
The standard size of the adult burial vault is 30"X____"
86
Are all burial vaults considered "outer burial containers"?
Yes
Is a grave liner considered an outer burial container?
Yes
How does one create a crinkled exterior finish?
By adding something to the paint before spraying.
"Anthropomorphic" would be a term that best describes a:
Coffin
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.
Bail handle hardware is a variation of-
Individual stationary.
What common element or material is shared among all ferrous caskets?
Iron
Which of these hardware parts actually connects the hardware to the side of the casket?
Lug
One-fourth of the casket sales when arranged in median order:
Quartile
The upper and lower limits of a series of numbers:
Range
Which of these is not a hardwood?
Redwood
The "slip head panel" is a variation of the _______ opening style.
Single hinged cap.
Which of these are you NOT likely to find in a gasketed format?
Single hinged cap.
Which of these caskets cannot be brushed?
Solid Mahogany.
An end seal burial vault is customarily made from which of these materials:
Steel
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
The ultimate casket shell design is considered to be the-
Urn shell.
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.
"A thin, crinkled cloth containing rayon", best describes:
Crepe
The illumination caused by a heated filament:
Incandescent lighting.
What type of lighting is most recommended by merchandisers for casket selection rooms?
Incandescent lighting.
Which type of lighting is high in yellows?
Incandescent lighting.
Which of these best describes a synthetic material that is softened, and then hardened to shape?
Plastic
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
Burial vaults that are manufactured of solid copper usually utilize which sealing method?
Air seal.
What type of burial vault seal allows a small amount of water to enter the bottom portion of the vault?
Air seal.
What part of the hardware grouping do the pallbearers actually grasp?
Bar
Which exterior finish utilizes an abrasive process?
Brushed
How does one create a hammertone casket finish?
By adding something in the casket paint before spraying.
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
The term 'casket' comes from the root word:
Casse
Which of these materials is not a typical primary burial vault material?
Cement
A top seal burial vault is usually made from what material?
Concrete
An air seal burial vault is NOT usually found in this material?
Concrete
What material is used to make a sectional box?
Concrete
If the caskets in your selection room began with the least expensive, then became more expensive as you walked further in the room, this would be an example of which arrangement method?
Consecutive grouping.
In which of these types of copper is a copper shell submerged in a copper ionic solution in order to reinforce the copper shell?
Copper deposit.
Where would one be most likely to find plush or high pile?
Covering a wood casket.
What casket display method groups 3-4 caskets together, so each can be shown to the family in some detail? These caskets are different from each other, but they represent the remainder of the caskets shown in your selection room.
Educational grouping.
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
The lighting from a tubular electric discharge lamp:
Fluorescent lighting.
Which type of lighting "burns" cooler?
Fluorescent lighting.
Which type of lighting is high in "blues"?
Fluorescent lighting.
Some caskets have two "tubes" located at the end of the casket. On which end would you find them?
Foot end.
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.
If a wood comes a coniferous tree, that tree-
Is cone-bearing.
A coffin ______ the same article as a casket.
Is not.
What is the position of the ogee in the open perfection couch casket?
It was connected in one piece with the cap, therefore it was raised for viewing.
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.
Client families that purchase wood caskets usually do so because of:
Its warmth, beauty, and craftsmanship.
Strike pins are crucial when speaking about the ______ of the casket.
Locking of the caps.
Which of these would be the ultimate hardwood?
Mahogany.
Which of these is not a softwood?
Maple
The sum of a group of figures divided by the number of units:
Mean
This is the middle number when numbers are arranged in increasing values, from the smallest to the largest number:
Median
The number that occurs most frequently in a listing of numbers:
Mode
Generally speaking, hardwoods are ______ resistant than softwoods.
More
Are all outer burial containers "burial vaults"?
No
Is a grave liner considered a burial vault?
No
The underside of the ogee would be called the _______.
Ogee flange.
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
The 'priest' or 'clergy' casket is a variation of what opening style?
Perfection full couch.
Which of these utilizes an electrolytic process in its creation?
Plated
Another term for the "ogee" is the:
Rim
In which of these methods of producing a copper casket is the molds of a casket submerged in a copper ionic solution; thereby allowing the creation of a casket within the molds of the casket? Later, the mold is broken away, leaving the casket for finishing.
Seamless copper deposit.
Which of these would be the most durable and longlasting ferrous casket?
Stainless steel.
"Direct" counseling is when the funeral director-
Stays in the selection room with the family at all times.
Which of these hardware types serves as a bridge between the bar and the lug?
The arm.
What does the term "selected hardwood" actually mean?
The casket is manufactured using different species of wood.
When determining the rooms for the selection room-
The fewer the rooms, the better.
The "body" of the casket refers to-
The sides of the casket.
How do lining materials affect the structural integrity of concrete burial vaults? (i.e., a copper inner liner within a concrete burial vault)
The structural ability of the vault is increased.
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
In measuring the thickness of a non-ferrous casket metal, the higher 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.
What is considered to be the ultimate interior style?
Tufted
Which of these interior styles appears to have small "puffs" in the cloth, and may or may not have a button or stitch in the "puff"?
Tufted
What is the minimum number of caskets that merchandisers recommend that you have in stock to show your families?
Twelve
What is considered to be the ultimate casket lining or upholstery material?
Velvet
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.
Which of these types of copper is the most common used in casket construction today?
Wrought copper.
How does one make a casket material known as copper?
You can't- it's a natural element.
Most burial recepticals sold by funeral homes in the US today are:
Caskets
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
In this opening style, it would be impossible to view the body from head to toe:
Regular couch.
What is so special about a 'priest' or 'clergy' casket?
The top is removed from the casket; allowing viewing on both sides.
"Extreme oxidation" would be an applicable term for which one of these casket metals:
Iron
Which of these types of copper was considered to be the "ultimate" copper casket ever produced?
Seamless copper deposit.
Which of these presents a wrinkled look which is produced by being sewn on a multiple needled sewing machine?
Shirred
