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A term to describe the experience of grief, especially in young bereaved parents, where mourning customs are lacking or unclear due to an inappropriate response to death and the absence of prior bereavement experience:

Anomic grief

The sum of a group of sales figures divided by the number of units is known as the

Average sale

That portion of the casket hardware which is grasped by the casket bearers when carrying the casket is called the:

Bar

Membership consists of one male and one female and the children from their previous marriages and may include children from the present marriage:

Blended family

The release of cremated human remains into the wind?

Both casting and scattering

A source that might bring radiation near embalmers or crematory operators. Sometimes called "seed implantation".

Brachytherapy

In cremation, the __________ supplies heat to raise the temperature of the cremation chamber to the point where combustion of the human remains and container is possible.

Burner

A realistic attitude toward death

Can best be developed during adolescence

The State, in its exercise of Police Power, would create one of these to regulate the creation of cemeteries by providing for their establishment and discontinuance as well as to monitor their use:

Cemetery Authority

Source of market data that keeps track of new home sales by region and/or the construction of new houses by region and specific area

Census of Housing

A type of complicated grief which is prolonged and is excessive in duration is

Chronic grief

The registered right of a creator to reproduce, publish, and sell the work which is the product of the intelligence and skill of that person:

Copyright

What is the term for the type of cardboard which is made with a series of zig-zag folds of thick paper with a smooth layer glued to either side of that folded paper?

Corrugated cardboard

The individual providing at-need assistance and guidance to another person is:

Counselor

A heating process that reduces human remains to bone fragments by combustion and evaporation in the presences of an open flame:

Cremation

Death certificates must be reviewed and approved by the Office of the Medical Examiner, in a majority of states, for which one of these dispositions?

Cremation

The sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant, which remains unexplained after a complete autopsy and a review of the circumstances around the death:

Crib Death sudden infant death syndrome S.I.D.S.

Abstract patterns of living and dying developed over a lifetime of living in a particular society is the definition of:

Culture

A newspaper notice simply stating the name of the deceased, dates of birth and death and the location of service.

Death notice

Often abbreviated- EOQ:

Economic Order Quantity

The quantity to be purchased which minimizes total costs:

Economic order quantity

One who initiates, plans, and assumes the risk for a successful new business is called an ___.

Entrepreneur

The change in family dynamics due to the death of a child would be decreased simply by the larger number of children in a:

Extended family

Obtaining cash before payments are received from customers by selling off one's accounts receivable to a third party:

Factoring

Also known as - Wage and Hour Laws:

Fair Labor Standards Act

Requires employers to pay a minimum wage to employees, and to pay a minimum of one and one-half times the regular rate for any hours beyond forty worked in a week:

Fair Labor Standards Act

Mr. Meadows passed away an hour ago at the local community hospital. His son Brian is calling on behalf of his mother, Lorraine to ask the funeral home to handle the arrangements and transfer the remains from the hospital to the funeral home. The funeral home gets the information needed and asks their employee Tony to go to the hospital and transfer the remains to the care of the funeral home. This describes a typical:

First call

Rites with the body present:

Funeral

An all-inclusive term used by people to encompass all funeral and/or memorial services is

Funeral rite

Blame directed toward one's self based on real or unreal conditions is called

Guilt

Which of these casket types is the most expensive?

Hardwood

Words are spelled the same, might be pronounced the same but not necesssarily, with different meanings are called:

Homonyms

While planning the funeral Mass for her husband, Mrs. O'Malley paid $200 to the church, $200 to the priest, $100 to the Deacon, $150 to the pianist/organist and $200 to the soloist. These were added to her funeral bill and the funeral home took care of these payments on her behalf. What are these payments called?

Honorariums

To bury or put a dead body into a grave:

Inter

Those goods or stock of goods which are held for resale:

Inventory

Which of the following is not considered to be a characteristic of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?

It is based on heredity

Life insurance that protects a firm against losses due to the death of a key employee:

Key-person life insurance

A crematory shall not accept a casket or cremation container from which there is evidence of:

Leakage

The art and science of motivating employees toward the achievement of a goal:

Management

A group of potential customers possessing purchasing power and unsatisfied needs:

Market

Excessive written or verbal communication would be considered:

Message overload

The modern definition of psychology is that it is the study of individual human:

Mind and behavior

Which of the following terms best describes relocation or travel?

Mobility

A nuncupative will is

Oral will

Which of the following religions places restrictions on the removal of their dead during sabbath?

Orthodox Jewish

That portion of the atmosphere supplied to the cremation chamber for combustion, cooling and ventilation is:

Oxygen

A cemetery, originally a cemetery for the victims of great battles:

Polyandrium

To relieve family of the burden of making arrangements in a time of acute grief; ensure that personal wishes are known; to relieve survivors of financial burden; and to reduce assets for Medicaid eligibility are some of the reasons why people choose to make ___________ arrangements.

Prefunded funeral

Music played before a funeral service is the:

Prelude

To pound, crush, smash or hammer into a powder or dust like consistency?

Pulverize

Which type of cemetery is allowed to be selective about who may be buried there?

Religious

Transferring a loved one into the care of the funeral home from the place of death describes:

Removal

The fair market price to purchase similar products in similar condition:

Replacement value approach

Another name for the ogee of the casket shell is

Rim

Social Security application for lump sum death benefit (claimant's form):

S.S.A. 8

Application for lump sum death benefit:

SSA 8

Which of the following is an example of a grave liner?

Sectional box

A prediction or expectation of an event that makes the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise:

Self-fulfilling prophecy

The base molding is a part of the casket:

Shell

Often if two or more people are involved in an accident where one is killed but other(s) were not, those who remain suffer from a psychological trauma called ___

Survivor guilt

Sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss or the death of a close friend or relative:

Sympathy

When the interior material is tightly stretched across the panel of the casket it is said to be:

Tailored

Ninety-eight percent of the notification of deaths comes to the funeral home by means of:

Telephone

A complete sentence that describes the central idea of a speech and is usually found in the first paragraph is a:

Thesis statement

The Greeks called the swollen ground or mound which marked gravesites a tumulus. Today, the word _______ is used chiefly to refer to those burial places which are above ground.

Tomb

The quality of one's voice (angry, happy, etc.)?

Tone

A receptacle into which processed cremated remains are placed.

Urn

Outlaws discrimination in employment against Vietnam Era veterans :

Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Act

Which of the following terms is synonymous with loudness?

Volume

A gasket sealed container used as either an insert into a casket or as a shipping case is

a ziegler case

A commemorative inscription on a tomb or monument is:

an epitaph

The point at which total sales revenue equals total operating costs:

break - even point

Insurance that protects companies during the period necessary to restore property damaged by an insured peril. Coverage typically pays for lost income and other expenses related to recovery:

business interruption insurance

In the funeral procession, the family car should be placed:

directly after the funeral coach

The method by which social values are learned

enculturation

Which of the following is a purpose of the funeral?

establish a socially acceptable climate for mourning

Which of the following would NOT be an acceptable counseling principle applicable to funeral service?

insist the client gain a new perspective

Which of the following examples explain how funeral service facilitates grief?

it allows grievers to feel the pain of loss

Which of the following is a slightly rigid material that is used in casket interior design. It backs up or supports the visible interior fabric. The material in question is not visible when the interior is

masselin

Vaults are

measured by inside dimensions

Increasingly family members are choosing not to have the types of funerals that their grandparents or parents had. Today families are having services with no religious content. These types of gatherings include:

non-traditional services memorial gatherings humanistic funerals

Which of the following is a style of counseling rather than a type of counseling?

person-centered

Visual inspection of the machinery and smokestack of cremation equipment should be inspected ___________ or _________ when not in use.

prior to every use - at least every 30 days

The document executed and signed by the seller and the buyer which describes the items furnished, the price of those items, and the terms of payment is the:

sales contract

A non-movable handle that extends all the way around the casket is called a(n):

stationary bar handle

Which one of the following is NOT eligible for burial at sea paid for by the US government?

teachers of mortuary science

Which of these accurately describes who may receive cremains from the funeral home which received them directly from the crematory?

the person designated in writing by the authorizing agent

Crematory operated by an entity other than the funeral home or funeral provider who contracted with the family of the deceased is called:

third party crematory only

Which of the following is not a general purpose for making a speech?

to distract

Spoken, oral communication expressed in words:

verbal communication

A time set aside for family and friends to pay respects to the deceased and greet the family before the funeral.

visitation calling hours wake

If a manufacturer's standard metal casket is 23 inches wide, how wide is a oversize casket labeled as 23 XXX?

29 inches

Human remains are made up of _________ % moisture, __________% combustible solids, and ___________ % non-combustible solids and are classified as Type ___________ waste.

85; 10; 5; 4

The age at which a child understand death as being both final and inevitable is

9 years and above

___________ is/are recommended to assist in loading casketed or containerized human remains into the cremation unit.

A 2 1/2 inch diameter cardboard roller

A Burial/Transit Permit with cremation selected as the final disposition is called:

A Burial/Transit Permit

A cemetery located on a private property which is not available to the general public is called:

A family cemetery

Directing is also known as:

Actuating Leading Controlling

The basic emotion; may take the form of shame, blame or guilt depending onto whom the feeling is projected:

Anger

The second stage of anticipatory grief according to Kubler-ross is:

Anger