NB ARTS

The action level for formaldehyde when calculated using an 8-hour TWA is:

0.5 ppm

The funeral director is required by the Funeral Rule to retain all price lists for a ____________ period from the date the price lists were last distributed.

1 year

When this limit is exceeded, the employer must take proper steps to reduce employee exposure:

Action Level

Which hazard is not represented by the Health Hazard pictogram?

Acute Toxin (Severe)

Mr. Bowinkle dies without a will and Jon is appointed by the courts to handle the affairs of the estate. Jon is an example of

Administrator

After washing, the deceased is to be clothed in a shroud of either silk or cotton. Those who are 15 or older will be adorned with a burial ring, placed on the forefinger. Hardwood caskets are required.

Baha'i

A deceased female, in the Jewish faith.

Bat Minen

Which of the following is the officiant at the funeral service for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?

Bishop

What is the rubric of the Episcopal Church?

Book of Common Prayer

In the Jewish faith, the prayers said during the Tehillim are found here.

Book of Psalms

A management function which compares organizational and individual performance with predetermined standards or expected results:

Both Evaluating and Controlling

An alloy of copper and tin is called:

Bronze

What or who is a Bonze?

Buddhist Priest

Fundamental statements that serve as guides to management practice:

Business policies

The icon is associated with the:

Eastern Orthodox church

A memorial service, in the Jewish faith.

El Malei Rachamin

Liturgical denominations are _________ centered.

Eucharist

A pleasant term substituted for a more direct, less pleasant term.

Euphemism

Physical hazard classes include:

Explosives

Incorrect thoughts that lead us to believe that we have heard the message before are

Faulty assumptions

A non-compulsive standard of behavior that is only socially enforced:

Folkway

VA Headstone or Marker:

Form 40-1330

Statement of Death by Funeral Director:

Form S.S.A 721

Application for Lump Sum Death Benefit-

Form S.S.A. 8

First two and last two verses of a Buddhist hymn sung at the funeral service.

Gatha

In a Liturgical Church, the left side of the church (as the congregation faces the altar) from which the minister delivers the sermon is known as the _____________.

Gospel

How touch effects the communication process.

Haptics

The Jewish eulogy is known as

Hesped

Leader of the local congregation, in Islam

Imam

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

Key-person life insurance

Funeral procession, in the Jewish faith.

Levaya

The Jewish term for funeral cortege?

Levaya

Local Islamic religious facility containing no icons, statues, symbols, pews, chairs, or musical instruments; a Mosque.

Masjid

"My Lord" in the Roman Catholic faith.

Monsignor

Honorary title of a Roman Catholic Priest

Monsignor

Which of the following is TRUE about Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL) and Short Term Exposure Limits (STEL) for formaldehyde?

No employee may be exposed above the PEL or STEL.

Any Western Christian who is not an adherent of the Roman Catholic Faith

Protestant

The vessel, or cabinet in which the Blessed Sacrament is kept.

Pyx

A dead human body is said to be

Quasi-property

denominations that traditionally utilize a pall during the funeral service?

Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran

A religious picture, usually of Jesus Christ in the Roman Catholic faith.

Sacred Heart

The study of meaning of words and phrases in language.

Semantics

The Jewish term for a Seven Day mourning period that begins on the day of burial is

Shiva

The Jewish term for the 30 Day mourning period is

Shloshim

Greeting people with a pleasant smile, eye contact, and a firm handshake are examples of

Soft Skills

A printed form the funeral home uses specifically for the funeral director and the family to make funeral and financial arrangements is the:

Statement of Funeral Goods and Services Selected

Which hazard is represented by the Exploding Bomb pictogram?

The product is capable of rapidly expanding and damaging surroundings.

A complete sentence describing the central idea of a speech, usually found in the first paragraph.

Thematic

receptacle in which incense is burned, in the Roman Catholic faith.

Thurible

Within a patriarchal joint/extended family, who would assume control at the death of the father (age 62)

Tom, son- age 37

A check of the equality of debits and credits:

Trial balance

This type of casket has a fine wood covering placed over a less expensive particle board under structure and given a beautiful finish:

Veneer

A contract in which undue influence was proven is considered

Voidable

Place the following in order of preference for flag presentation:

Widow or widower, Children, according to age, Parents, including adoptive, stepparents, and foster parents, Brothers or sisters, including brothers or sister of the half-blood, Uncles or aunts, Nephews or nieces, Cousins, grandparents, or close friends

In the Jewish faith, the One Year anniversary of the death?

Yahrzeit

Which one of the following metals is notorious for producing thick white smoke which will set off the pollution controls during the cremation process?

Zinc

The difference between the two sides of an account is called the:

account balance

The title of an account which would normally have a credit balance is:

accounts payable

Recording in each fiscal period applicable expense, whether paid or not, and income earned, whether collected or not:

accrual accounting

Laws that are designed to protect or prevent any individual from controlling a large share of market or products are

anti-trust laws

Both funerals and memorial services are:

at least partly religious

When used, the Mogen David is placed:

at the top part of the foot panel

Any refractory construction intended to change direction of flow or velocity of the products of combustion:

baffle

Money and money substitutes received:

cash receipts

Anytime someone helps someone else with a problem is one definition of

counseling

If a funeral home sells a funeral service on a 30 day account, the entry to record the transactions would be to:

debit accounts receivable; credit sales

To establish a petty cash fund, one would:

debit petty cash and credit cash

The payment of rent by cash is recorded by which of the following?

debit rent expense and credit cash

That type of self destruction in which a person has little or no group identification and is seen as a loner is referred to as

egoistic suicide

assist in the understanding of the circumstances or situations the individual is experiencing, and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary is known as counseling

facilitating

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

factoring

A term involving a relation of trust or confidence is

fiduciary

hard disk is:

fixed disk

The totaling of a column in a journal or ledger account is called:

footing

A common pattern of symptoms and reactions experienced by those who have lost relatives or friends through death is known as

grief syndrome

Accounts which when credited increase?

liabilities and owners equity

An example of backing material used in casket construction is

masselin

An adjustment process that involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved:

mourning

From the point of view of the business- A written promise of a customer to pay that business a sum of money at a future date is a/an:

note receivable

The method of dividing an intestate estate where a class or group of distributes take the share which their deceased should have been entitled to, and not as many individuals is distribution

per stirpes

The petabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix _________ indicates the fifth power of 1000 and means 1015 in the International System of Units, and therefore it is one quadrillion bytes, or 1 billiard bytes.

peta

Journal page numbers and ledger account numbers which, when present, confirms that an entry has been posted:

posting reference

Storage area which has been manufactured with predetermined information or programs, usually used to store the control program of the computer is:

read only memory

Sacred beliefs reflected in the daily conduct of an individual are part of

religion

Another name for the ogee of the casket shell is

rim

A person who watches over a deceased body through an all night vigil is called ___.

shomer

A journal designed for recording a particular type of transaction is known as a/an:

special journal

A unit of measure of memory space equal to 1024 gigabyte:

terabyte

When cash is spent in the acquisition of an asset the impact on the accounting equation is:

the asset cash is credited

The period of time required to purchase goods and services and turn them back into cash is called:

the normal operating cycle

A funeral home's company policy states that all embalmers are limited to a maximum of four hours per shift in the embalming room. The other four hours are spent doing other funeral home tasks where there is no hazardous exposure. When OSHA measures the formaldehyde level, this short shift exposure is accounted for by using ____.

time weighted average

For each extra X in width, the interior increases by:

two inches

If a funeral director marks up cash advance items or receives a commissions, rebate or discount which is not passed on to the customer, is it a violation of the Funeral Rule to represent to the consumer that the charge represents the same amount that the funeral home paid for these items?

yes

According to OSHA the IDHL for formaldehyde is

100 ppm

Exposure at STEL should not be for more than:

15 minutes and not repeated more than 4 times per work day

How many holes must be drilled into a casket to prepare it for burial at sea?

20 holes, 2 inch diameter

Adult caskets normally increase in length in

3"

The OSHA designation Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH) is determined based on the exposure level at which an unprotected person could escape within ___ of the first exposure.

30 minutes