Funeral Directing Compendium WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
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98% of the notification of deaths comes to the funeral home by means of? - Answers:Telephone
A burial-transit permit is not needed for? - Answers:Remains which are used for scientific or
educational study
The proper word which means placing of remains in a crypt in a mausoleum is? -
Answers:Entombment
The Latin term for an ornamental vase, especially one with an ornate pedestal, often used as a
receptacle for the cremated remains of a deceased human or animal? - Answers:Urn
What is the name often used to refer to the holy book of Islam? - Answers:Koran/Qua ran
The person who usually makes the notification of death to the funeral home is usually? -
Answers:A member of the family
When jewelry is found on the deceased during a residential removal, you as the funeral director
should do what? - Answers:Check with the family about the jewelry and remove it if they so
desire
What is an obituary? - Answers:A brief biological sketch of a person's life
When the remains have been prepared at the mortuary and later taken to a Presbyterian church
for the funeral service, the funeral director normally provides for all of the following except?
Ushering, church truck, prie dieu, and floral display equipment - Answers:Prie dieu
What information is not needed to complete a death certificate? - Answers:Religious affiliation
, When a person dies at home without medical attention and has not been seen by a doctor in more
that 30 days, an official inquiry into the cause of death is made by the? - Answers:Coroner
The "Committal Service" is usually held at the? - Answers:Grave site
Who has the preference to receive the burial flag for the deceased veteran? - Answers:Father
A metal or concrete enclosure designed to protect the casket is called? - Answers:A vault
The portion of the funeral home which contains caskets and other funeral merchandise displayed
for sale is most often referred to as the? - Answers:Selection room
A monument erected to the memory of the dead, with the the dead human body not present is? -
Answers:A cenotaph
A printed form the funeral home uses specifically for the funeral director and the family to make
funeral and financial arrangement is the? - Answers:Arrangement form
The act of placing a dead human body in a grave is called? - Answers:Interment
In the Jewish faith, the one year anniversary of the death? - Answers:Yahrzeit
A device upon which caskets are placed one above the other for display is known as a? -
Answers:Casket rack
A man who has lost his spouse by death is known as a? - Answers:Widower
The individual who supplies the statistical data concerning the deceased at the funeral
arrangement conference is the? - Answers:Informant
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