Cemetery and Cremation Final Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Principles of conduct based on values related to good and right
behavior that guide personal as well as business decisions and
actions -
correct answer ✅Ethics
-environmental protection (use of equipment and cremation
container materials that minimalize pollution; energy conservation)
-religious and cultural practices regarding proper treatment of dead
and cremated remains (aiding families in making arrangements that
are compatible with their culture and religious traditions) -
correct answer ✅Ethical Practices
-offering nothing less than extraordinary service
-show same compassion for cremation and full service families
-never make assumptions - side with caution
-maintain your equipment -
correct answer ✅Role of the Operator
Maintain an ________ at both the funeral home and crematory -
keep facilities ready to accept the public at a moment's notice -
correct answer ✅Open Door Policy
,Cemetery and Cremation Final Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
The reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone fragments
by intense heat in a specially designed retort chamber -
correct answer ✅Cremation
The oldest archeological evidence of cremation comes from
Australia circa _____________ -
correct answer ✅23,000 BCE
Evidence of cremation in Neolithic sites in America circa
__________. -
correct answer ✅9,500
Cremation was a __________ in the ancient world -
correct answer ✅Standard Practice
_________ adopted cremation on the widest scale, holding
proprieties of cremation in the highest regard about 600 BCE. -
correct answer ✅Romans
The beginning of the _______________ saw the end of widespread
cremation -
correct answer ✅Christian Era
,Cemetery and Cremation Final Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Under this emperor, earth burial replaced cremation as the
accepted form of disposition in Europe for 1500 years -
correct answer ✅Emperor Constantine
English physician that wrote the first modern book advocating
cremation as an alternative to burial in 1658 -
correct answer ✅Sir Thomas Browne
In ____, cremation was revived at the International Medical
Congress of Florence to be promoted in the name of public health
and civilization -
correct answer ✅1869
At the Vienna International Exposition in 1873, ____________
unveiled his cremation furnace -
correct answer ✅Professor Brunetti
Author of "Cremation: the Treatment of the Body after Death" in
1874
-cremation - sanitary
, Cemetery and Cremation Final Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
-founded Cremation Society of Great Britain -
correct answer ✅Sir Henry Thompson
These two groups began the American cremation movement -
correct answer ✅Protestant Clergy and Medical Professionals
Built what is recognized as the first crematory in the US in 1876 -
correct answer ✅Dr. Francis J. LeMoyne
Dr. LeMoyne's crematory was built here in 1876 -
correct answer ✅Washington, Pennsylvania
In this year, the New York Cremation Society was organized -
correct answer ✅1881
In 1884, America's second crematory was built here -
correct answer ✅Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Banned cremation in 1886 -
correct answer ✅Leo XIII
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Principles of conduct based on values related to good and right
behavior that guide personal as well as business decisions and
actions -
correct answer ✅Ethics
-environmental protection (use of equipment and cremation
container materials that minimalize pollution; energy conservation)
-religious and cultural practices regarding proper treatment of dead
and cremated remains (aiding families in making arrangements that
are compatible with their culture and religious traditions) -
correct answer ✅Ethical Practices
-offering nothing less than extraordinary service
-show same compassion for cremation and full service families
-never make assumptions - side with caution
-maintain your equipment -
correct answer ✅Role of the Operator
Maintain an ________ at both the funeral home and crematory -
keep facilities ready to accept the public at a moment's notice -
correct answer ✅Open Door Policy
,Cemetery and Cremation Final Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
The reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone fragments
by intense heat in a specially designed retort chamber -
correct answer ✅Cremation
The oldest archeological evidence of cremation comes from
Australia circa _____________ -
correct answer ✅23,000 BCE
Evidence of cremation in Neolithic sites in America circa
__________. -
correct answer ✅9,500
Cremation was a __________ in the ancient world -
correct answer ✅Standard Practice
_________ adopted cremation on the widest scale, holding
proprieties of cremation in the highest regard about 600 BCE. -
correct answer ✅Romans
The beginning of the _______________ saw the end of widespread
cremation -
correct answer ✅Christian Era
,Cemetery and Cremation Final Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Under this emperor, earth burial replaced cremation as the
accepted form of disposition in Europe for 1500 years -
correct answer ✅Emperor Constantine
English physician that wrote the first modern book advocating
cremation as an alternative to burial in 1658 -
correct answer ✅Sir Thomas Browne
In ____, cremation was revived at the International Medical
Congress of Florence to be promoted in the name of public health
and civilization -
correct answer ✅1869
At the Vienna International Exposition in 1873, ____________
unveiled his cremation furnace -
correct answer ✅Professor Brunetti
Author of "Cremation: the Treatment of the Body after Death" in
1874
-cremation - sanitary
, Cemetery and Cremation Final Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
-founded Cremation Society of Great Britain -
correct answer ✅Sir Henry Thompson
These two groups began the American cremation movement -
correct answer ✅Protestant Clergy and Medical Professionals
Built what is recognized as the first crematory in the US in 1876 -
correct answer ✅Dr. Francis J. LeMoyne
Dr. LeMoyne's crematory was built here in 1876 -
correct answer ✅Washington, Pennsylvania
In this year, the New York Cremation Society was organized -
correct answer ✅1881
In 1884, America's second crematory was built here -
correct answer ✅Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Banned cremation in 1886 -
correct answer ✅Leo XIII
