CREMATION EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED SOLUTIONS JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR

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CREMATION TEST WITH COMPLETE 300
QUESTIONS AND WELL ELABORATED ANSWERS
JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR
QUESTION: Modern Cremation Movement - ANSWER✔✔Refers to cremation in a furnace, in a
building, instead of an outdoor open air funeral pyre.




QUESTION: 1st Modern U.S. Crematory - ANSWER✔✔Dr. Francis LeMoyne built the 1st
crematory in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1876.




QUESTION: Cremation as a method of final disposition - ANSWER✔✔Believed to have begun in
Greece around 3000 BC.




QUESTION: Ancient Greeks - ANSWER✔✔Introduced cremation and believed it would set the
soul free from the body.




QUESTION: Ancient Romans - ANSWER✔✔Continued cremation practices; the oldest son would
light the funeral pyre.

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QUESTION: Cremation - ANSWER✔✔Reduction of a dead human body to inorganic bone
fragments by intense heat in a specifically designed retort or chamber.




QUESTION: Crematory - ANSWER✔✔Physical location of the cremator where the cremation
process is performed.




QUESTION: Cremator/Retort - ANSWER✔✔Mechanical unit used in the cremation process.




QUESTION: Funeral Pyre - ANSWER✔✔Huge and often elaborate piles of wood. Dead bodies
were burned on these open-air, outdoor structures.




QUESTION: Columbarium - ANSWER✔✔Structure, room, or space containing niches or recesses
used to hold cremated remains.




QUESTION: Niche - ANSWER✔✔Recess or space used for the permanent placement of
cremated remains.




QUESTION: Cremation in Scandinavia - ANSWER✔✔Considered the main method of final
disposition between approximately 2200 BC to 1570 BC until the 10th Century AD.

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QUESTION: 1st U.S. Cremation - ANSWER✔✔Occurred in December 1792 by Colonel Henry
Laurens on an outdoor funeral pyre.




QUESTION: Modern Cremation - ANSWER✔✔Scientific process that takes place in a controlled
chamber built for this specific purpose.




QUESTION: Slogan of Modern Cremation Movement - ANSWER✔✔"Saved from the worms,
purified by the fire!"




QUESTION: Publications on Cremation vs. Burial - ANSWER✔✔Included newspapers,
magazines, and medical journals.




QUESTION: LeMoyne Crematory - ANSWER✔✔The only crematory in the country for a decade
after its establishment.




QUESTION: Vienna Exhibition of 1873 - ANSWER✔✔Where Professor Ludovico Brunetti
invented the first furnace made for cremations.




QUESTION: Sir Henry Thompson - ANSWER✔✔Wrote a dissertation titled 'Cremation: The
Treatment of the Body After Death.'

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QUESTION: Funeral Museum - ANSWER✔✔Next to Commonwealth, has a replica of the front of
LeMoyne's Crematory.




QUESTION: Dr. Francis Julius LeMoyne - ANSWER✔✔Built the 1st Crematory in America in
Pennsylvania.




QUESTION: 1st Modern U.S. Cremation - ANSWER✔✔12/6/1876 - 1st Modern U.S. Cremation
took place when Baron Joseph De Palm was cremated.




QUESTION: Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform Association - ANSWER✔✔1884 -
constructed their crematory nearby in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.




QUESTION: U.S. cremation company at Fishpond, Long Island - ANSWER✔✔1885 - organized by
U.S. Cremation supporters, remains the longest continuously running crematory in the country.




QUESTION: Sons of a Buffalo, New York physician - ANSWER✔✔Later in 1885 - opened a
crematory in their father's name.




QUESTION: 1st funeral home with crematory - ANSWER✔✔1886 - opened, owned by Hudson
Sampson in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.