Funeral Services (14-15) Exam Questions and Answers
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California Funeral Association
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California Funeral Association
What two associational models formed the first funeral service organizations? - Answer-professional organizations and trade groups
What were professional organizations modeled after? - Answer-medical and legal occupations
What were trade groups modeled after? - Answer-the businessmen's organi...
Funeral Services (14-15) Exam
Questions and Answers
What two associational models formed the first funeral service organizations? - Answer-
professional organizations and trade groups
What were professional organizations modeled after? - Answer-medical and legal
occupations
What were trade groups modeled after? - Answer-the businessmen's organizations and
the blue collar occupations
What id professional organizations use as requirements for membership? - Answer-
educational and training prerequisites. They usually had standards that encouraged
professionalism and high ethical conduct
What were two Socio-Cultural Movements? - Answer-1. The general Public Health
Movement
2. The Specific Movement for Cremation
When was the General Public Health Movement formally launched? - Answer-in 1850
with the publication of the Report of the Massachusetts Sanitary Commission
When was the United States Public Health Service founded? - Answer-1878
Who built the first crematory and when? - Answer-Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne in 1876
When was the New York Cremation Society established? - Answer-in 1881
When was the Cremation Society of America founded? - Answer-1913
Who encouraged and gave impetus for cremation? - Answer-Dr. Hugo Erichsen
When was the Undertakers' Mutual Protective Association of Philadelphia founded and
what was it? - Answer-January 1864 - the first formal organization of undertakers
Who arranged the first state convention of undertakers in Jackson, Michigan and when?
- Answer-1879 - Allen Durfee
What served as the prototype for other state organizations and for the national
organization of undertakers? - Answer-The Michigan Funeral Directors Association
What was the original name of the National Funeral Director's Association and when
was it founded? - Answer-Funeral Directors' National Association - June 22, 1882
, The early leadership among undertakers consisted of whom? - Answer-mostly male,
well-to-do and fairly well educated middle class
When was a code of ethics established and where? - Answer-the third meeting of the
National Funeral Directors' Association in 1884
Who helped spread news and information concerning the occupation? - Answer-1.
"Drummers" or salesmen, by going from funeral home to funeral home
2. Trade papers
3. Trade magazines
When was the first trade paper started and who stared it? What was it called? - Answer-
The Undertaker in 1871 by Henry E. Taylor
When was the National Selected Morticians (SIFH) formed? - Answer-1917
When was the Order of the Golden Rule formed? (IOGR) - Answer-1928
When was the Jewish Funeral Directors of America formed? - Answer-1928
When was the National Funeral Directors' and Morticians' Association formed? -
Answer-1938
When was the National Foundation of Funeral Service formed? - Answer-1945
When was the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) formed? - Answer-1913
What are five issues and problems funeral service organizations face? - Answer-1.
relationships between funeral directors' associations and manufacturers/manufacturers'
associations
2. relationships with railway baggage agents/airlines
3. relationships with general public health organizations
4. relationships with health agencies in connection with the transportation of the dead
5. mortuary education and training
What four identifiable areas comprise modern funeral service education? - Answer-1.
schools of mortuary science
2. agencies that set the standards for these schools
3. committees that represent various interests in the field
4. rules and regulations laid down by state regulatory boards
What were three early mortuary science schools (the first not affiliated with fluid
companies or supply houses) - Answer-1. Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science
(1882)
2. Illinois School of Embalming (1884)
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