Understanding Dying, Death, And Bereavement 7th Edition By Michael R. Leming -Test Bank

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. A song or poem expressing sorrow especially for one who is dead is a(n) __________.

*a. elegy
b. obituary
c. epitaph
d. ballad
e. eulogy

2. The cemetery that stimulated the spread of other cemeteries all over the country was __________.

a. Forest Lawn Cemetery
*b. Mount Auburn Cemetery
c. Sunny Hill Cemetery
d. Park Cemetery

3. How did the middle class in the late 19th century achieve “death with order”?

a. By making sure that the death of loved ones occurred in full view of the family.
b. The middle class felt that they could not achieve “death with order”
*c. By creating separate sphere ideology: men’s work away from the home, women’s work from men’s, specialists (medical, clerical, etc.).
d. By preparing funeral arrangements far in advance.

4. The Puritans encouraged each other to _____________ death.

a. look forward to
b. think about
c. be anxious about
*d. fear

5. Which of the following was not employed by cemetery superintendents to eliminate the suggestion of death in the cemetery.

a. Banning lot enclosures
*b. Encouraging above-ground monuments
c. Banning grave mounds
d. Encouraging shorter inscriptions on monuments

6. Which of the following reasons accounted for the shift in American culture to have cemeteries in rural settings rather than in the city?

a. Possible health hazard
b. Price of land
c. Limited space
*d. All of the above.
e. Both b and c.

7. Which of the following statements concerning death-related behavior of the Puritans is false?

a. Puritans felt an awareness of death could improve the quality of life.
b. Puritans encouraged each other to fear death.
*c. It was customary for Puritans to embalm the body before the burial.
d. Puritans felt that death was a living part of the American experience.

8. Which of the following statements is false?

a. In most areas of America, a basically “Puritan Way of Death” persisted until the 19th century.
*b. The “ideology of separate spheres” contributed to more open discussion of death in American society.
c. At the turn of the 20th century, the funeral industry attempted to keep death out of sight and out of mind.
d. Middle-class Americans wished to experience death with order.

9. Which of these statements concerning death-related behavior of Americans during the Victorian era is false?

*a. Grievers were encouraged to express their emotions in response to the death of a loved one.
b. A more elaborate funeral ritual involving “therapeutic self-indulgence” was encouraged.
c. Mourning clothes were worn as one method for extending the period of lamentation.
d. None of the above.

10. Which of these statements concerning the National Funeral Directors Association is true?
a. The association was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
*b. The first official journal produced by the association was funded by the Stein Casket Manufacturing Company.
c. The first official journal produced by the association was titled The Director.
d. None of the above.

11. Which of these statements concerning the practice of embalming and preparation of the body for burial is true?

a. Embalming became popular as a result of the World War I practice of embalming the bodies of soldiers before shipping them home from European battlefields.
b. The germ theory of disease had little impact on the popularity of the practice of embalming the body after death.
*c. In the 1920s it was the goal of many funeral directors to make the corpse look as though it were alive.
d. None of the above.