110 INTRO FUNERAL SERVICE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Jewish Funeral Directors of America (JFDA) - Answer-an association which guides, aids
and supports members in honoring the deceased and comforting the bereaved by
preserving, promoting and practicing the customs and traditions of the Jewish funeral.
Dr. Auguste Renouard - Answer-dean of early embalming
Jessica Mitford - Answer-- published The American Way of Death (1963)
1984 - Answer-FTC funeral rule is enacted
restorative art - Answer-term applied to systematic treatment of cases requiring repair of
injuries due to disease or trauma. Joel Crandall, a New York City embalmer, is credited
with developing such a treatment plan in 1912.
Demi-Surgery - Answer-the art of building or creating parts of the body which had been
destroyed by accident, disease, decomposition, or discoloration and making the body
perfectly natural and lifelike
Derma-surgery - Answer-skin surgery
Joel Crandall - Answer-1912, New York, developing Restorative Art. introduced demi-
surgery
Albert Worsham - Answer-Well-known lecturer, noted for his contribution to the early
foundation of postmortem plastic surgery, opened his own school in Chicago.
formal dicipline - Answer-1945: subject of the address at the National Funeral Directors
Association Convention in Chicago
Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne - Answer-Erected America's first crematory in 1876 at
Washington, Pennsylvania
Dr. Hugo Erichsen - Answer-Founded the Cremation Association of America (later
changed to CANA) in 1913:
Allen Durfee - Answer-1879. started first state convention of undertakers in Michigan
jobbing - Answer-mass production of caskets. were poor quality
Drummers - Answer-traveling salesmen who went from town to town selling their
products. Early embalmers often obtained their products and training in this manner.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Jewish Funeral Directors of America (JFDA) - Answer-an association which guides, aids
and supports members in honoring the deceased and comforting the bereaved by
preserving, promoting and practicing the customs and traditions of the Jewish funeral.
Dr. Auguste Renouard - Answer-dean of early embalming
Jessica Mitford - Answer-- published The American Way of Death (1963)
1984 - Answer-FTC funeral rule is enacted
restorative art - Answer-term applied to systematic treatment of cases requiring repair of
injuries due to disease or trauma. Joel Crandall, a New York City embalmer, is credited
with developing such a treatment plan in 1912.
Demi-Surgery - Answer-the art of building or creating parts of the body which had been
destroyed by accident, disease, decomposition, or discoloration and making the body
perfectly natural and lifelike
Derma-surgery - Answer-skin surgery
Joel Crandall - Answer-1912, New York, developing Restorative Art. introduced demi-
surgery
Albert Worsham - Answer-Well-known lecturer, noted for his contribution to the early
foundation of postmortem plastic surgery, opened his own school in Chicago.
formal dicipline - Answer-1945: subject of the address at the National Funeral Directors
Association Convention in Chicago
Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne - Answer-Erected America's first crematory in 1876 at
Washington, Pennsylvania
Dr. Hugo Erichsen - Answer-Founded the Cremation Association of America (later
changed to CANA) in 1913:
Allen Durfee - Answer-1879. started first state convention of undertakers in Michigan
jobbing - Answer-mass production of caskets. were poor quality
Drummers - Answer-traveling salesmen who went from town to town selling their
products. Early embalmers often obtained their products and training in this manner.
