Mort 203 Exam 1 questions with 100% correct answers
What is the element that represents the "seat of intellect and
emotions"? - Answer✔️✔️-The heart
What did the Egyptians not give as an offering during the funeral
ceremony? - Answer✔️✔️-Meat
Which class of people received cedar oil injected into body cavities
without evisceration? - Answer✔️✔️-Middle class
According to Egyptian history, who decided who passed into
perpetual happiness or perpetual misery? - Answer✔️✔️-osiris
Which reason does not represent why Egyptians buried remains of
the human body 6 to 8 feet underground? - Answer✔️✔️-Fear of
spirits rising
What was the heart of a dead man weighed against? - Answer✔️✔️-
feather
What is the Greek word for coffin? - Answer✔️✔️-Kofinos
What was the purpose of coffins for the Egyptians and the early
African people? - Answer✔️✔️-To keep the body from touching the
Earth
What organ(s) were not placed in Canopic jars? - Answer✔️✔️-Spleen
and kidneys
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What did the four heads on the Canopic jars represent? -
Answer✔️✔️-The 4 children of Horus (God of the sky)
What are the 4 classifications of ancient Greek tombs? - Answer✔️✔️-
1. Stelae/shafts- upright slab of stone with words/images
2. Kiones/columns- upright, for cremated remains
3. Trapazae- Square cut tombs
4. Naidia- temple like structures
What is a structure, room or space in a mausoleum or other
building containing niches or recesses used to hold cremated
remains? - Answer✔️✔️-Columbarium
Who is the direct ancestor of the undertaker and modern funeral
director ? - Answer✔️✔️-Libitanarious
Sumptuary Laws prohibited excessive what? - Answer✔️✔️-Spending
During the time of Constantine, who was given a proper burial? -
Answer✔️✔️-All; upper, middle and lower class
What color did people of royalty wear when buried? - Answer✔️✔️-
purple
Which people were subject to a stake through the heart at the time
of burial? - Answer✔️✔️-People convicted of FELO DE SE ("a murder
of one's self")
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