History of Funeral Service AAMI UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Kher-heb - CORRECT ANSWER - Egyptian High Priest or Supervisor
Surgeon - CORRECT ANSWER - Head Embalmer
Scribe - CORRECT ANSWER - Made mark for incision
Parachistes - CORRECT ANSWER - Made first incision
Pollinctors - CORRECT ANSWER - Annointed the body
Sarcophagus - CORRECT ANSWER - Large ornate Egyptian Coffin
Anthropoid - CORRECT ANSWER - Man shaped coffin
Necropolis - CORRECT ANSWER - city of the dead
Herodotus - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of history
Mesta - CORRECT ANSWER - Man Headed
Hapi - CORRECT ANSWER - Dog Headed
Tuamtef - CORRECT ANSWER - Jackal Headed
,Qebehsenuef - CORRECT ANSWER - Hawk Headed
Evisceration - CORRECT ANSWER - Removal of soft organs
Dry Burial - CORRECT ANSWER - Bodies shrouded in coarse cloth and laid upon beds
of charcoal under six or eight feet of sand on the edge of the great plain at Memphis, and above
the reach of the flooding Nile
Greeks - CORRECT ANSWER - Felt death was one of the harshest parts of life
Bier - CORRECT ANSWER - hand stretcher used to transport body.
Dirge Singers - CORRECT ANSWER - Greek funerals used these in the procession.
Stelae - CORRECT ANSWER - Shafts
Kiones - CORRECT ANSWER - Columns
Trapezae - CORRECT ANSWER - Square Cut Tombs
Naidia - CORRECT ANSWER - temple like tombs
Suttee - CORRECT ANSWER - the Hindu custom of cremating a widow on her husband's
funeral pyre
Libitinarius - CORRECT ANSWER - head undertaker in ancient Rome; the secular role
model for today's funeral director; conducted his business at the temple of Libitina where deaths
were also registered.
, Pollinctors - CORRECT ANSWER - slaves or employees of the Libitanarius
Designator - CORRECT ANSWER - master of ceremonies and director of the ancient
Roman funeral procession
Praeco / Crier - CORRECT ANSWER - a special funeral functionary in Ancient Rome
who summoned participants to a public funeral
Libitina - CORRECT ANSWER - the ancient Roman goddess of corpses and funerals
Professional Mourners - CORRECT ANSWER - usually women hired for the funeral who
shrieked and beat their breasts, tearing their hair and garments and scratching their faces.
Animistic View - CORRECT ANSWER - early Roman view of the afterlife which
emphasizes the soul as the vital principle. The soul at death hovered around the place of burial
and required constant attention of the descendants to be happy. Neglect would bring evil upon
them.
Epicureans - CORRECT ANSWER - The body and soul were comprised of atoms which
disintegrated at death and the afterlife was no different than before life.
Constantine - CORRECT ANSWER - Introduced socialist burial / government
involvement to prevent overpricing.
Hebrew Burial - CORRECT ANSWER - Uncoffined
Hebrew Mourners - CORRECT ANSWER - Stripped down to loincloth, cut hair, shaved.
Hebrew Death Practice - CORRECT ANSWER - Fasted for day of death.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Kher-heb - CORRECT ANSWER - Egyptian High Priest or Supervisor
Surgeon - CORRECT ANSWER - Head Embalmer
Scribe - CORRECT ANSWER - Made mark for incision
Parachistes - CORRECT ANSWER - Made first incision
Pollinctors - CORRECT ANSWER - Annointed the body
Sarcophagus - CORRECT ANSWER - Large ornate Egyptian Coffin
Anthropoid - CORRECT ANSWER - Man shaped coffin
Necropolis - CORRECT ANSWER - city of the dead
Herodotus - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of history
Mesta - CORRECT ANSWER - Man Headed
Hapi - CORRECT ANSWER - Dog Headed
Tuamtef - CORRECT ANSWER - Jackal Headed
,Qebehsenuef - CORRECT ANSWER - Hawk Headed
Evisceration - CORRECT ANSWER - Removal of soft organs
Dry Burial - CORRECT ANSWER - Bodies shrouded in coarse cloth and laid upon beds
of charcoal under six or eight feet of sand on the edge of the great plain at Memphis, and above
the reach of the flooding Nile
Greeks - CORRECT ANSWER - Felt death was one of the harshest parts of life
Bier - CORRECT ANSWER - hand stretcher used to transport body.
Dirge Singers - CORRECT ANSWER - Greek funerals used these in the procession.
Stelae - CORRECT ANSWER - Shafts
Kiones - CORRECT ANSWER - Columns
Trapezae - CORRECT ANSWER - Square Cut Tombs
Naidia - CORRECT ANSWER - temple like tombs
Suttee - CORRECT ANSWER - the Hindu custom of cremating a widow on her husband's
funeral pyre
Libitinarius - CORRECT ANSWER - head undertaker in ancient Rome; the secular role
model for today's funeral director; conducted his business at the temple of Libitina where deaths
were also registered.
, Pollinctors - CORRECT ANSWER - slaves or employees of the Libitanarius
Designator - CORRECT ANSWER - master of ceremonies and director of the ancient
Roman funeral procession
Praeco / Crier - CORRECT ANSWER - a special funeral functionary in Ancient Rome
who summoned participants to a public funeral
Libitina - CORRECT ANSWER - the ancient Roman goddess of corpses and funerals
Professional Mourners - CORRECT ANSWER - usually women hired for the funeral who
shrieked and beat their breasts, tearing their hair and garments and scratching their faces.
Animistic View - CORRECT ANSWER - early Roman view of the afterlife which
emphasizes the soul as the vital principle. The soul at death hovered around the place of burial
and required constant attention of the descendants to be happy. Neglect would bring evil upon
them.
Epicureans - CORRECT ANSWER - The body and soul were comprised of atoms which
disintegrated at death and the afterlife was no different than before life.
Constantine - CORRECT ANSWER - Introduced socialist burial / government
involvement to prevent overpricing.
Hebrew Burial - CORRECT ANSWER - Uncoffined
Hebrew Mourners - CORRECT ANSWER - Stripped down to loincloth, cut hair, shaved.
Hebrew Death Practice - CORRECT ANSWER - Fasted for day of death.
